{"id":3916,"date":"2013-08-12T19:04:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T19:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2013-08-12T19:04:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T19:04:56","slug":"satellite-going-to-space-with-pop-art-whimsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3916","title":{"rendered":"Satellite going to space with pop-art whimsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish based company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clyde-space.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Clyde Space<\/a> will be launching their first Cubesat in the near future. To highlight this milestone, they asked LA based artists <a href=\"http:\/\/iam8bit.com\/portfolio\/\" target=\"_d\">Jon Gibson and Amanda White<\/a> to create some artwork decoration. They took up the challenge and decided to engraved the side of the spacecraft so that it looks like &#8220;an oversized electrical charging device&#8221; : <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/worlds-first-pop-art-satellite-headed-space-132655881.html\" target=\"_d\">World&#8217;s first pop-art satellite headed to space &#8211; AP\/Yahoo!<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If someone is going to invade our planet, presumably they&#8217;re going to come in some sort of electronic, electricity-powered ship,&#8221; Gibson notes whimsically. &#8220;Maybe this will make them stop for a moment and say, &#8216;These guys are nice. We&#8217;re not going to destroy their planet.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This short video shows off the satellite side panel created by Gibson\/White:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qiMUNUfaYgU?rel=0\" height=\"253\" width=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is definitely not the first artwork to go into space, however. See the <a class=\"linkLocal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/Art\/art2.html#InSpace\">HobbySpace Art in Space section<\/a> for several examples of art sent to space and created in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish based company Clyde Space will be launching their first Cubesat in the near future. To highlight this milestone, they asked LA based artists Jon Gibson and Amanda White to create some artwork decoration. They took up the challenge and decided to engraved the side of the spacecraft so that it looks like &#8220;an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3916\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Satellite going to space with pop-art whimsy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-arts","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-11a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8322,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8322","url_meta":{"origin":3916,"position":0},"title":"Satellite reaches orbit with artwork etchings","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The UKube-1 satellite, built by\u00a0made by\u00a0Clyde Space\u00a0and the\u00a0UK Space Agency, went to space last week on a Russian Soyuz rocket. 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