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The Kenyan lawyer taking on US-based firm trying to sell sunlight from space
Beatrice Kioko, better known as Betty Kioko, is a Kenyan trained lawyer in her 30s based in Munich, Germany, works in international law and space policy at the European Southern Observatory and advocates for the protection of dark and quiet skies against light pollution from satellites and space based projects.
Betty Kioko has spent weeks building her case against a US company that looks to prolong daylight by four hours.
“The company [Reflect Orbital] wants to put a giant mirror in space. The mirror would bounce sunlight back down to Earth and stretch daylight by up to four extra hours in some places,” says the Kenyan lawyer in her 30s, who lives in Germany. “Who needs four extra hours?”
