Astounding project "Mayak" to launch the brightest star in the night sky as an artificial satellite
Apart from the sun, the brightest of the stars visible from the earth is the asteroid alpha "Sirius"is. However, the Russian cloud funding siteBOOMSTARTERProject seeking funds at "MayakBy Sirius, Sirius may be deprived of the brightest shining star in the universe.
Russian crowdfunded reflector satellite aims to be "brightest star in the sky" | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/russian-crowdfunded-reflector-satellite-aims-to-be-brightest-star-in-the-sky/
A group of engineers and astronomical fans belonging to the Mechanical Engineering Division of the University of Moscow launched a project called "Mayak" at BOOMSTARTER, a Russian cloud funding site. The satellite that this project is about to launch is a 16 square meter "tetrahedron" which is covered entirely by reflecting mirror "and is placed in a low orbit of about 600 km from the ground.
Looks like this. If the tetrahedron created in Mayak reflects the sun 's light on orbit, it seems to be brighter than any star shining in the night sky.
In addition, the Mayak project is planning to release a smartphone application that allows you to check the position of the tetrahedron that you launched at any time.
According to the Mayak project page "Soyuz 2I confirmed the possibility of launch in the middle of 2016 by rocket ", I can see that the launch is close to immediate, not a few years later.
The timeline of such Mayak project looks like this. It was in 2016 that we started recruiting funds on BOOMSTARTER, but it seems that the project itself started from 2014. In addition, Mayak aims to adopt the experimental atmospheric braking system, and if it is installed, it will be possible to recover tetrahedron satellites again into the atmosphere without using a reverse propelling rocket It seems that it may be.
In Russia in 1993 there was a reflection disk "Znamya" which was coated with aluminum on plastic 65 ft. (About 20 meters) in the Meer Space Station. It was brought in to test whether "it is possible to pour the sunlight on the Earth's night by reflecting the sun's light". These ideas were born from the idea that "if you collect reflective mirrors on orbit it will be possible to control the length of sunlight falling down", it is considered to be useful at the time of construction and disasters at the time It was. The idea itself of irradiating the sun on the earth using the orbital reflector itself is a German rocket engineerHermann ObertoIt was said that it was planned in the 1920s.
The project has already collected 1.8 million Russian rubles (about 2.8 million yen) at the time of article creation and succeeded in gathering 120% of the target funds.
Космический спутник «Маяк» - Boomstarter
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