Questions tagged [space-art]
use of space exploration or space-access technology for primarily artistic purposes
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How to access satellite & debris data categorised by intended purpose?
I'm working on an art project which requires satellite data (active, inactive, as well as debris), so I was on Space Track. Does the NORAD ID or some other field help retrieve information about the ...
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Why is a cartoon character visible in the artist's rendition of the McDonnell Douglas X-33 proposal?
I think I have figured out the what, it’s just the who, when, where and why that I don’t have the answer to.
In 1995 during Phase I of the X-33 program NASA received proposals from Rockwell, McDonnell ...
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Original Mariner 4 data values
Scott Manley recently did a video where he shows how the first image of Mars from up close was done with pastels while the impatient engineers waited for the image processing department to finish ...
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New(?) flag of Baikonur
While watching a video of deployment of Soyuz spacecraft, I noticed a flag next to the launchpad, with sign 'Baikonur' and a graphic of Earth and several stars; one I didn't see anywhere else:
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Which "Rockwell van" ran incredibly rough for the first two minutes? (call to the radio program Car Talk)
A caller to the long-running NPR radio talk show Car Talk described a problem with their Rockwell van. While it started fine, it ran "incredibly rough" for the first two minutes.
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Who designed the cool-looking Orbita Molniya tracking station at Khabarovsk? What does it look like inside?
Wikipedia's Orbita (TV system) says:
Orbita (Russian: орбита) is a Soviet-Russian system of broadcasting and delivering TV signals via satellites. It is considered to be the first national network of ...
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Cartoon-like characters on the side of the Tianwen-1 Mars lander?
Scott Manley's excellent new video China's Mars Rover Zhurong Has Completed Its Primary Mission, Reaches New Milestone is chock-full of space-sleuthing goodies and interesting information about the ...
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Does the beeping satellite shown at the end of NASA Goddard videos represent any spacecraft in particular?
Just as an example, the end of the NASA Goddard video NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: Mission to Bennu has a double-beeping satellite at the end, which performs a flyby of the camera.
It's shiny and spherical and ...
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Could folks in space see giant projections of art on mountains like this one? Was this one seen or recorded?
Could folks in space, either space station astronauts in LEO or even future space tourists in suborbital arcs be able to see large projections like this on the sides of mountains?
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Origin, artist, and original purpose of this unusual NASA image from 1996 or earlier? (possibly related to Clementine)
Two astronomy questions below relate to Clementine and poking around I found Ice on the Bone Dry Moon which was
Written by Paul D. Spudis, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, Deputy Leader of ...
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Can we engrave on the Moon by focusing laser from the Earth?
I would like to know if it is possible to make an engraving or burning moon's surface by focusing high energy laser beam from earth?
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How did Scott Horowitz "hoist" the Mars Society's flag up STS-105's "mast"?
The medium.com's Retired NASA Astronaut Joins Crew That’s Building 21st Century Transportation Network says:
At NASA, (Scott J. Horowitz) was responsible for selecting SpaceX — the company run by ...
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Who proposed detonating gunpowder on the moon to prove a rocket reached it?
I remember reading a about some rocket pioneer who had proposed that if a rocket were launched to the moon, one way to prove that it had reached the moon would be to detonate a large quantity of ...
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Would Earth fireworks work on the Moon or on Mars?
Fireworks have had a very long history and have evolved into highly engineered devices with simultaneously excellent performance and reliability. Even small tweaks require research, testing, and are ...
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Which rocket was shown resupplying the ISS in Designated Survivor?
In the TV show Designated Survivor season 2 episode 12 (S2E12) The Final Frontier at 07:47 the following US rocket is shown launching a resupply mission to the ISS.
The rocket detonates during launch.
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How much do on-demand, artificial meteor showers cost these days?
On-demand, artificial meteor showers are discussed in
Artificial Shooting Stars - how could this possibly work (economically/technologically)?
Why would a box full of 1cm balls released into LEO be ...
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What is the blue and purple glitter dinosaur above NASA astronaut Robert Behnken in this video?
The NASA video Expedition 63 Inflight with New York Times, Fox News, and USA Today - July 7, 2020 includes NASA astronaut Dr. Robert Behnken, and above can be seen a blue and purple glitter covered ...
