Satellite Border Footprint

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Space to share information, links etc. for the Satellite/Border/Footprint Workshop by Lisa Parks at the HMKV, organized by Francis Hunger

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Participants

Workshop

Satellite information

Representation from orbital perspective

Satellite dishes

Satellite Tracking

  • Heavens Above a homepage where you can find satellite passings in relation to your geocoordinates
  • Nasa JTrack a satellite tracking tool by NASA
  • Satellite tracking Realtime satellite tracking, with maps and further informations about selected satellites.
  • www.satsignal.net Huge collection of information about satellites and signals. Codes, decoding, software, mapping. Some of the software is commercial.

Balloon Information

[* http://space.1337arts.com/hardware http://space.1337arts.com] Project Ikarus - low cost near space remote technology

  • [ http://weather.uwyo.edu/polar/balloon_traj.html University of Wyoming’s balloon trajectory website] Predict your ballon flight in google earth related to your geocoordinates
  • www.telegraph.co.uk Article in digital newsaper Telegraph (UK): Teens Capture images of space with 56 pounds camera and a balloon
  • Hobbyspace.com Near Space exploring with balloons on hobbyspace.com - a resource for amateur space action

Artists working with satellites

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Ingo Günther talking about his work on satellite images (and globes)


Books, readers

  • Material listing
  • Friedrich von Borries, Matthias Böttger, Florian Heilmeyer: TV Towers / Fernsehtürme: 8,559 Meters Politics and Architecture 8.559 Meter Politik und Architektur ISBN 3868590242
  • Günther, Ingo: REPUBLIK.COM ISBN 3893229485
  • McCray, W. Patrick: Keep Watching the Skies, ISBN 0691128545
  • Paglen, Trevor: Blank Spots On The Map – The Dark Goegraphy Of The Pentagon's Secret World ISBN 9780525951018
  • Paglen, Trevor: I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me - Emblems From The Pentagon's Black World ISBN 9781933633329
  • Parks, Lisa: Cultures in Orbit – Satellites and the Televisual ISBN 978-0822334972
  • Redfield, Peter: Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana ISBN 0520219856
  • Virilio, Paul. Open Sky, Verso, 1997, ISBN 1859841813, 9781859841815.
  • Virilio, Paul. Big Optics (scribd link)
  • Weibel, Peter (publisher): Ocean Earth: 1980 bis heute ISBN 3927789720