File talk:Black Knight Satellite.jpg

The name and description of this image should be changed. This is not any "Black Knight satellite". It's a piece of thermal blanket that got dislodged from the International Space Station during STS-88 in December 1998, when the Unity and Zarya modules were joined together. It was tracked for a week before its orbit decayed and it burned up in the atmosphere. A bunch of conspiracy theorists then seized upon this single out-of-context still to promote their favorite nonsense. Do not indulge them here. Full details of the story are given in http://www.jamesoberg.com/sts88_and-black-knight.pdf . 2601:647:4400:AC0:28F9:9A01:C74A:17A0 (talk) 05:26, 30 November 2015 (UTC)