In a February 2016 article on iflscience.com, Jonathan O'Callaghan
reports on the concern by amateur and professional astronomers
over a crowd-funded project out of Moscow State University to
launch a satellite that would unfurl a 16 square metre solar reflector
to make it the brightest star in the sky apart from the Sun.
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Originally Posted by Jonathan O'Callaghan, iflscience.com
A team of Russian scientists is planning to launch a unique satellite into orbit, with the goal of making it the brightest star in our skies (aside from the Sun, of course) with the use of a giant reflective sheet of material. But there are some possible negative consequences if this ever gets off the ground, notably for amateur and professional astronomers alike.
The team of engineers behind this project, from Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University (MAMI), is running a crowdfunding campaign on the platform Boomstarter. The spacecraft is known as “Mayak,” or “Beacon” in English, and they have raised more than 1.7 million rubles ($22,000.) Having met their funding goal, they are now aiming for a launch in summer this year on a Soyuz-2 rocket with the assistance of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency.
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Article here -
http://www.iflscience.com/space/russ...star-night-sky