Acquiring Uplink

Radio dish and observatory dome on an open desert plain

Site 00 __ 00:00

The
Station

Set on a dry lakebed two days from the nearest paved road, the Station is where every season comes home. Here we read the cores, align the night plates and replay the signals our crews carry back from each analog site.

Station Record / 02.118

Array Aligned

[ We rehearse other worlds ]

We go where the ground behaves like somewhere else. Brine that crusts like frost on a frozen moon, basalt that holds heat like Martian rock, and skies dark enough for the array to hear the edge of the galaxy.

Season Protocol

Six Stages

01

Transit

Salt Transit

S_0417

02

Survey

Grid Survey

S_2290

03

Core

Core Sampling

S_5136

04

Night

Night Plates

S_7703

05

Relay

Dish Relay

S_3348

06

Archive

Cold Archive

S_9061

Rehearsing

Other

Worlds

On

Earth's

Strangest

Ground

Dotted world map marking the six Saltmere Array analog field sites

Crew
Roster

01

02

03

04

05

Portrait of Ilse Marrow

Ilse Marrow

Brine and Ice Survey Lead

Portrait of Daan Holloway

Daan Holloway

Core Library and Archive

Portrait of Mira Kastel

Mira Kastel

Night Sky Plate Imaging

Portrait of Noor Achterberg

Noor Achterberg

Basalt Terrain Mapping

Portrait of Sefa Lindqvist

Sefa Lindqvist

Radio Array Operations Lead

Write to the field station. Our crews read every dispatch between night shifts and reply as soon as the next uplink window opens.

Open a Channel
Milky Way arching over a dark desert ridge
A lone surveyor walking into blue fog
Black sand shore under a low grey sky
Blue mountain ranges seen from high altitude
Aerial relief of eroded terrain in monochrome
Dark ridgeline under a pale column of light