{"id":80389,"date":"2013-08-13T17:12:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T09:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/pop-art-satellite-believed-to-be-first-work-of-art-in-orbit\/"},"modified":"2013-08-13T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T09:12:13","slug":"pop-art-satellite-believed-to-be-first-work-of-art-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/pop-art-satellite-believed-to-be-first-work-of-art-in-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop-Art Satellite Believed to be First Work of Art in Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Satellite, Earth observation, Artwork<br \/>\nPublication: Sfgate.com<br \/>\nPublication Date: 08\/13\/2013<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 150px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"6\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/popartsat.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"155\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p class=\"section_title\"><em>Officials in Glasgow, Scotland, pose with the satellite that will carry artwork created by Jon Gibson and Amanda White.<br \/>\n<\/em>Image Credit: Scottish Government Press Office<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Los Angeles artists Jon Gibson and Amanda White have created a design inspired by Andy Warhol that has been impressed into a satellite\u2019s panel to produce a replica of an oversized electrical charging device. The work of art turned satellite will monitor atmospheric conditions and send photos and data from 373 miles above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>While the design came easily for the artists, placing artwork on the satellite proved to be a challenge. To create artwork that could endure a launch and then orbit the Earth at 17,000 mph for 25 years, the images were etched onto the satellite\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, which <b>Clyde Space<\/b> is scheduled to send into orbit on Oct. 29 aboard a Soyuz rocket, may not be the first work of art in orbit. A South Korean artist\u2019s home-built satellite was launched in February. While there was no artful design attached to it, the spacecraft did contain lights that were supposed to illuminate in a colorful, artful&nbsp;pattern.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Satellite, Earth observation, Artwork Publication: Sfgate.com Publication Date: 08\/13\/2013 Officials in Glasgow, Scotland, pose with the satellite that will carry artwork created by Jon Gibson and Amanda White. Image Credit: Scottish Government Press Office Los Angeles artists Jon Gibson and Amanda White have created a design inspired by Andy Warhol that has been impressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}