We’re temporarily off the air

A hardware failure has taken SceneSat down. We’re turning it into the relaunch we’ve been building towards.

On 6 August 2026 the old server that has carried SceneSat for years suffered a fatal hardware failure. It isn’t coming back the way it was — the radio, the video streams, the website and everything around them went with it.

The timing is not what we would have chosen. The silver lining is that it isn’t a surprise: we have been rebuilding SceneSat from the ground up, on new hardware, for some time now — a new website, a new radio engine, a new video engine, the works — and that work was already well along.

So rather than piece the old system back together only to replace it a few weeks later, we’re using this as the moment to finish the job. What comes back will be the new SceneSat.

When?

We’re working hard on it. We’re not going to put a date on it, because we’d rather bring it back properly than bring it back twice — but we are not talking about months.

Also, rest assured — the archives are backed up and nothing is lost forever. Like a phoenix, we will rise again and come back, stronger and better than ever.

In the meantime

The community is very much still on the air, even if the transmitter isn’t. Come and say hello, and we’ll post progress as we go:

• Our Discord server
• IRC — #scenesat on EFnet
• Facebook

Our back catalogue of compilations is on Bandcamp. You can support us via PayPal or, as a bunch of you already do, Patreon. For other ways of supporting us, join the community and ping us there.

Thank you for bearing with us. That support is a large part of what makes the rebuild possible.

— The SceneSat crew