Ordering Sunlight as a Service

A startup is proposing to sell hours of reflected sunlight by deploying mirror‑bearing satellites that concentrate daylight on targeted ground patches, with a prototype already filed with the FCC and business plans to scale to thousands of satellites. The model treats sunlight as a purchasable, schedulable service for events, emergency lighting, and even supplemental power for solar farms. — If realized, this turns a planetary common (nighttime darkness/daylight cycles) into a commercial service, forcing new regulatory, environmental, equity, and infrastructure conversations about who controls and pays for engineered night light.