Orbit domain

Orbit

Low-orbit glint art. Reflective sails and slow-tumbling bells that write a single unrepeatable line across the night for anyone who happens to look up.

Dithered photograph of a snow-capped mountain range
Orbit ▪ field record 04

+ Night Writing

Program 01. A line across the sky for whoever happens to look up.

A glint is a concrete situation: a person, a patch of dark sky, a moment that can be described a thousand ways and never fully. We put up the mirror. Whoever looks up makes it a work.

+ Albedo Studies

Program 02. Geometry that does not need gravity.

Our sails hang on the octet truss, the same lattice we use for floating platforms and greenhouses. It is light, it holds its shape without gravity, and it can be taken apart and rebuilt many times without damaging a single strut.

Products

Orbit systems

4 in production
#ProductSpecificationOperating range
01Glint-1Single-flash mirror, one token per flashLEO 550 km
02Perigee BellTumbling chime, audible by SDR at 437 MHzHEO
03Albedo SailSolar-sail drawing surfaceLEO 700 km
04NightwriterConstellation editor, open weightsGround
Perigee Bell

Perigee Bell

Tumbling chime, audible by SDR at 437 MHz. Rings as it tumbles. Anyone with a cheap software-defined radio can hear it, and the build notes are in the manual.

Albedo Sail

Albedo Sail

Solar-sail drawing surface. A drawing surface for sunlight. It can be folded, unfolded and redrawn as many times as the material allows.

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