An inflatable, elongated diamond-shaped sculpture the length of a football field will orbit the Earth this autumn. The installation, titled Orbital Reflector, is the work of US artist Trevor Paglen and is intended to highlight issues of data protection and surveillance. The artist, Trevor Paglen, described it looking like the Big Dipper but will slowly move across the sky and it unlikely to collide with anything else The sculpture will be in sun-synchronous orbit and will eventually fall to Earth, burning up on re-entry. The artwork will be launched using one of Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets and is a collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art, which is exhibiting a prototype. A new study has found that people who are obese have more than twice as many risk factors for heart disease compared with those who are not.
An inflatable, elongated diamond-shaped sculpture the length of a football field will orbit the Earth this autumn. The installation, titled Orbital Reflector, is the work of US artist Trevor Paglen and is intended to highlight issues of data protection and surveillance. The sculpture will be in sun-synchronous orbit and will eventually fall to Earth, burning up on re-entry. The artwork will be launched using one of Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets and is a collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art, which is exhibiting a prototype. A new study has found that people who are obese have more than twice as many risk factors for heart disease compared with those who are not.