{"id":8322,"date":"2014-07-16T01:42:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8322"},"modified":"2014-07-16T01:42:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T05:42:14","slug":"satellite-reaches-orbit-with-artwork-etchings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8322","title":{"rendered":"Satellite reaches orbit with artwork etchings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clyde-space.com\/ukube-1\" target=\"_blank\">UKube-1<\/a> satellite, built by\u00a0made by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clyde-space.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clyde Space<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/uk-space-agency\">UK Space Agency<\/a>, went to space last week on a <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/NU-RWrDH3w4\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Soyuz rocket<\/a>. It was the first Scottish satellite and one of the first satellites to have art etched on a side panel:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/science\/20140707\/la-gallery-iam8bit-creates-first-ever-satellite-art-launching-into-space-tuesday\" target=\"_d\">L.A. gallery iam8bit creates first-ever satellite art, launching into space Tuesday &#8211; San Gabriel Valley Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I reported on the artwork project last year: <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3916\" target=\"_d\">Satellite going to space with pop-art whimsy &#8211; Space-for-All<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The art was created by\u00a0Jon Gibson and Amanda White<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/iam8bit.com\/portfolio\/\" target=\"_d\">iam8bit Productions<\/a>\u00a0in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a brief video showing how the etchings would look to a space visitor:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qiMUNUfaYgU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. It was the first Scottish satellite and one of the first satellites to have art etched on a side panel:\u00a0\u00a0L.A. gallery iam8bit creates first-ever satellite art, launching into space Tuesday &#8211; San Gabriel Valley Tribune. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Satellite reaches orbit with artwork etchings<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8322","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-2ae","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3916,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3916","url_meta":{"origin":8322,"position":0},"title":"Satellite going to space with pop-art whimsy","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Scottish based company Clyde Space will be launching their first Cubesat in the near future. 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