Orbital Artifacts
Orbital ArtifactsSatellite Imagery · Art Prints

Earth data,
reimagined as art.

Every print begins 705 km above Earth, recording light your eyes can’t see. NASA and ESA satellites capture it. Scientists at the USGS EROS Center decode it. The studio frames it. Editions are small. Reprints don’t exist.

Enter the archiveHow it’s made
Lena Delta — Russia — Landsat 7Whirlpool in the Air — Greenland — Landsat 7Re-entry — Jebel Kissu, Sudan — Landsat 8Malaspina Glacier — Communications and Publishing — Landsat 7Bolivian Deforestation — National Land Imaging ProgramWhirlpool Cloud — Spain — ASTER
OA-001 · Lena DeltaRussia

Origin

“What if the way satellites see our planet is itself a kind of art?”
FeaturedSelected scenes

A few pieces,
from the archive.

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Lena Delta — Russia — Landsat 7

Lena Delta

Russia

OA-001
Landsat 7
Whirlpool in the Air — Greenland — Landsat 7

Whirlpool in the Air

Greenland

OA-002
Landsat 7
Re-entry — Jebel Kissu, Sudan — Landsat 8

Re-entry

Jebel Kissu, Sudan

OA-003
Landsat 8

B07 · B06 · B04 → RGB

B07 SWIR-2 channelB07SWIR-2
B06 SWIR-1 channelB06SWIR-1
B04 RED channelB04RED
Re-entry false-color composite

histogram stretch · 99%

Process

From a satellite pass
to a print.

Every print passes through five sets of hands before it reaches a wall. A satellite. A multispectral sensor. A team of scientists. An editorial studio. A printer’s press. Pigment on cotton, signed and numbered, edition capped, never reprinted.

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Orbital Artifacts studio mark

Anupa Kulathunga · Sri Lanka

About

Orbital Artifacts is the work of Anupa Kulathunga, from Sri Lanka.

A design studio working at the seam of Earth observation and image-making. Every print travels a chain — satellite, sensor, scientist, studio. The source is open data; the curation, framing, and print are ours.

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