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spacegirlariel — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:23:56 +0000

hiriseclickworkers

spacegirlariel — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:40:58 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:42:03 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:29:06 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:36:51 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:16:58 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:17:19 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:44:26 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:59:03 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:59:21 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:54:43 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:21:27 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:49:10 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:10:29 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:27:32 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:41:19 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:37:58 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:40:37 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:27:52 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:37:04 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:01:16 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:18:34 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:42:31 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:45:31 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:37:06 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:11:28 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:21:43 +0000

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Conrad Award's YouTube Channel

spacegirlariel — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:58:36 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:37:20 +0000

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spacegirlariel — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:24:51 +0000

Epsilon Aurigae artwork by Brian Thieme

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Submit a new project

spacegirlariel — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:40:02 +0000

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Luna Philosophie

spacegirlariel — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:28:29 +0000

Luna Philosophie is regular salon and discussion coordinated by the NASA Lunar Science Institute and Spacehack.org, sponsored by Scribd. They occur on (or close to) Full Moons in San Francisco, as part of an effort to bring NASA and space exploration to the San Francisco Bay Area community. Each Luna Philosophie meeting has a different theme, and will involve a presentation and open discussion for philosophizing. Anyone who is interested in an open, creative dialog on human, space related topics is encouraged to attend. Upcoming Luna Philosophies: Hitch-hiking to the Moon (September 23, 2009) To view past Luna Philosophie topics, visit: http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/luna Unable to attend? Watch the livestream of this event or sign up below to receive an email about future Luna Philosophies. Loading...

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About

spacegirlariel — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:11:09 +0000

Spacehack.org is a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. The site launched in November 2008, partially influenced by the NASA Authorization Act of 2008, Sec. 408 Participatory Exploration that called to "facilitate participation by the public, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and international partners". Spacehack.org was developed by: Ariel Waldman, founder With special thanks to Lisa Ballard and Ben Ward, as chief code scientists.

Community Guidelines

spacegirlariel — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:22:57 +0000

Spacehack is intended for public participatory projects related to space exploration. By using Spacehack, you are subject to these Community Guidelines. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Please play nice with our wonderful community of space hackers and don't be a troll. Don't submit projects that the public can't participate in. While it may be really awesome, it doesn't fit the purpose of this site. Also, projects listed here must be open to the public right now, if public participation is coming soon, send us a submission when it goes live. Don't lie. We do our best to verify that the information you submitted about the project and your relation to it is correct, but we will be less than happy with you if you knowingly submit information that is false or misleading. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to modify the Community Guidelines at any time.

Disclaimer

spacegirlariel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:25:20 +0000

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Thacher Scholar Award

spacegirlariel — Wed, 02 May 2007 08:54:48 +0000

A contest for secondary school students (grades 9-12) demonstrating, via a written report, the best use of geospatial technologies or data to study Earth. Eligible geospatial tools and data include satellite remote sensing, aerial photography, geographic information systems (GIS), and Global Positioning System (GPS). Geospatial technologies and data have numerous uses in science research, ranging from archaeology to interactions among the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere and hydrosphere. The main focus of the project must be on the application of geospatial tool(s) or data to study a problem related to Earth's environment. Entries can be submitted by individuals or teams. Project owners + coordinators: Theresa Schwerin, associate director - education Dan Stillman, science communications manager To learn more and participate by April 6, 2009, visit: http://www.strategies.org/education/index.aspx?sub=education&sub2=scholars&sub3=scholars2009

100 Hours of Astronomy

spacegirlariel — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:25:15 +0000

A four-day event designed to bring astronomy to the public around the world. Whether it’s a few hours on one day or a 100-hour marathon event, how groups choose to participate is up to them. One of the key goals of 100 Hours of Astronomy is to have as many people as possible look through a telescope as Galileo did for the first time 400 years ago. Plans should fit the resources and enthusiasm that’s available and typically range from telescope viewing get-togethers, live science centers, research observatory webcasts and sidewalk astronomy events. All activities and events during 100HA will bring astronomy to a new audience. 100 Hours of Astronomy will take place from 2-5 April when the Moon goes from first quarter to gibbous, good phases for early evening observing. Saturn will be the other highlight of early evening observing events. While groups worldwide will be planning their own events, 100 Hours of Astronomy has its own global events that organizations worldwide will take part in:

Opening Event: A VIP event at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia will feature one of Galileo's telescopes.
Live Science Centres Webcast: Select science centres will participate in a live webcast featuring discussions on current topics in astronomy on 2 April. Live observations will be made by visitors to select science centres using telescopes operated remotely over the Internet.
Live 24-hour Research Observatory Webcast: Astronomers at professional research observatories around the world will take viewers inside their telescope domes and control rooms during a live 24-hour webcast on 3 April.
24-hour Global Star Party: For 24 hours on 4 April, telescopes (including solar telescopes) will be made available for public viewing by astronomy clubs and observing groups free of charge.

