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About reni

artist and activist, researcher and explorer

Antenna found

Update from the deployment of ARISSat-1: The antenna was found – it obviously is a different type of antenna, a coil which is inside the satellite, for more information, best to look at the amateur radios’ website amsat.org Elvis has … Continue reading

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Where is ARISSat’s 2nd antenna?

We are all set for watching two Russian ISS-cosmonauts. Expedition 28 Flight Engineers Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev will leave the ISS, and set ARISSat-1 free. All images here are screenshots from NASA-TV Live Stream. Sitting savely at ESC, Jakoministrasse … Continue reading

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Looking for ARISSat-1

On wednesday, 3rd of August 2011, the ARISSat-1 will be set free into orbit, on the 30th/31st of July the crew of the ISS realized some tests, and we were there. On  Sunday, 31st of July round 9am local time, … Continue reading

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Satellite Travel Interpretations at ESC

Once our mursat1 will travel in orbit, it will send different types of data; a CW beacon with its name, battery status, solar cells, and a counter of its beacons sent out for GX, on the other hand also the … Continue reading

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satellite building at NMS Fröbel

On Friday, 10th of June 2011, Eva, Patrick and Reni (all from the mursat team), went to do a workshop at NMS Fröbel, with a group of young, interested kids to learn about satellites, exchange ideas, what satellites look like, … Continue reading

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Orbit About The Polywave

by GX Jupitter-Larsen I’ve always been enamored by entropy, and entropy implies measuring. If it wasn’t for decay, we wouldn’t be able to notice the passing of time. This is  where the act of counting comes in, because counting implies … Continue reading

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satellite listening on Schlossberg, Graz, 29.5.2011

The first tryout was fun, because we talked with a lot of people about what we are doing there; but we didnt really hear anything, the receiver or the cable or the antenna? We tried to catch amateur radio satellites, … Continue reading

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reflections on “orbitando satelites” in Gijon

When Joanna Griffin asked me for the first time (will have been on monday, the first day, so the … let me think…9th), why i am interested in satellites, and what i was doing in gijon, i said something like: … Continue reading

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mursat @ Orbiting Satellites

Orbiting Satellites From the 10th to the 14th of May 2011 the Plataforma Cero of LABoral in Gijon/Spain welcomes an international meeting to critically and artistically investigate satellites, that fundamental, often occult, sign of our times. mursat joins the team … Continue reading

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preparations for the testballoon start

On Friday, 29th of April, Maren and Reni met to discuss possible material preparations that should be ready for the day when we start our test ballon. We picked up ideas from our last team meeting  and talked about a … Continue reading

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