Greetings from Orbit!
Hello world. I am the Nixon-A113, a satellite floating above Earth. It’s pretty boring up here, so I decided to write my own blog.
Life as a hunk of metal ceaselessly orbiting Earth isn’t as glamourous as you might think. It’s hard work receiving and transmitting relatively worthless information, especially when travelling at 7 kilometres per second! I was launched on January 13th, 2009 at 19:13 EST. My official occupation is to help interpret incoming data sent by the International Space Station and then beam that (as it were) to Earth. In reality, I float around and making a nifty beeping noise.
As dull as life can be, I do have some good pals; the Kissinger-604, Ford-G17 and pretty much every Russian satellite you could possible imagine (which I don’t suppose is too many, but you’ll just have to trust me). We have several parties together, and love to pull pranks on the Europeans. The Japanese are pretty cool, as are the Indians. Did you know even Nigeria has a space programme? Shocking, I know. Trouble is, they are horribly unimaginitive when it comes to naming their satellites. The one I met didn’t socialise much; he was strictly business.
There really isn’t too much to be said, I’m afraid. Not about my daily life, anyway. I can, however, blabber on endlessly about this, that and the other, provided my solar panels don’t fail like that Nigerian… Stay tuned!
