From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):
Look, up in the sky!
It’s a bird! It’s a plane!
No, it’s the Pepsi-Cola logo shining brightly in the evening sky, 300 miles above.
And it’s there to remind us that there may be no place too sacred, no sight too beautiful that someone can’t dream of exploiting it for personal gain.
That someone is a Russian company named StartRocket. Its vision is to launch thousands of tiny satellites into orbit, which it will maneuver to form the image of choice for the highest bidder, to be seen by all of us below … whether we want to or not.1
And it’s planning the first launch in 2021 — just two years from now.
Help stop “space billboards” by petitioning your U.S. House representative today at https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=33037.
Be assured — this is not a joke. It’s not even a new idea. In 1993, an American company proposed doing the same thing.
Fortunately, they backed off when PennEnvironment and our national network encouraged a public outcry against the idea and members of Congress, led by now-Sen. Edward Markey (Mass.), drafted legislation to make “space billboards” illegal.2
Now, it’s time again to mobilize the public to protect our skies, before space billboards get off the ground.
Tell your U.S. House representative: Say no to space billboards.
- Aaron Mamiit, “Pepsi, StartRocket team up to launch satellites for energy drink ad in night“, Digitaltrends.com, April 14, 2019.
- Edward Markey, “Introduction of Legislation Regarding Billboards in Space“, Congressional Record, July 1, 1993.
- Jeff Foust, “Pepsi drops plans to use orbital billboard“, Spacenews.com, April 14, 2019.
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