re space marketing would be wonderfull fox graphics cs nyu edu david fox writes in the new york times on sunday may th in the week in review section there was a report of a group called space marketing in atlanta georgia who is planning to put up a one mile wide reflective earth orbiting satelite which will appear as large and as bright as the moon and carry some sort of advertising there was an editorial about this in the times the following tuesday i realy like this idea it would be wonderfull to see such a big bright satelite on the night sky i will even promise to try to buy whatever product it advertises to help this project please write to space marketing and encourage this project i sadly dosent have enough money to invest in it congresspeople space marketing can be reached at attn mike lawson public relations dept space marketing atmbree rd suite rosewell ga space advertisement in low earth orbit is very short term on the order of a few years before the orbit decays higher orbits last longer advertisers will certainly be aware of the environmental aspects of their advertising fred s argument is roughly akin to saying that it s bad to cut down trees so we shouldn t advertise in newspapers think that through fred picture this our space billboard is a large inflatable structure filled with bio degradable foam instead of gas it scoops up space debris as it orbits thus cleaning the space environment and bringing you the pause that refreshes at the same time because of the large drag coefficient it will de orbit safely burning up within a year embedded in the foam structure is a small re entry vehicle which does not burn up during entry it contains the electronics and propulsion system which may be refurbished and re used as well as space science experiments proposed and built by high school students in advertiser sponsored science fairs advertisers buy time on the billboard whose surface is made up of tiny mirrors controlled by the avionics package the avionics can reconfigure the mirrors to reflect different messages at different parts of the globe clever programming allows different languages to every country during orbital night the mirrors turn perpendicular to the surface and small lights are revealed the lights spell out messages for all to see ken jenks nasa jsc gm space shuttle program office kjenks gothamcity jsc nasa gov here men from the planet earth first set foot upon the moon july a d we came in peace for all mankind magnus redin lysator academic computer society redin lysator liu se mail magnus redin rydsv gen c link ping sweden phone sweden answering machine and