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Are there any photo(s) of International Space Station (ISS) captured from above its altitude? [duplicate]
Are there any attempts made to capture an image of the whole ISS in one take? Or is it not currently practically possible? If Soyuz, SpaceX Dragon, etc. have cameras installed on them, images can be ...
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What is this font used in Apollo / early Shuttle NASA documents? (possibly OT)
Seeking the name of a font used in Apollo NASA documentation and some early shuttle documents as well.
Examples:
from SSME Pocket Data Book
From Apollo 12 / SA 507 Flight Manual
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Does this image of 91-core OTRAG "asparagus-staging" show a real launch, or is it "space-art"?
This answer to Were there any non-state organizations to organize space flight and colonizations in the second half of the 20th century? mentions OTRAG and links to Astronautix's OTRAG page.
The ...
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Have astronauts in space suits ever taken selfies? If so, how?
Have astronauts in space suits ever taken selfies?
Were selfie sticks used?
If not, how was this feat accomplished?
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Do all US vice presidents get cool jackets?
The Ars Technica article Vice President may tell NASA to accelerate lunar landings starts with
"We're tired of generating PowerPoint journeys that don't go anywhere."
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How many non-crewed deep-space destinations have had intentional broadcasts of music from Earth?
@Ingolifs's answer to the question What was the last message to Opportunity today (13 Feb '19)? quotes ArsTechnica's Opportunity did not answer NASA’s final call, and it’s now lost to us:
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How did NASA's Deep Space Network encode and broadcast music to Opportunity?
@Ingolifs's answer to the question What was the last message to Opportunity today (13 Feb '19)? quotes ArsTechnica's Opportunity did not answer NASA’s final call, and it’s now lost to us:
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Who were the major manufacturers of the Apollo 11 rocket?
Organizing an exhibition around photographs from the 1969 launch and wanted to invite manufacturers.
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Was there once a semi-serious space-art project planning to use solar reflectors to put a spot of light on the crescent Moon?
Reading the question What are the effects of orbital reflectors and advertising on scientific observation and orbital debris? I am reminded of a story I read a while ago about an even in the past, ...
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Did New Horizons use its smaller medium-gain antenna for most/all downlinking of Pluto and Arrokoth flyby data?
Brian May's New Horizons video (below) was released at about the same time that the New Horizons spacecraft passed 2014 MU69 Arrokoth and includes a lot of technically meaningful graphics.
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Was New Horizons launched on a copper rocket?
Screenshots below are from Brian May's new music video Brian May - New Horizons (Ultima Thule Mix) [Official Music Video] The beginning shows the launch of a rocket.
I can't tell for sure if this is ...
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Has there ever been musical events or performances associated with deep-space spacecraft or their flyby maneuvers?
We've had several questions related to music being played (live, or recorded) in space:
Music played in space (6 answers)
How did Sergei Krikalev get (or build) the drum he is shown playing here? (no ...
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Is there really moon rock in this cathedral window? If so, how, and from where on the Moon?
This Tweet by NASA Space Flight Editor Ian Atkinson says:
Some pictures from the Cathedral before the event starts, they have a table set up with artifacts from Apollo 8, including the flown flight ...
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What is the name of this space museum in Russian and does it have a website and/or virtual tour site?
Enjoying the information and links in this answer I wanted to ask if these are real antennas now on display, or space art? But once I started clicking google maps I found that this is full blown space ...
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What celestial body did NASA carve and why is it eating a spacecraft?
The Mashable.com article No one carves a Halloween pumpkin like NASA engineers shows several interesting examples.
But this one I can't figure out. The caption reads only.
Om nom nom.
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Attitude of the upcoming "Orbital Reflector"; will it result in good visibility?
There's a new (passive solar) orbital reflector, called the Orbital Reflector.
While Mayak (Маяк) was a crowdfunded project at Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University and the Humanity Star ...
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This image of the Space Shuttle is truly beautiful, but is it real?
I saw this image in the Infobae article La NASA probará un paracaídas para posar naves espaciales en Marte ("NASA will test a parachute to place spaceships on Mars").
