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Pleiades 2 Mission Patch Design & Symbolism
Designed by: Monica Choiniere The Pleiades 2 mission patch mirrors the Pleiades 1 design to maintain visual cohesion between the two missions. The key difference lies in the rocket’s exhaust trails. For Pleiades 2, two separate red streams represent the launches of both Pleiades 1 and 2 from opposite US coasts. These streams also form…
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The Meaning of Our Pleiades 3 Mission Patch
Designed by: Gary Fussell & Sarah Wattenberg The Pleiades 3 mission patch symbolizes the team’s first scientific flight. The follow up to Pleiades 1, which revealed critical discrepancies: a mismatch between simulation altimeter data, ground-based camera calculations, and the onboard altimeter reading. Pleiades 3’s purpose is to tease out this uncertainty by carrying two altimeters…
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The Meaning of Our Pleiades 1 Mission Patch
Designed by: Sarah Wattenberg The Pleiades 1 mission patch features a rocket with a long entrail launching from Earth into space. The rocket depicted has the same silhouette as the rockets launched during this mission for the Level 1 Certification (L1). The entrail lists last names of the team members who contributed to the preparations…
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The Meaning of Our Pleiades Program Patch
Designed by: Sarah Wattenberg & Gary Fussell Welcome to the first era! The Era of the Pleiades. Marking our first launches and our foundations as a team as we look to the stars. With this in mind, we believed using the name of one of the oldest recorded star clusters would perfectly symbolize our beginnings.…
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The Meaning of Our Dark Works Logo
Designed by: Gary Fussell Welcome to Dark Works. Our team’s logo was not an easy feat and actually went through several iterations, especially since the name Dark Works comes from when I was a teenager in 2014. In my childhood, I always imagined that the logo would be a black knight, however, as I grew…
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