Project owners + coordinators: Jennie McCormick Mike Simmons, sponsorship opportunities To find an event near you, visit http://100hoursofastronomy.org/find-events To create your own event, visit http://100hoursofastronomy.org/eventsmain To stay up-to-date on this project, subscribe to 100 Hours of Astronomy mailing list

Hubble's Next Discovery

spacegirlariel — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:56:26 +0000

People around the world can vote to select the next object the Hubble Space Telescope will view. In 1609, Galileo turned his telescope on the night sky for the first time. Now, 400 years later, your vote will help make the momentous decision of where to point modern astronomy's most famous telescope. Choose from a list of objects Hubble has never observed before and enter a drawing for one of 100 new Hubble pictures of the winning object. The winning image will be released between April 2 and 5, during the IYA's 100 Hours of Astronomy, a global astronomy event geared toward encouraging as many people as possible to experience the night sky. Project owners + coordinators: Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach To learn more and participate by March 1, 2009, visit: http://youdecide.hubblesite.org

Free Space

spacegirlariel — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:47:15 +0000

Free Space is the first forecasting game from Signtific Lab. Help us imagine what the world will be like when personal satellites, or cubesats, are as cheap and easy to launch as a website is today. The massively multiplayer thought experiment starts on March 9 at 6pm PT and will end March 12 at 2pm PT. Signtific Lab is a public laboratory under the Institute for the Future for developing and sharing cutting edge ideas about the future of science and technology. Signtific Labs invites scientists, engineers, designers, developers, researchers, technologists, and creative thinkers of all kinds to join the lab and help us uncover, together, what is impossible to uncover alone. Project owners + coordinators: Jane McGonigal, director of game research and development Natalie Villalobos To participate before March 12 at 2pm PT, 2009, visit: http://lab.signtific.org (click on "create your player" under Trial 3)

Space Settlement Contest

spacegirlariel — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:35:47 +0000

NASA Ames Research Center

Space settlement needs inexpensive, safe launch systems to deliver thousands, perhaps millions, of people into orbit. Sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center in conjunction with the National Space Society, each spring students (6-12th grade) send their designs for homes in space for judging by NASA engineers and scientists. Individuals, small teams of two to six, and large teams of seven or more (often whole classrooms with teacher leadership) may enter. Project owners + coordinators: Al Globus Bryan Yager To learn more and participate by March 31, 2009, visit: http://nss.org/settlement/nasa/Contest/index.html

Regolith Excavation Challenge

spacegirlariel — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:24:36 +0000

Violet Blue

The Regolith Excavation Challenge allows citizen inventors to participate by applying their talents to develop innovative solutions and new technologies to efficiently excavate lunar regolith. The project is designed to promote the development of mechanical designs to excavate lunar regolith. Excavation is a necessary first step towards lunar resource utilization, and the unique physical properties of lunar regolith make excavation a difficult technical challenge. Advances in lunar regolith excavation have the potential to contribute significantly to the nation’s space exploration operations. The rules will remain very similar to the 2008 competition, with the exception that they plan to allow teams to utilize telerobotic operations. Teams are eligible to receive first, second or third prize of $500k, $150k and $100k, respectively Project owners + coordinators: Matt Everingham To learn more and participate by September 30, 2009, read: the final rules (PDF) To stay up-to-date on this project: • read http://regolith.csewi.org • follow @regolith_chal

Your Voice In Space

spacegirlariel — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A campaign by the British Space Organisation to raise awareness of cultural and global identity within the 14–24 year old age bracket, through the planned launch of a space probe. The probe would be unique in that it would house a two-way transmitter that allows several media forms to be relayed to and from the probe. People are encouraged to answer weekly questions through the use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as YouTube and the BSO main website. These answers are then ‘posted’ into space through the probe. The Bournemouth Media School is the only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice in the UK and offers courses such as Journalism and Communication and Computer Animation. The talents of the students studying for degrees in Television, Interaction Media Production and Scriptwriting have been employed by the BSO. These students are involved not only in the broadcasting surrounding the probe, but also in the day to day running of the websites and other content that the campaign requires. Your Voice in Space is currently looking for sponsors and anyone in the industry who would like to help us achieve our goals. The British Space Organisation (http://britishspace.org.uk) has launched it’s new youth orientated campaign ‘Your Voice In Space’ (http://britishspace.org.uk/yourvoice). The BSO has teamed up with one of the best Media schools in the UK at Bournemouth University in order to combine the knowledge and expertise of the students within the project.

