We put 480 million copper needles in orbit around Earth. π‘ . . . In 1963, MIT's Lincoln Lab successfully deployed Project West Ford β hair-thin copper wires meant to form a radio-reflective ring around the planet. Astronomers were furious. Most needles fell, but clumps still circle Earth today, cataloged by NORAD as debris that will not come down for centuries.
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