Earlier this month, the New Zealand-based private spaceflight company Rocket Lab successfully delivered its first orbital payload. Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket released, along with three commercial satellites, an art installation-as-satellite called the Humanity Star.
The satellite, a highly reflective 65-faced ball crafted of carbon fibre, will orbit Earth for nine months. Around October, its orbit will decay, and the satellite will disintegrate as it descends in the atmosphere.
Until its destruction, the Humanity Star will twinkle so brilliantly it can be witnessed by observers below.
It will be most visible at dawn or dusk, creating an effect Rocket Lab likened on its website to a “bright flashing shooting star”.
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