“[…] last April the Russian start-up Avant Space announced it had successfully deployed what it billed to be the “first space media satellite” into Earth orbit. The prototype was a technology demonstration for a planned fleet of small, low-cost, laser-equipped satellites designed to emblazon Earth’s sky with corporate logos, QR codes and other consumer-culture ephemera.

[…] An investor pitch shared with Scientific American shows that the two companies aim to deploy between 200 and 400 laser-fitted small satellites into an orbit roughly 370 miles above Earth’s surface before the end of this decade. Such a swarm could beam ads down toward our planet for potentially hours each and every day. Their vision, Sitnikov says, is ‘to prove that space is not just for scientists, not just for the military—it is entertainment, too. And people like entertainment.’” - Scientific American