The image looks plausible to me, ...
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Design of 1970s era orbital fuel depot
Multiple concept art examples for a 1970s orbital fuel depot from Marshall Space Flight Center show cylindrical tanks perpendicular to a central core. But then at one end of the central core are ...
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How does this spinach-growing Mars lander design work?
@geoffc left a link in Chat to the extensive article in Nasa Spaceflight The Evolution of the Big Falcon Rocket. On the second page there is a bit of Mars vs Musk history:
Musk’s ambitions of doing ...
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What do these patterns on Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity represent, and how are they applied?
The NPR news article Virgin Galactic Space Plane Reaches New Heights In Test Flight links to the Virgin Galactic YouTube video VSS Unity | Third Rocket Powered Flight which is quite beautiful to watch!...
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What do these GPS-related emblems represent? Does one of them show "Marvin the Martian"?
The Wikipedia page linked in @OrganicMarble's answer about the Air Force Space and Missile Museum contains the image below, of a (now retired) GPS monitoring station. To the right of the station ...
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Puzzler; "who" are the members of this family of comet-visiting spacecraft?
In the video Once upon a time... Rosetta's grand finale (also in ESA Space Videos) mentioned in this answer there is a "family portrait" showing Rosetta along with previous comet-visiting spacecraft.
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Is this ISS artwork old but accurate? Was there a radiator that looked like this once?
Along with today's NPR.org news article NASA Needs Backup Plan To Maintain U.S. Presence At Space Station, Watchdog Says there is a big of ISS artwork of the ISS. The caption says:
International ...
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What ESA video contains this "family portrait" of comet-visiting spacecraft?
I don't use (or condone) FaceBook, but nonetheless I stumbled upon this page from a search: https://www.facebook.com/ISEE3Reboot/photos/a.801544933207256.1073741827.800538433307906/1384594101569000/?...
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Is the Hollywood "Enemy of the State" satellite at all based on a real satellite?
The page on the model maker Asylum FX's website shows some stills of a model used in the production of the movie Enemy of the State.
We fabricated a 15ft long satellite model for motion control ...
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Who is the NASA Space artist of this circa 1978 satellite montage? Does a key listing each item exist?
The Ars Technica article As mega-constellations loom, US seeks to manage space debris problem uses this beautiful drawing of current and future spacecraft from a circa 1978 perspective. It's been used ...
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What might this "NS" mean in this speculation about this Mars rover's future prospects?
The Reddit xkcd 695: apparently CERN scientists couldn't handle the sad ending contains the following image.
In the 2nd to last panel of the bottom added-on row, the text looks like it says
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Who is the artist of this image appearing in an article about a Russian space laser?
According to the Tech Times article Russia Constructing Powerful 'Space Laser' To Remove Some 500,000 Junk Items Orbiting The Earth:
Russia is still making its mark in space and it is doing so by ...
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Why was the "Presidential Panorama of Mars" called presidential?
From The Astronomy Picture of the Day for 2000 May 14 :
Explanation: Scroll right to unfold one of the great panoramas ever taken on the surface of Mars. For best viewing, click and hold the right ...
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What Soviet-era space-related film is this Nick Stevens tweet referring to?
@antzi's post in chat lead me to the Nick Stevens' Twitter account in which I found the following 9-Apr-2018 Tweet:
Soviet film, dramatized version of #Korolev and #Gagarin with the ADU-1000 Pluton ...
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Do you recognize these space artists who made this (possibly) first "paint-by-numbers" image of Mars?
Update! I've just run across the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory video Five Ways Mariner 4 Changed Mars Exploration and it mentions this "paint by numbers" representation of "the first digital image of ...
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Is there any way to tell which NASA rover this "rover" might be modeled after?
In the OK Go! YouTube video linked below, there is a generic model of a planetary rover with a NASA logo on it. It has six wheels, (four on one articulated carriage) a vertical mast with a T-shape on ...
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Are these images from Planet Labs? Are the images publicly available?
While the narrator is very enthusiastic, I can't quite figure out if these are images from Planet Labs' Dove satellites, and if the general public can also access this data.
In the NPR news article ...
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