Hi all, This evening (Nov 17th) at 10:01 PM NZST marks the attempted launch of the second iteration of my satellite artwork The Weight of Information 2.0.
A small 2cm square pico-satellite named TWOi is packed on board the NASA mission NG-10 bound for Low Earth Orbit. The launch will take place from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, USA and a live stream starts at 9:30 PM NZST here: https://www.nasa.gov/live NG-10 is launched on a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket and is delivering a Cygnus space craft, CRS-10 to re-supply the space station. TWOi is packed with other pico-sats on board Zac Manchester's Kicksat2 deployer satellite - a small 3u cubesat which is on board the Cygnus. The Cygnus will dock with the ISS and once it has been unloaded and re-packed with return items will perform maneuvers in mid-february before deploying Kicksat2 to Low Earth orbit at 325km. 2 days after deployment TWOi will be deployed into autonomous orbit and is scheduled for re-entry a week later. During the autonomous orbit section of the flight public Meet 2 Delete events will be run at the Thomas King Observatory in Wellington NZ and other locations. If you would be interested in hosting a Meet 2 Delete event at your location in mid-feb/ early march 2019 please do get in touch [email protected] Details at http://julianpriest.org/twoi cheers /julian http://julianpriest.org Thomas King Observatory, 40 Salamanca Road, Wellington 6012, NZ _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://ada.net.nz/ Manage your list membership (Subscribe, Change to digest, Unsubscribe) http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list
