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Launch

Launch Date:

7 March 2020

Launch Mission:

SpaceX CRS-20

Launch Operator:

SpaceX

Rocket:

Falcon 9

Launch Vehicle:

Dragon C112

Launch Location:

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, FL, USA

2020-016A

COSPAR id:

In Space

Host:

International Space Station

Type:

Space Station

Operator:

Multinational

Location:

Low Earth Orbit, Geocentric Orbit

COSPAR id:

1998-067A

Return

Return Date:

6 April 2020

Return Mission:

SpaceX CRS-20

Return Vehicle:

Dragon C112

Landing Location:

Pacific Ocean

COSPAR id:

2020-016A

Updated:

8/7/24

status:

Returned

Mission Profile

Partners:

Andrea S. Ling

Architect, Artist, Researcher

Artist(s)

Collection

This artwork is part of a collection:

Sojourner 2020 - An international art payload to ISS

2020

Abiogenetic Triptych is a work-in-progress reflection on the divergent possibilities that protocells, though to be the chemical proto-origins of life, could have taken without the rule of gravity governing bio-chemical evolution.

Abiogenetic Triptych is a work-in-progress reflection on the divergent possibilities that protocells, though to be the chemical proto-origins of life, could have taken without the rule of gravity governing bio-chemical evolution. At each gravity level of Sojouner 2020 different ratios of inorganic salts – copper sulfate and potassium ferricyanide – are mixed together after launch to form protocell compounds. The resulting precipitate membranes, formed under conditions of differing osmotic pressures and differing gravities, will give a glimpse of how the first inklings of life may have formed under these interstellar conditions. Upon return to earth, the precipitate morphology and material characteristics will be used as prompts for synthetic cell designs and imaginary creatures. Sojourner 2020 (a 1.5U size unit, 100mm x 100mm x 152.4mm ) will be launched into low Earth orbit for about 30 days. It features a three-layer telescoping structure which creates three different “gravities”: zero gravity, lunar gravity, and Martian gravity. Each layer of the structure rotates independently. The top layer remains still in weightlessness, while the middle and bottom layers spin at different speeds to produce centripetal accelerations that mimic lunar gravity and Martian gravity, respectively. Each layer carries 6 pockets that can hold projects.
Dimensions:

1 x 1.2 cm

Medium:

inorganic salts – copper sulfate and potassium ferricyanide

Genre:

Abiogenetic Triptych

Andrea S. Ling

USA, Canada

2020

Abiogenetic Triptych

2020

Returned
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