RE: Casual Friday: Claiming Space in Space – or blocking out the stars

mcb1 — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 11:12:57 GMT

It's already fallen back and burnt up.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/22/17144208/rocket-lab-humanity-star-satellite-new-zealand-astronomy

It was a publicity stunt and the idea was to make it visible from earth.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16926426/rocket-lab-humanity-star-secret-satellite-electron-test-launch

Seems that they got the calculations worng and miscalculated the friction in low orbit, and it came back quicker than expected.

The launch was the last of the tests they had planned before taking paying customers loads.

I have to agree that there is a lot of junk out there, and I wonder when we'll see a "trash truck" sent to retrieve some of it, even if it simply to manipulate a re-entry so it burns up.

Mark