SpaceX

Ignition

The night launch that took the first 3-D printer ever sent into space, caught at the moment of ignition.

Ignition
Ignition
Ignition shown in a limewash reading corner beside an armchair and a floor lamp - scale render at 30 × 45 cm
Ignition shown in a graphite plaster wall at night, lit by a console lamp - scale render at 30 × 45 cm
Ignition shown in a beamed room with a greige plaster wall above a long oak sideboard - scale render at 30 × 45 cm
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Material
Size (cm)
Frame
Specification
30 × 45 cm
3 mm Aluminium
No Frame
Mount Kit Included
Price
$140

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About this work

SpaceX's CRS-4 mission carried the first 3-D printer ever sent into space, launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral at 1:52 in the morning on 21 September 2014, the fourth of twelve resupply runs NASA had contracted from SpaceX. The science aboard supported 255 investigations across Expeditions 40 and 41.

The picture itself shows none of that cargo, only the violence of getting it off the ground: a vertical white column of engine fire fills the centre, and the rocket recedes upward into darkness rather than out of it. Taut guy wires cross the upper sky, sharp enough to read as structure, and to the left the ignition has thrown thousands of separate lit specks of ice and debris clear of the vehicle.

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Materials

Metal
The edge of a Madtag aluminium print, a thin bright line, floating clear of a dark wall.

Nothing between you and the picture.

  • The surface for work that wants light.
  • Colour at full strength; blacks hold their depth.
  • Sealed under gloss: no frame, no glazing.
  • 3 mm aluminium composite, floats clear of the wall.
Arrives flat, hanging system included
Paper
A Madtag print on a sheet of matte fine art paper, curling at one corner to show its thickness.

Hahnemühle, not poster paper.

  • When you want the best.
  • Unframed, it is Hahnemühle: photographs on Photo Rag 308, 100% cotton.
  • Painterly work on German Etching 310, mould-made and textured.
  • Over 300 gsm, printed as a pigment giclée.
Arrives rolled in a Madtag tube
Framed
The corner of a Madtag print in a black wood frame, the sheet flush against the moulding behind acrylic, no mount board.

For the wall you want finished.

  • Framed and finished; no trip to a framer.
  • A different print: 200 gsm coated silk, made as one piece.
  • Black, white or natural wood moulding.
  • Acrylic glazing, no mount board: the sheet fills the frame.
Arrives flat in its frame
Canvas
A Madtag print on stretched canvas with a solid black wrapped edge.

Nothing lost around the corner.

  • Occupies the room rather than hanging flat.
  • Stretched over a 40 mm deep FSC wood frame.
  • No glazing; the weave itself takes the light.
  • The picture stops at the face; edges solid black, always.
Arrives stretched and ready to hang
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