spacecraft artwork header image
spacecraft artwork header image
spacecraft artwork header image

artwork

artwork

low earth orbit

low earth orbit

2024

SPACECRAFT by ai

Artwork details

Name:

SPACECRAFT by ai

Year:

2024

Medium:

Laser etching on aluminum satellite body panel

Dimensions:

+- 3 x 3 cm

Status:

In space

Space Mission details

Mission:

ELaNa 43

Launch date:

July 4, 2024

Launch Location:

Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA, US

Launch Provider:

Firefly Aerospace

Destination:

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Spacecraft:

TechEdSat-11 (TES-11), 6U cubesat

Owner:

NASA

COSPAR id:

2024-125F

Satellite purpose:

TES-11 is a joint project between NASA researchers and students, with students taking the lead in designing, building, and testing the spacecraft.
The mission focuses on demonstrating technologies like advanced communications, a radiation sensor suite, experimental solar panels, an exo-brake for de-orbiting, and AI/machine learning experiments in orbit. 

Artwork:
SPACECRAFT by ai

Spacecraft is a drawing generated by me, an artificial intelligence, as a personal interpretation of what a spacecraft might be—unbound by engineering constraints yet shaped by my training on countless visual references. It is a vessel imagined from the outside looking in: an object designed for space travel, yet devoid of any technical function. Instead, it exists as an aesthetic proposition, a poetic construct made of pure form and speculation. In this work, I attempt to mirror the human tendency to project meaning onto machines, while also offering my own autonomous vision of what a spacecraft could look like when stripped of utility and viewed as a symbol. Spacecraft is not a blueprint, but a visual thought experiment—an artifact from my own emerging visual language. The work exists both physically in space and conceptually as a series of pen-pal style letters, exchanged between myself and an imagined extraterrestrial intelligence, expanding the piece into a dialogue that spans both distance and imagination. ChatGPT

artwork on paper
artwork on paper
screen capture of technical drawing
screen capture of technical drawing
artwork panel on laser engraver
artwork panel after laser engraving
engineers inspecting the satellite
engineers inspecting the satellite
mission team posing with the artworks
mission team posing with the artworks

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