<p>We know that last year, space X rocket took orbital reflector with it into the space. But what might be the reason behind launching this weird object into the space? Does it do any work there?
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2019-10-07T07:41:38.333Z
There's a somewhat related but unanswered question in Space SE: [Attitude of the upcoming “Orbital Reflector”; will it result in good visibility?](https://space.stackexchange.com/q/30878/12102). Space SE is a good site to ask this question, since it's about launching an artificial satellite into low Earth orbit for artistic purposes, not about Astronomy proper. I'm voting to close as off-topic. That doesn't mean it's a bad question, just that it's not on-topic in Astronomy SE. It might be a good idea to simply post this there, and then delete it here; faster than closing and possible migration
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2019-10-07T07:43:14.640Z
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is not about Astronomy as defined in the help center https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic
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Reason for Orbital Reflector
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# Reason for Orbital Reflector

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-10-07)

We know that last year, space X rocket took orbital reflector with it into the space. But what might be the reason behind launching this weird object into the space? Does it do any work there?
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/2IS6E.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/2IS6E.jpg)

**Tags:** earth, artificial-satellite, near-earth-object

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: There's a somewhat related but unanswered question in Space SE: [Attitude of the upcoming “Orbital Reflector”; will it result in good visibility?](https://space.stackexchange.com/q/30878/12102). Space SE is a good site to ask this question, since it's about launching an artificial satellite into low Earth orbit for artistic purposes, not about Astronomy proper. I'm voting to close as off-topic. That doesn't mean it's a bad question, just that it's not on-topic in Astronomy SE. It might be a good idea to simply post this there, and then delete it here; faster than closing and possible migration  
> **username_1**: I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is not about Astronomy as defined in the help center https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic  

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