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One Thousand Orbits

Visualizing debris in space, using information and data from NASA as resources. Each line light grey line indicates a probable orbit around the earth, the 3-dimensional orbit is flattened to the page using a map projection. The shape of the projection used is debossed into the image. Each of the one thousand orbital lines shown represents more than 600 pieces of debris orbiting earth; there are wide uncertainties in the estimated quantity of space junk.

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1000orbits_proj_1

One thousand orbits, projection #1, 2007. 16 in x 21.75 in., archival inkjet print, debossing. Edition of 10.

1000orbits_proj_2

One thousand orbits, projection #2, 2007. 16 in x 21.75 in., archival inkjet print, debossing. Edition of 10.

 

Filed Under: archive, prints Tagged With: space

  • WORKS CHRONOLOGY
    • Sonic Planetarium: Satellite Pipes – 2018
    • Moon Arrow – 2018
    • Sonic Planetarium – 2017
    • Go GOES Radiotelescope – 2017
    • Collective-action Motion Study of Anik-E1 – 2017
    • Southern Florida Beachball Antenna Archive – 2017
    • Ground Station – 2014-2018
    • Beachball Antennas – 2016
    • Outernet Library Branch – Wave Farm – 2016
    • Outernet Library Branch – Wave Farm: Library Book – 2016
    • Menu for Mars Supper Club – 2014-2016
    • YOU ARE HERE – 2015
    • Conjuring the Northern Lights – 2014
    • Faxes from Space – 2014
    • L5 From Here – 2013-2017
    • SP Weather Station – 2007-2014
    • Long Island City Sundial Field Guide – 2013
    • Details from the Least Popular – 2013
    • ISS Road Trip – 2012
    • SLICED – 2012
    • Atlas Dream Sequence – 2012
    • Push for Luck Project Archive – 2012
    • Satellites – 2012
    • Space Junk Guide to the Hayden Planetarium – 2012
    • The Time Machine – 2012
    • Tranquility Base – 2012
    • Volumes with Flock – 2012
    • Stargazing by Microscope – 2011
    • Cloud Book Study – 2011
    • Fake Snow Collection – 2010
    • Orbital Debris Simulator – 2010
    • Manhattanhenge – 2009
    • Urban Forest on 14th Street – 2009
    • Forest & Stream – 2009
    • On Safari, 1976 – 2009
    • SP Potluck Project – 2009
    • Home Planetarium Survey – 2008
    • One Thousand Orbits – 2007
    • Uniform Paper – 2006
    • Backsides of Type – 2006
    • A Block of Alleys – 2005
    • Roofs print series – 2004
    • Atlas of Punctuation – 2004
    • Typography of the Period – 2003
    • Nest Variations – 2003
    • Maps 1997-2001
    • Humans Labeled – 1999
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