First debris pieces from the Indian ASAT test of 27 March catalogued

Artist Trevor Paglen and an early spherical precursor prototype of the balloon (now at the Nevada Museum of Art)

Orbital Reflector will be released in a circular,
575 km
altitude, sun-synchronous orbit with an orbital inclination of 97.6
degrees. Because
Orbital Reflector is oblong, and because of the orientation of its orbital plane with respect to the sun, the SRP surface will vary between (almost) minimum and maximum values over one orbit. It’s a project about public space, and a project about who gets to exercise power over our planetary commons, and on what terms”
In other words,
Orbital Reflector is not just there to reflect light to people on Earth; it is also
meant to make people reflect, pondering questions such as ”
who owns space?”

Source: sattrackcam.blogspot.com