The Orbital Reflector should have been a celestial triumph. Until the US president and his government shutdown became involved
Can you be a bit more specific? Well, it should have been a 30-metre-long balloon made of plastic sheeting coated with shimmering titanium dioxide and inflated into a giant crystal shard that would orbit 350 miles above the Earth and be visible to all humanity, like a new star in the night sky.
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