mur.sat - the mur.at satellite

In 2011 mur.at will launch this satellite. Interorbital Systems offers its TubeSat personal satellite kit for aprox. USD 8,600 (launch inclusive). The satellite will occupy a LEO for a couple of weeks before burning in the atmosphere on reentry. This is a SpaceArt project kindly supported by BMUKK.

Before mursat is sent to its LEO (lower earth orbit), it was already shown, in an exhibition taking place from December 3rd to 17th 2010 at ESC im LABOR, Graz. Until the end of the exhibition, the satellite's functionality will be fixed. With an additional payload of only 200 grams, we have to focus on a certain range of possibilites.

the project in detail

Go to the ProjectDescription for background information and motivation to develop mursat.

the people involved

Read about the PeopleInvolved - artists, tech developers, supporters.

the actions

the technology / tech development

The communication between mur.sat and earth will be solved via 2.4GHz radio. As the signals of mur.sat will only be available for very short time periods on one spot, we will need a dense global GroundStationNetwork of sender/reciever stations. The single station should catch and collect the signal snippets and transmit them via Internet (TCP/IP) to the mur.at space center in Graz. The thereby originating art piece will be visible in the Graz space center and online; of course all data will be available online and for free, published under a fitting GNU public licence that will ensure access to durable open public data. After a few weeks - probably 6 to 8 - the satellite will burn up during its re-entry in the earth atmosphere.

LEO

Low Earth Orbit (see e.g. Wikipedia for more).

3~4 min per day visibility from Graz/Austria

the art

Additionally, already 2 projects are on board now:

"Vapor-Kondensat": The maximal compression of a radio-art-piece called "Vapor Trails of Europe", realized by alien production on Dec 7th, 2010, for Kunstradio in the EBU-Network, will be sent with mursat1 and broadcast to free use for everybody.

"Wahrnehmende der Weltenklänge" - a satellite project for children, initiated by Eva Stern over a period of several months, children will formulate their wishes that will be sent into space with mursat. At the end of its lifetime, the satellite will become a shooting star and by that trigger more wishes from more people.

On earth, in the space center in Graz, and optionally on all other sorts of locations, available data will be received and interpreted, in sound, light, temperature installations, to create his sensation of NOW, of present time, and of connectedness to this expansion and extension that surrounds us.

Why should only economically potent entities like states or companies be entitled to develop the imagery and broadcast (and thereby define) the ways of perception of the outer world, and of the representations of earth and the universe?

mur.sat is a cooperation between the Graz-based organisations mur.at, realraum and ESC im Labor. The Team: Christian Pointner, Bernhard Tittelbach, Alien Productions (Andrea Sodomka, Norbert Math, Martin Breindl) Heimo Ranzenbacher, Peter Venus, Reni Hofmüller, Jogi Hofmüller, Takashi Linzbichler, Eva Stern, Henrik Peiß,

the ground station network

There will be an GroundStationNetwork of people around the world that will follow mur.sat on its mission. Please consider our OpenInvitation to participate!

What's New

The TubeSatKit has finally arrived (see SpaceOdyssey2010 for more details).

mur.sat logotype idea

Things are getting better. Have a look at the GraphicsDesign (you need to be registered to view this page).

http://n2yo.com/

Pending an idea for a better name, there is a GalleryPage now where you find pictures that don't fit anywhere else ;)

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