UKube-1: A Bit of CubeSat Whimsy
Tuesday, August 13th, 2013Oy, there’s a charging station, mate!
Who else but the Scots and ClydeSpace would send something like this into space? Via Wired UK…
UKube-1 is the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat mission and is being fully assembled by Scottish satellite company ClydeSpace. It now has the added honour of being the world’s ” first functioning pop-art satellite”, with designs by artists Jon Gibson and Amanda White, who run the famous iambit gallery in Los Angeles.
The celestial charging station will hopefully be seen as a gesture of goodwill to would-be space invaders, joke the pair.
“It’s like when a complete stranger at the airport lets you use their wall charger,” says Gibson in an email to Wired.co.uk. “If their original goal was to obliterate our species with a massive plasma canon, perhaps even such a small gesture of kindness will make them reconsider.”
Credit: iam8bit
It’s high time get more creative with their public-facing marketing — as well as to their B2B audiences.
They probably grew up on Monty Python — always good for creative inspiration.
