<nettime-ann> The Weight of Information 2.0 Launch

[Julian Priest <julian@informal.org.uk>]

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Hi all,

This evening (Saturday Nov 17th) at 0901 UTC (0401 EST) marks the
attempted launch of the second iteration of my 2014 satellite artwork
The Weight of Information 2.0.

A small 2cm square pico-satellite named TWOi will orbit the Earth and
try to ascend by forgetting, to escape the weight of information.

TWOi is packed on board the NASA mission NG-10 bound for Low Earth
Orbit. The launch will take place from Wallops Flight Facility in
Virginia, USA.

A live stream starts at 0830 UTC (0330 EST) here:

https://www.nasa.gov/live

NG-10 is launched on a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket and is delivering
a Cygnus space craft, CRS-10 to re-supply the space station.

TWOi is packed with other pico-sats on board Zac Manchester's Kicksat2
deployer satellite - a small 3u cubesat which is on board the Cygnus.

The Cygnus will dock with the ISS and once it has been unloaded and
re-packed with return items, will perform  maneuvers in mid-february
before deploying Kicksat2 to Low Earth orbit at 325km.

2 days after deployment TWOi will be placed into autonomous orbit and
is scheduled for re-entry a week later.

During the autonomous orbit section of the flight public Meet 2 Delete
events will be run at the Thomas King Observatory in Wellington NZ and
other locations TBA.

If you would be interested in hosting a Meet 2 Delete event at your
location in mid-feb / early march 2019 please do get in touch
twoi@julianpriest.org

Details at http://julianpriest.org/twoi

[apologies for x-posting]

cheers

/julian

http://julianpriest.org/twoi

Thomas King Observatory, 40 Salamanca Road, Wellington 6012, NZ

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