For open-weather, there is a politics to building and maintaining infrastructure to listen to systems at the threshold of transformation. In the long tradition of radio amateurs, cyberfeminists, and anticolonial practitioners, we feel that it is our responsibility to develop literacies with systems that capture and represent our planet – so that we are able to name and the violence they enact, as well as recognise their alternative meanings and potential openings for interventions or imagining otherwise.

For NOAA-18’s decommissioning, the collective was in Barcelona, Spain. We rushed from our lunch break to nearby Ciutadella Park and tuned to the satellite’s transmission for one last time.