On Wednesday, the New Zealand rocket company rocket Lab announced that it launched a secret satellite to space aboard the test flight of its Electron rocket over the weekend.*
That satellite, known as the Humanity Star, "is expected to become the brightest thing in the night sky," rocket Lab said in a statement.
The Humanity Star is shaped like a geodesic sphere and is designed to spin around and around, catching the light of the sun and reflecting it back down onto Earth.*
Of course, rocket Lab will need to wait for actual sightings of the satellite from the ground in order to confirm that it's working as expected. Read more...