A satellite can be many things – either a natural body (e.g. asteroid or moon) that revolves around a bigger celestial body (e.g. a planet) – or an artificial (= designed) body placed in the orbit of such a celestial body. Or it can be used to describe a country, area, or organization when it is controlled by or depending on a larger and more powerful one.
“Satellites” explores the usage of space exploration for propaganda in the Cold War.

Each performance is only for two audience members who become one astronaut and one cosmonaut. They are getting dressed in space suits and seated in pilot seats of a hemisphere-shaped space station. They hear two different perspectives of the situation, two different stories, via wireless headphones. An outside audience can prepare for their own mission later – or watch again where they just have been inside. The audio track also instructs the inside audience how to perform (in all senses of the term) in space.