Episode
902-Lighting Up The Night
- Podcast
- Travelers In The Night
- Published
- Jun 5, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 121
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Summary
A start up company Reflect Orbital is proposing to launch 50,000 satellite mirrors by 2035 to illuminate solar panels on Earth all night long. This would be devastating for human sleep cycles, birds, insects, plants and many of the biological systems of organisms on which we all depend.