Luna Philosophie

spacegirlariel — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:44:39 +0000

Luna Philosophie is regular salon and discussion originally born out of NASA's CoLab program, now coordinated by the NASA Lunar Science Institute and Spacehack.org, sponsored by Scribd. They occur on (or close to) Full Moons in San Francisco, as part of an effort to bring NASA and space exploration to the San Francisco Bay Area community. Each Luna Philosophie meeting has a different theme, and will involve a presentation and open discussion for philosophizing. Anyone who is interested in an open, creative dialog on human, space related topics is encouraged to attend. Upcoming Luna Philosophies: • TBD Unable to attend? Watch the livestream of this event or sign up below to receive an email about future Luna Philosophies. Previous topics: • Hitch-hiking to the Moon (9.23.09) • When Will We Discover the Extraterrestrials? (11.11.08) • The Dark Side of the Universe (10.16.08) • NASA's High-Impact Return to the Moon (9.17.08) • Who Owns the Moon? (8.20.08) • Partnering with NASA: Innovation Through Collaboration (8.5.08) • Will an Asteroid Hit the Earth? (7.23.08) • Open Source at NASA: 3D Visualization with NASA World Wind (5.21.08) • Control Schemes for Complex Coordinated Human Motion (2.20.08) • Virtual Reality System Engineering Environments for the Space Program (1.9.08) • Viewpoints: Exploratory Data Analysis (11.7.07) • Space Traffic Management (8.27.07) • From Avatar Space to Outer Space (7.30.07) • Spaceship Earth (5.31.07) • Humanity Evolving into Space (5.2.08) Loading...

CSTART

spacegirlariel — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:49:31 +0000

The Collaborative Space Travel and Research Team (CSTART) is a non-government, non-profit, collaborative space agency whose mission is is to organize and finance the efforts of space enthusiasts around the world who are interested in using collaborative design, volunteer labor, innovative, low-cost technology and open data sharing to further the cause of manned and unmanned space exploration and research. Participation is encouraged for anyone who wishes to contribute in any small or large, but meaningful way. CSTART creates open source plans for space travel and research projects, ranging from simple sounding rockets (the OHKLA project) all the way up to manned moon landings (the CLLARE project). They write open source software, including software to help plan space missions, software to run on spacecraft and software to help track and communicate with spacecraft from the ground. CSTART is dedicated to open source design principles, using freely available and open source tools wherever possible, and easily available resources where an open source alternative does not exist. Team members are located around the globe, and are experts in many different areas: physics and engineering, law and business, graphic design, and everything in between. You don’t need to be a scientist or engineer to be involved in CSTART: they need people with experience in business, marketing, law, graphic design and other fields just as much as they need rocket scientists! Project owners + coordinators: Luke Maurits, acting director Ben Miller-Jacobson, acting director Titan Miller, acting director Rizwan Memon, acting director Ryan Pulkrabek, acting director To learn more and participate, visit: http://cstart.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow @cstartorg • read cstart.org/blog • join cstart.org/forum • explore cstart.org/wiki

Galaxy Zoo Supernovae

spacegirlariel — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Open Aerospace

spacegirlariel — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

OAO (www.openaerospace.org) has the mission to create, collect, share, and implement the knowledge and skills that enable the peaceful expansion of humanity into space. It is an online collaboration environment where anyone can contribute to the development of over a hundred elements of an integrated space architecture. All work is freely published for peaceful uses.

setiQuest

spacegirlariel — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:17:24 +0000

