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Article: EYES ON THE SKIES.(children work on Starshine 3 artificial satellite, which will be launched into space)
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- U.S. Kids
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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Would you like to see a satellite in space? You can, thanks to kids who helped polish one until it was as bright as they are!
Kids all around the world polished small metal disks until they shone like mirrors. More than a thousand of these small mirrors will ride on a satellite called Starshine 3 when it is launched later this summer. They will make the satellite visible from earth.
"It's like a giant disco ball," says Kyle Butler, nine, a student at Bay Meadows Elementary School in Orlando, Florida. Bay Meadows is one of the schools that joined the Starshine 3 project. "It has really bright mirrors so when it goes up in space the sun will reflect on it ...