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When standing in the middle of Orbit, wherever you hear a sound, if you were to point to the sound, that is the exact location of a satellite flying around earth. NASA has 19 satellites that study the earth and by pairing the trajectory data of each spacecraft to artistically created sounds, we allow them to say “hello” as they move across the sky, much like you hear a bird passing over your head. More about the history of this project below. In 2005 I went to Goldstone California with David Delgado to see the Deep Space Network. There, we saw enormous antenna communicating with spacecraft around the solar system. It was eerily quiet out in the desert, but we knew a lot of information was going back and forth. Since the satellites were so far away we couldn’t see them, so we wondered, what if we could hear where they were instead? A few years later I was introduced to Chris Chafe at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. There I saw a room with speak

In 2005 I went to Goldstone California with David Delgado to see the Deep Space Network. There, we saw enormous antenna communicating with spacecraft around the solar system. It was eerily quiet out in the desert, but we knew a lot of information was going back and forth. Since the satellites were so far away we couldn’t see them, so we wondered, what if we could hear where they were instead? A few years later I was introduced to Chris Chafe at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. There I saw a room with speakers all over the place, even in the floor.…

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