Reflect Orbital Startup (3D) by Professor of How

A startup that will deliver sunlight from space on your demand in just 30 seconds. To whichever location you specify, sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie, right? But this is absolutely true. The name of this startup is Reflect Orbital. Imagine you are standing in pitch darkness outside your house at night, and instead of

ordering food from Zomato, you ordered sunshine directly from your phone. And exactly 30 seconds later, satellites orbiting hundreds of kilometers above in space focused giant mirrors on your exact location and beamed sunlight like a huge spotlight over a 5 km area around you. It would be as bright as a full moon night. The thing is, when it

is night in your city, the sun hides behind the Earth; but a satellite flying 625 kilometers above keeps seeing the sun even after sunset. It is just like how a mountain peak stays sunny for longer while the valley below turns dark. Although the US government has granted permission, the first satellite will launch this year. 2,000

sunlight requests have already arrived from 157 countries. And there is a plan to put 500 mirrors in the sky by 2035. But the real motive of this startup is not to light up the area in front of your house. Their mind-blowing plan is solar farms. Solar plants across the world become useless as soon as night

falls. But imagine if these space mirrors beamed sunlight directly onto those panels in the dark, then boom. Solar panels would start generating clean electricity for a few hours even after sunset. And that too without expensive battery storage. This idea is truly going to flip the global energy game.