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59 square feet? or 59 ft on an edge? If it's 59 feet on an edge and there's 50,000 of them, at full efficiency (100% reflectivity) that's 174,000,000 square feet, or less than 6.5 square miles. Even fully deployed this will not illuminate a quarter of Manhattan at full sunlight. They're testing one unit. It will not be 100% efficient, nor will it even likely work. Let them play with their toys. This concept is no threat to the night sky overall, which has already been ruined by streaks from Elon's satellites zipping by the thousands. BTW, there are already about 10,700 Starlink satellites in the sky and each has a surface area of 1248 square feet, for a total of 13,353,600 square feet of reflective junk just from him alone. And it's spread out everywhere, inescapably blotting out the clear view of the sky. It drives astronomers nuts. They detest him. At least this thing would be all in one place, wrecking just one spot in the sky. No big whoop so far.