If you look up at the night sky, you might just see the a new star glittering from space. Private satellite company Rocket Lab secretly carried a three-foot-wide carbon fibre ball into orbit on the back of its Electron rocket last week.
And, as The Verge points out, the satellite looks an awful lot like a disco ball.
Humanity Star
The vehicle carried three other satellites into space, but the company revealed yesterday that the disco ball, visible from Earth with naked eye and named The Humanity Star, had been hidden amongst the Electron’s cargo.
After nine months, the Earth’s gravity will drag the satellite into a fiery death when it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere. Rocket lab recommends stargazers in the U.S. look to the skies in March for the best view of the glitter ball.
You can track the location of the satellite online to make sure you step outside at exactly the right time.
More at: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/humanity-s...133118065.html
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