Humanity has long looked upward to read the stars; now, for the first time, a regulatory body has sanctioned a plan to write back. The FCC's approval of Reflect Orbital's Eärendil-1 satellite — a giant mirror designed to redirect sunlight onto Earth on command — marks a quiet but consequential threshold: the deliberate, commercial transformation of the night sky into infrastructure. What begins as a single test launch in late 2026 carries within it the blueprint for 50,000 such mirrors by 2035, a scale that would make the ancient, unmediated darkness above us a memory rather than a given.