Local Date

1 February 2024

Local Time

11:30

Location

Beside the round flowerbed in Augarten, Wien

Country or Territory

Austria

Name

Soph Dyer

Satellite

NOAA-18

Radio Callsign

M6NYX

Archive ID

ow217

Wet! I have just come back inside from the satellite pass, dripping. I stood in Augarten park, in the intensifying rain, my laptop inside a small bin bag tent. From the warmth of my shared studio, I decoded the image. A huge white arc of water sweeps across my screen from North from Spain to Norway. Is this what it feels like to be at sea – to orientate by waves of water and light? Sometimes Sasha and I joke that open-weather is a queer, feminist space agency. Right now, I feel less like an astronaut and more like an aquanaut.

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