TechEdSat-11
Orbital Group Art Project
2024 - ongoing
Low Earth Orbit
Facts:
TechEdSat-11
Orbital Group Art Project
The TechEdSat-11 spacecraft is the host of our largest collective art project yet. In true 'Golden Record' style, this innovative NASA technology demonstration mission hosts its own golden plaque featuring art contributions spanning generations and continents, each inspired by Carl Sagan's original Voyager Golden Record.
This mission is a collaboration between The Spacecraft Agency, NASA Ames Research Center and Draw Together. It was launched on July 3rd 2024 onboard a Firefly Alpha Rocket as part of the 'Noise of Summer' mission.
Contributions:
Draw Together
"What's up, Universe!" - The Big Space Share
Lois Rosson
Crop Rotation
Debra Bilodeau
Poem
Luke Idziak
Surface As Sensors Orbital Micro Experiment
Arno Geens
AI-X5
Adarsh Deepak
Infunity Lotus
Gordon Kray
Untitled
Johanna Poethig
Echinacea in Space
Terrestrial Ambassador
Paul Salveson
Untitled
Preethi Kumaresan
Hydrogen Wave Forms
Plant Diversity
Quantum Entanglement
"What's up, Universe" - The Big Space Share
Draw Together
Kids from five DrawTogether Classrooms around the United States created drawings to share with the rest of the universe - symbols that capture whatever they think are the most meaningful, wonderful or important parts of life in our world.
Laser etched anodised aluminium spacecraft body panel.
+/- 10 x 2 cm.
Crop Rotation
Lois Rosson
"In 2020, I inherited a pouch of lettuce seeds flown on the International Space Station. After growing the seeds into mature plants and producing several life drawings, their image is returning to space onboard a NASA satellite.
Laser etched anodised aluminium spacecraft body panel.
+/- 10 x 10 cm.
Poem
D.E. Bilodeau
this is of earth already among the stars
a charm in her orbital bracelet
an offering dredged of her insides
as everything we've ever known
all a miracle of fire
many of us share traditions of burning
for cleansing and sacrificial purposes
star smoke streak smudge
a candle blown out.
I___you___we___make
a wish
the world over
"for what was is"
need not be.
Laser etched anodised aluminium spacecraft body panel.
+/- 3 x 3 cm.
Surfaces As Sensors Orbital Micro Experiment
Luke Idziak
Layers:
1. ISS germinated lettuce
2. Radiochromic film
3. Chitin Shielding
Lettuce, radiochromic film, chitin.
+/- 1 x 2 cm.
AI-X5
Arno Geens
An elegant and simple prompt. Two words...
"spacecraft" and "cosmos"
What would DALL-E imagine?
AI-X5 is the first AI-generated artwork in space.
Laser etched anodised aluminium spacecraft body panel.
2 x +- 3 x 3 cm.
Infunity Lotus
Adarsh Deepak
Infunity Lotus
Laser etched anodised aluminium spacecraft body panel.
+- 2 x 2 cm.
Untitled
Gordon Kray
Untitled
Laser etched anodised aluminium spacecraft body panel.
+- 2 x 3 cm.
Echinacea in Space
Terrestrial Ambassador
Johanna Poethig
Echinacea in Space
&
Terrestrial Ambassador
Laser etched anodised aluminium spacecraft body panel.
+- 2 x 3 cm.
Untitled
Paul Salveson
Untitled
Laser etched anodised aluminium spacecraft body panel.
+- 1 x 2 cm.
Plant Diversity
Preethi Kumaresan
Plant Diversity
Laser etched anodised aluminium spacecraft body panel.
+- 10 x 4 cm.
Thank you:
TechEdSat-11 mission
TechEdSat-11 is a 6U cubesat that will function as a high-temperature, accurate deorbit reentry nanosatellite.
Like several TechEdSat missions before it, this mission is demonstrating the exo-brake technology in its largest iteration to date. The exo-brake is designed to deploy an umbrella-like "brake" to increase drag and take a small satellite out of orbit. In this mission, the exo-brake can be controlled or modulated by commands from the ground in order to target a re-entry point. In the future, this could enable sample return missions from orbit and future planetary missions?
Additionally, it hosts the DCS Use Concept Validation project to determine if satellites, primarily small satellites in low earth orbit, can successfully interface with the data collection system (DCS) receivers and thus provide low-rate service to satellite users.