{"id":1044238,"date":"2026-10-17T08:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044238"},"modified":"2026-10-17T08:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:49:28","slug":"us-startup-plans-to-sell-sunlight-at-night-with-help-from-indias-skyroot-aerospace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/17\/us-startup-plans-to-sell-sunlight-at-night-with-help-from-indias-skyroot-aerospace\/","title":{"rendered":"US startup plans to sell sunlight at night with help from India&#8217;s Skyroot Aerospace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American space technology company plans to sell on-demand sunlight at night at precise locations on Earth by placing massive reflecting mirrors in orbit, using launch services from India&#8217;s Skyroot Aerospace.<\/p>\n<p>California-based Reflect Orbital plans to launch a constellation of satellites to provide on-demand sunlight for services such as illuminating disaster zones for search and rescue operations and extending power generation at solar farms.<\/p>\n<p>The start-up has signed a contract with Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace for two launches onboard its Vikram rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American space technology company plans to sell on-demand sunlight at night at precise locations on Earth by placing massive reflecting mirrors in orbit, using launch services from India&#8217;s Skyroot Aerospace. California-based Reflect Orbital plans to launch a constellation of satellites to provide on-demand sunlight for services such as illuminating disaster zones for search and rescue operations and extending power generation at solar farms. The start-up has signed a contract with Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace for two launches onboard its Vikram rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044260,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044238\/revisions\/1044260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}