photo by Adam Hart-Davis

setiQuest is a community involvement led by the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute that aims to lead to a significant improvement in the ability to search for other intelligent civilizations in the cosmos. You can participate as a software developer or creative data parser. The SETI Institute attempts to find evidence of another civilization's technology via searching for intelligently engineered radio signals using the Allen Telescope Array, and for short bright laser pulses using the optical telescopes at Lick Observatory. The current searches for radio signals from distant technological civilizations can benefit from your creative talents. If you are good at writing efficient code, knowledgeable about digital signal processing, or eager to analyze data streaming from the Allen Telescope Array and would like to participate in open source projects - setiQuest needs you. setiQuest needs your help to manipulate and explore the real-time data from the telescope, and to create the environments that will allow global participation by Earthlings of all ages. If you're a software developer: The code is released gradually in modules rather than all at one time, giving a chance to provide enough documentation and online discussion about each module so that the code will be clear to radio-astronomy hobbyists. At that point SETI's developers will be doing their daily work on the public code repository and will interact with the public through patch submissions and direct reputation building just like with any other open source codebase. If you're a data parsing geek: One of the goals of setiQuest is to start streaming real-time data captured at the Allen Telescope Array so it can be used to feed a number of software clients that allow citizen scientists to screen the data by looking for interesting features that our existing algorithms might otherwise overlook. We have published sample data and draft APIs so you can get started and we're hoping to start pushing real-time data soon. We're hoping to see several clients (visual and otherwise) spring up over the next year or so. Project owners + coordinators: Avinash Agrawal, director of open innovation To learn more and participate, visit: http://setiquest.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • join setiquest.org/forum • explore setiquest.org/wiki/main-page

NASA Make: Challenge

spacegirlariel — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:44:19 +0000

NASA Ames Research Center

A challenge for U.S. citizens to create a suborbital science kit, using easy-to-obtain materials and/or open source code, that enables high school classrooms to conduct experiments on suborbital flights. Finished kits will need to fit inside a standard CubeSat or Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD). A submission to the NASA Make: Challenge will consist of two parts: (1) a written proposal describing the kit and (2) the project documentation described online at Make: Projects. The first experiment kits to be selected will fly aboard the Excelsior STEM mission, an unmanned suborbital mission sponsored by Teachers in Space and scheduled to fly aboard a Masten Space Systems reusable launch vehicle (RLV) in 2011. Experiment kits for the Excelsior STEM mission will be assembled by teachers at a Suborbital Flight Experiment Workshop to be held at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center’s AERO Institute in Palmdale, CA the week of August 1-5, 2011. Kits submitted to the NASA Make: Challenge will be considered “open source hardware.” available to anyone to create and build without restrictions in accordance with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The NASA Make: Challenge is open to all U.S. citizens. Proposers under the age of 18 must include the permission of a parent or guardian to participate. Winners will be honored at Maker Faire, have their project printed in MAKE magazine and receive a tour of NASA Ames Research Center. Project owners + coordinators: Dale Dougherty, founder of Make To learn more and participate by April 30, 2011, visit: http://blog.makezine.com/space/rules

SpaceTech Design Contest

spacegirlariel — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:11:14 +0000

NASA Moonstream rendering by Anthony Sims

U.S. college students are invited to design a technology that will help further space exploration and development. The contest specifically calls for designs within the following technology categories: autonomous operations, entry/descent/landing, human factors, power/propulsion, and robotics.

This initial contest is a paper design only (i.e. you do not need to actually build the instrument). If funding allows, the winning students will be invited to build their design during an awarded internship. The contest expects to offer paid late summer or fall student internships with NASA Field Centers to members of top scoring teams. Where internships are not feasible, the contest may offer travel stipends to attend program field tests or cash awards.

Interested students should email a notice of intent to Dr. Elizabeth Ward as soon as possible.

Project owners + coordinators: Dr. Elizabeth Ward, competition coordinator To learn more and participate by June 1, 2011, visit: http://moontasks.larc.nasa.gov

basilleaf — Tue, 01 May 2012 04:56:00 +0000

Hacking Kepler

spacegirlariel — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Come up with ideas for how to hack NASA's Kepler spacecraft! The

Cube Quest Challenge

basilleaf — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

NASA's Cube Quest Challenge is a $5 million competition for US-based teams to design, build, and deliver flight-qualified small satellites capable of advanced operations near and beyond the moon. Cube Quest teams will have the opportunity to compete for a secondary payload spot on the first mission of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which will launch atop the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The competition happens in 2 phases, ground tournaments and in-space tournaments. The Four Ground Tournaments are underway and are planned at approximately 4-6 month intervals and carry a combined total of 100K in prizes. Competitor Teams seeking a NASA launch opportunity must participate in at least the final ground tournament. The second phase of the challenge are the in-space competitions: The Deep Space Derby and the Lunar Derby. Teams must compete in at least the final Ground Tournament to be eligible to compete in the in-space phase. http://www.nasa.gov/cubequest/howtoenter http://www.nasa.gov/cubequest/reference stay up to date: http://www.nasa.gov/cubequest/details rules http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/ccp_cq_opsrul_001a.pdf schedule: http://www.nasa.gov/cubequest/schedule

HiRISE Clickworkers

spacegirlariel — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:06:33 +0000

