The satellite, not much bigger than a large beach ball, is a geodesic sphere made from carbon fiber with 65 reflective panels. It is designed to spin rapidly and reflect the sun’s light back to ...

A highly reflective sphere has been placed in orbit by a New Zealand-launched rocket. Akin to a giant "disco ball", the object should be visible to the naked eye as it sweeps across a twilight sky.

LARES-2’s structure is disarmingly simple: it is a sphere of metal covered with 303 reflectors, with no on-board electronics or navigation control. The disco-ball-like design is similar to that ...

Blocking microwave reflection is an important ... "You can picture the geometry of the hollow sphere monolayer as that of Christmas cake decoration balls compactly filled in a Petri dish ...

So, what exactly is an integrating sphere? Put simply, it's a hollow sphere which has its internal surface prepared with a diffusely reflective coating and features a number of ports for either ...