1. United States
2. Ind.
3. Letter

Dear Representative, Giant mirrors in orbit, reflecting sunlight onto the ground for paying customers. This is not science fiction. The FCC has licensed Reflect Orbital to launch a test satellite with a mirror roughly 60 feet across, and the company's stated goal is 50,000 or more of these by 2035. Why is a private company being allowed to decide how much light reaches a given place on Earth? The environmental consequences are serious and largely unstudied: • Wildlife depends on natural cycles of light and dark for migration, feeding, breeding, and pollination. Artificial light at night already disrupts these systems. • Plants respond to day length. Altering it at scale affects ecosystems and agriculture. • Humans are affected too. Disrupted darkness harms sleep and health. • Astronomers have warned these mirrors would be far worse for the night sky than existing satellite constellations. The FCC approved this launch while saying these concerns belong to other agencies. That means no one is actually responsible for the environmental and public health review. That is a failure of oversight, and it falls on Congress to fix. We have already seen what happens when critical infrastructure sits in one private individual's hands. Elon Musk's personal decisions about Starlink coverage in Ukraine affected military operations in an active war. One executive should never hold that kind of power. Control over sunlight itself is a far larger version of the same problem. I am asking you to: • Require full environmental and public health review before any orbital mirror is deployed. • Assign clear regulatory authority so no agency can disclaim responsibility. • Prohibit commercial control of illumination over populated or ecologically sensitive areas without public approval. Either legislate or leave office. Your constituents are tired of watching Congress react only after the damage is done. Sincerely, A Voting Constituent