{"id":15523,"date":"2018-01-26T07:40:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T12:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15523"},"modified":"2018-01-26T07:40:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T12:40:32","slug":"catch-sight-of-the-humanity-star-while-it-is-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15523","title":{"rendered":"Catch sight of &#8220;The Humanity Star&#8221; while it is in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Electron rocket <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched last weekend<\/a> from New Zealand by <a href=\"https:\/\/rocketlabusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rocket Lab<\/a> had an unannounced payload aboard in addition to three small commercial spacecraft. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehumanitystar.com\/\" target=\"_d\">The Humanity Star<\/a> is a<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>a bright, blinking satellite now orbiting Earth, visible to the naked eye in the night sky. Launched on #StillTesting, The Humanity Star is designed to encourage everyone to look up and consider our place in the universe.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about the project:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Visible from space with the naked eye, the Humanity Star is a highly reflective satellite that blinks brightly across the night sky to create a shared experience for everyone on the planet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Created by Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck, the Humanity Star is a\u00a0geodesic sphere made from carbon fibre with 65 highly reflective panels.\u00a0It spins rapidly, reflecting the sun\u2019s rays back to Earth, creating a flashing light that can be seen against a backdrop of stars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes and visible from anywhere on the globe, the Humanity Star is designed to be a bright symbol and reminder to all on Earth about our fragile place in the universe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The sphere will stay in orbit for about 9 months. You can use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehumanitystar.com\/#tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tracking app<\/a>\u00a0on the website to find when it will pass over your location.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=videogames&amp;banner=01P8JKMA2YDAAKYSSSR2&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=884aaf5823d775bbba0b1eaff4d628ae&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electron rocket launched last weekend from New Zealand by Rocket Lab had an unannounced payload aboard in addition to three small commercial spacecraft. \u00a0The Humanity Star is a a bright, blinking satellite now orbiting Earth, visible to the naked eye in the night sky. Launched on #StillTesting, The Humanity Star is designed to encourage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catch sight of &#8220;The Humanity Star&#8221; while it is in orbit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-satellite-watching","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-42n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17435,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17435","url_meta":{"origin":15523,"position":0},"title":"Rocket launches: Chinese Long March-2D + Soyuz-2.1a","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of launches by China and Russia finish out a busy year of global rocket traffic: ** Chinese Long March-2D\/YZ-3 (Chang Zheng-2D\/YZ-3) rocket launch today with six atmospheric environment research satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center - https:\/\/youtu.be\/dl-rrz0bWDQ More at China launches six Yunhai-2 satellites for atmospheric environment\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Amateur\/Student Satellite&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Amateur\/Student Satellite","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/dl-rrz0bWDQ\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13670,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13670","url_meta":{"origin":15523,"position":1},"title":"Videos of ten rocket launches this December worldwide","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Lots of launches worldwide this month. 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