Space Industry

Stop Calling Space Mirrors ‘Green Energy’. They Are the Death of the Night Sky.

📅 August 15, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

Reflect Orbital’s plan to use giant space mirrors to beam solar power to Earth at night sounds like a climate miracle. But a recent simulation reveals a terrifying downside: the total eradication of natural darkness. We are trading the stars for a few extra megawatts, disrupting ecosystems, astronomy, and human circadian rhythms in the process.

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NASA’s ‘Rescue Mission’ Is a Beta Test for the Most Valuable Industry Nobody’s Talking About

📅 July 7, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

NASA’s robotic mission to save the Swift telescope looks like a feel-good rescue story. It’s not. It’s a live beta test for orbital servicing — a capability that could turn 36,000 pieces of space junk into a resource pool and create a trillion-dollar maintenance economy in orbit. The first company to scale this won’t just save satellites. It’ll own the infrastructure layer of space.

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