Neil Freiman

Light as faint as a full moon has been documented to change human sleep patterns.

Toby, turns out when you turn night into day, there are some secondary consequences, but it is provocative.

Right.

It's just not powerful enough to get solar powers doing anything of productive use.

Let's go over the plan, though, because this is they're applying to the FCC.

The FCC could well approve this.

So they are going to send up, if it gets approved, a satellite roughly the size of a dorm fridge.

And then once it's in space, about 400 miles up.

It is going to unfurl a square mirror that's nearly 60 feet wide.

Now, this prototype is actually smaller than the eventual bigger satellites that they want to launch.

Those are nearly 180 feet wide.

And the timeline, which of course is going to be hit, is that by 2035, they are going to be sending up 50,000 satellites that will deploy these massive mirrors to beam light onto areas of the Earth that are dark.

And hopefully they're going to get customers like

farms or industrial sites that just want a little more light or maybe cities that don't have street lights.

That's another one of their customers they're going after.

Now, even the skeptics of this company say there might be one very promising and exciting use case, and that is on the moon.

The moon has two week long nights.

It doesn't have the atmosphere that scatters the sun's rays.

So it could be a feasible plan on the moon and not Earth.

We just got to get there first.