Billboards in Space?

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You're outside, watching for shooting stars-when suddenly, you notice a Pepsi logo in the sky. It sounds bizarre, but it could happen in 2021. A Russian company called StartRocket recently announced that it's building satellites that can project ads into space at night. Each ad would be roughly the size of a half-moon and would be visible for six minutes at a time, mainly above densely populated cities. So far, PepsiCo has conducted an exploratory test, and Start-Rocket says the technology could also potentially be used to broadcast emergency messages or promote big events, such as the...

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