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Orbital Reflector

2018 sculpture by Trevor Paglen
VisualArtwork work_of_art Q53761314

Facts

16 properties
Instance of
work of art, artificial satellite[3]
Inception
2018[7]
Official website
www.orbitalreflector.com[11]
Website
www.orbitalreflector.com
Launch date
2018-12-03
Part of
SSO-A: SmallSat Express[4]
Country of origin
United States[6]
Creator
Trevor Paglen[2]
Funding scheme
crowdfunding[15]
Launch vehicle
Falcon 9 Block 5
Significant event
rocket launch, 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown (2018–2019), failure[9][10]
Space launch vehicle
Falcon 9 Block 5[5]
Sponsor
Nevada Museum of Art[12]
Start point
Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4 East[13]
Title
Orbital Reflector[14]
UTC date of spacecraft launch
December 3, 2018[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Orbital Reflector
🔖 Identifiers · 5
COSPAR ID
2018-099P
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11f5bxxc32
Kickstarter project ID
nevadaart/trevor-paglen-orbital-reflector
NSSDCA ID
2018-099P
SCN
43771

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🔗 Connections
Significant event 3
failure, 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown, rocket launch
Instance of 2
artificial satellite, work of art
Country of origin 1
United States
Creator 1
Trevor Paglen
Funding scheme 1
crowdfunding
Space launch vehicle 1
Falcon 9 Block 5
Sponsor 1
Nevada Museum of Art
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Summary

Orbital Reflector is a work of art[1].

Related Entities

artificial satellite Falcon 9 Block 5 United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . orbitalreflector.com. orbitalreflector.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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