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  • FUTURES

The Clear Space Foundation

Making a sale.
By
  1. Jeff Hecht

    1. Jeff Hecht makes his living by writing about real science and technology, and exercises his imagination by writing science fiction. His latest book is Lasers, Death Rays, and the Long, Strange Quest for the Ultimate Weapon.

Ghostly pairs of binoculars glow in the reflected light of explosions in space

Illustration by Jacey

When Andy arrived for the weekly sales meeting, the company’s latest rocket launch was playing on his boss’s wall screen. The engines roaring to life and the rocket rising slowly into the sky made a great sales promotion. “Linking the World Through the Sky” followed, the video showing hundreds of company-launched communications satellites arcing slowly across the sky in their orbits, glittering so brightly when sunlight hit them that he couldn’t see the fixed stars.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02650-z

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