Elon Musk’s rocket company has reached an agreement with the Canadian Geometric Energy Corporation
The nanosatellite will have screens where advertisements will be displayed, which in turn will be broadcast on YouTube or Twitch albanian email address.
Space is no longer simply a territory of exploration for scientific purposes, but it fulfills commercial aspirations on which productive activities such as tourism are drawn. This is evidenced by the recent trips of Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic or Jeff Bezos aboard the Blue Origin ships, projects that respond to the personal fulfillment of these millionaires, but that inaugurate a different way of conceiving outer space, considered as a extra source of resources and one more stop in human evolution. All this, while the Earth declares its own climate emergency, as has been expressed in the recent UN IPCC report, which attributes the deterioration of the planet to the human being.
Elon Musk and SpaceX do not want to travel to space, they seek to exploit it commercially
However, this will not delay plans that some companies have to establish new business models beyond the atmosphere. In the case of Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, it has been the very tycoons who lead these companies who have participated in space expeditions, clad in astronaut suits. The example of SpaceX, which completes the triad of new space explorers – formerly private, now public – is different, because its CEO and Founder, Elon Musk, has other plans for the company that go beyond the purely experiential of a trip to the world. room for wealthy pockets.
The best example is the agreement that the Californian company has signed with the Canadian company Geometric Energy Corporation to place advertising in space using a satellite. According to Samuel Reid, CEO of the company, in an interview with Business Insider, he is building a CubeSat satellite with SpaceX that will be covered with screens where advertisements, company logos or digital art will be displayed, that is, an artifact with a fully marketable surface.
CubeSats are nanosatellites that weigh no more than a kilo and a half and have been used for years in university settings to experiment in space, but over time they have become an affordable alternative for all types of companies. While a medium or large satellite can take between 5 and 15 years to develop, the CubeSats have an execution period that does not exceed one year and require an investment of half a million euros compared to the 500 million euros that a satellite can cost conventional. Likewise, if a nanosatellite unit is lost or fails, it is easier to replace with another and the replacement is achieved in a shorter period of time socialposts.
