Element115Art

Green astronaut photography (From Wikicommons)

When Joe Bob Briggs hosted Night of the Living Dead on The Last Drive-In, he had an idea that the space probe from Venus that radiated the world was a Soviet Venera probe blown up by the US military. I made some renders of this hypothetical sequence. (Made with Blender)

Integrated Interplanetary Vehicle flying over Venus. This is my design for a joint US-Soviet spacecraft for missions to Venus or Mars. (Made with Blender. Background: edited NASA public domain picture.)

A Chinese fission-powered mission releases a sub-probe to investigate red TNO 5145 Pholus on its way to Neptune, in the 2040s. #space #art by @element115.bsky.social www.artstation.com/artwork/Ov4kOg

J-SAR, my own design for a science mission I'd like to see: flying a weather radar around Jupiter to study the dynamics of its atmosphere. (Made with Blender)

KH-11, the NRO's highly classified spy satellite. The first renders are an early model, the second set the Block IV. There are few images of KH-11s, so these are my extrapolations based on available information. (Made with Blender, Earth backgrounds from NASA public domain)

Unidentified Stealth VTOL, Groom Lake, 1990 (own design, made with Blender)

DS9 episode where Quark buys the Lament Configuration from a strange alien, can't open it, Rom steals it and opens it in one shot, Garak inexplicably knows a lot about it and Weyoun shows up with a mad scientist scheme save Rom from hell.

An early Space Shuttle concept was to rendezvous with Skylab and use a space tug called the Teleoperator Retrieval System to boost it into a higher orbit. Ultimately it was cancelled. (The Shuttle would be farther away, but I fudged it a little) (Blender + NASA public domain)

Sorry everyone, I didn't like Project Hail Mary.

Soviet crewed Mars concepts: MEK, MPK lander, TMK, MAVR (Renders made with Blender)

Bringing an SR-71 back to flight status is primarily a hauntological exercise.

Space Shuttle descending (Made with Blender, background from NASA public domain)

Don DeLillo: End Zone (1972) // Human Moments in World War III (1983)

Qian Xuesen's 1949 concept for a commercial spaceplane, designed to carry 10 passengers from New York to LA in 45 minutes. (Render made with Blender, backgrounds NASA public domain)

The Integrated Interplanetary Vehicle, my design for an alternate history joint US-Soviet vehicle for exploring Mars (first picture) and Venus (second picture). Renders made with Blender (Edited NASA public domain images for the backgrounds)

If we were to attempt a crewed interstellar flight choosing and building the propulsion method would be the easy part.

Integrated Interplanetary Vehicle (IIV), my own design for a Cold War era joint Soviet-US spacecraft. NASA would be in charge of the NERVA rockets, transfer capsule, and S-IVB workshop, the Soviets would be in charge of the other crew accommodations and scientific systems. (Made with Blender)

I recently got a short story published about a civilization that finds itself in a related and unusual situation: lots of detectable technosignatures, but no way to reach the civilizations sending them. perseidprophecies.ca/issue-10-sum...

I do wonder what we'd actually do in a realistic first contact scenario. Interstellar travel seems to be extremely difficult if not impossible. So the two sides would never meet. And any civilization outside 50 ly makes one call-and-response cycle longer than a human lifespan.

Boy Harsher

Nathan for You S3E4

Tongren space station, my design for a joint US-Chinese lunar orbiting station, roughly based on Hexagram 13 of the I Ching. (Renders made with Blender)