Khushi Shah Merges Space Art with Earth-Observation Design

Khushi Shah turned an early interest in the creative side of the space industry into a career that includes artwork delivered to the Moon. Her piece, made with another artist, was part of a lunar time capsule and flew on two commercial lunar landers. She now works with Orbiventure on service design for fisheries using environmental and satellite data, with plans to help Earth-observation tools gain wider adoption.

Shah first believed a space career required engineering, but later pursued its creative side. She joined India’s Space Generation Advisory Council and served as Asia-Pacific communications manager, work she said introduced her to leaders across many countries. A referral chain through Space Pride’s founder led her to the Interstellar Foundation’s ASPIRE One Record, a lunar cultural archive modeled after the Voyager Golden Record.

With Rania Djojosugito, Shah created a rainbow-ringed black hole image. It formed part of the project’s 1GB payload and reached the Moon on Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Intuitive Machines’ IM-2. After moving to New York, she finished Parsons School of Design and became a research assistant there. At Orbiventure, she designs services around satellite and environmental data for fisheries, with possible later work in agriculture and environmental justice.

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