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Rocket Lab’s disco ball satellite has plunged back to Earth — and some aren’t sad to see it go


Rocket Lab’s disco ball satellite has plunged back to Earth — and some aren’t sad to see it go In January, US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab stealthily launched a small “disco ball” satellite into orbit as part of a cosmic art project aimed at inspiring people to come together and look up at the sky. But after just two months in space, the satellite — called the Humanity Star — has fallen back to Earth and burned up in the planet’s atmosphere. It brings a premature end to the probe’s life, which turned out to be more controversial than the company had hoped. No satellite in lower Earth orbit lasts forever.   More



(Source: The Verge - Mar 23)

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