Rocket Lab founder and chief executive Peter Beck stands with the Humanity Star in New Zealand in November. (Rocket Lab via AP)Earlier this month, the New Zealand-based private spaceflight company Rocket Lab successfully delivered its first orbital payload. Until its destruction, the Humanity Star will twinkle so brilliantly it can be witnessed by observers below. “Wait for when the Humanity Star is overhead and take your loved ones outside to look up and reflect. Thousands of tiny satellites are about to go into space and possibly ruin it foreverChina's 9½-ton space lab will soon crash to Earth.

Source: Washington Post January 26, 2018 19:22 UTC