Quadibloc wrote:


I'm surprised that the United States doesn't have laws prohibiting the
launch of such payloads by private launch operators. After all, I'm sure
they have restrictions on launching, say, Earth observation satellites
with mirrors above a certain size.

In what way is this contraption worse than one Iridium satellite?
And there are 88 of them, right?

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