From: redin@lysator.liu.se (Magnus Redin)
Subject: Re: Space Marketing would be wonderfull.
Organization: Lysator ACS at Linkoping University
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fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) writes:
>In the New York Times on Sunday May 9th 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
>1495 Atmbree Rd., Suite 600
>Rosewell, GA 30076
>(404)-442-9682



>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/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
>      kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov  (713) 483-4368

>                  "HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH
>                    FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON
>                           JULY 1969, A.D.
>                  WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND."
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