Who was Icarus and why did you name a satellite after him?
Icarus, son of Daedilus, is a character from Greek mythology. When his father built him a pair of wax wings to escape from their island imprisonment, he warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun so the wax would not melt. Icarus did not listen to his father, flew too close to the hot sun, and plunged to his death in the sea. The thought is that the Icarus satellite will burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere at the end of its lifetime.