Help scientists search for landforms and identify new places to take pictures on Mars. The HiRISE camera, one of the instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, has been sending back high-resolution images of Mars since late 2006. HiRISE Clickworkers was created by one part-time engineer and two very busy scientists at NASA. The project needs volunteers to prove that the public is ready, willing and able to help science so that more ambitious projects with the public may be attempted in the future. Project owners + coordinators: Virginia Gulick, education and public outreach lead Bob Kanefsky, web developer To learn more and participate, visit: http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/hirise

Google Lunar X PRIZE

spacegirlariel — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:27:32 +0000

The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send images and data back to the Earth. Teams must be at least 90% privately funded and must be registered to compete by December 31, 2010. The first team to land on the Moon and complete the mission objectives will be awarded $20 million; the full first prize is available until December 31, 2012. After that date, the first prize will drop to $15 million. The second team to do so will be awarded $5 million. Another $5 million will awarded in bonus prizes. The final deadline for winning the prize is December 31, 2014. Spacehack tip: Team Frednet is an open source, international GLXP team that you can participate in, regardless of background. Lunar Numbat is a team of Australians and New Zealanders who use open source technologies to partner with the GLXP team White Label Space and are open to new participants. robot prototype by Team Italia, view more teams here Project owners + coordinators: Amanda Stiles, online community manager X Prize Foundation contact form To learn more and participate, visit: http://googlelunarxprize.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow @glxp • read thelaunchpad.xprize.org • watch youtube.com/user/googlelunarxprize • connect with facebook.com/googlelunarxprize

Astronaut Glove Challenge

spacegirlariel — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:28:42 +0000

The 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge is designed to promote the development of glove joint technology, resulting in a highly dexterous and flexible glove that can be used by astronauts over long periods of time for space or planetary surface excursions. The challenge is conducted by Volanz Aerospace Inc. in a format that brings all competitors to a single location for a "head to head" competition to determine the winning team(s). Each team is required pass a series of minimum performance requirements and perform a variety of tasks. For the 2009 Challenge, teams must provide a complete glove, which consists of the thermal micrometeoroid garment (TMG), unpowered bladder and bladder-restraint portion of the space suit that covers the hand of an astronaut up to and including the wrist joint. Prizes will be awarded for overall First Place and Second Place in the challenge, and the winner of the Joint Force Test. Prizes provided by NASA Centennial Challenges Program. Team Agreement, prize information and competition dates will be announced at a later time. Project owners + coordinators: Alan Hayes To learn more and participate by November 10, 2009, visit: http://astronaut-glove.us

Elevator:2010

spacegirlariel — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:23:21 +0000

This project is divided into two challenges: Power Beaming and Tether Strength. The Space Elevator vision will not only further space exploration and knowledge, but has the potential to shape the existential future of the human race for centuries to come. Elevator:2010 is designed to address the "social engineering" of the Space Elevator. Taking their cue from the X-prize, solar car races, and various other competitive ventures, Elevator:2010 uses engineering competitions as a tool to capture mind-share in academia, space enthusiast community, and the general public. Prize money is provided by NASA's Centennial Challenges program - a total of $4,000,000 over 5 years! The Power Beaming challenge will continue to influence public perception of the Space Elevator project by demonstrating progressively more accurate (and more impressive!) prototypes of the Space Elevator system. By participating, you get the opportunity to partner in writing this unique chapter of history. In this challenge, the Spaceward Foundation provides the race track, in the form of a vertically-suspended tether, and the competing teams provide Space Elevator prototypes, featuring climbers that have to scale the tether using only power that is transferred to them from the ground using beamed power. The Tether Strength challenge is the single most difficult task in building the Space Elevator -- developing a material that is both strong enough and light enough to support the 60,000 mile long tether. Compared to the best commercially available tether, the challenge needs a material that is almost 25 times better - about as great a leap as from wood to metal. In order to encourage CNT laboratories to pay more attention to the Space Elevator we have posted an open dare to industry and academia: We will award the teams that can come up with the best Space Elevator tether sample, provided that they can beat the best commercial tether on the market by a factor of 2. Project owners + coordinators: The Spaceward Foundation To learn more, visit: http://spaceward.org/elevator2010 To register to participate, email: inbox@spaceward.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • read spaceelevatorblog.com

Dawn Clickworkers

spacegirlariel — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:40:12 +0000

Contribute to the scientific understanding of the surfaces of solar system bodies. Surface features help astronomers learn more about solar system bodies. Developing the critical eye needed to identify and measure surface features in images takes a considerable amount of practice. Clickworkers offers you the opporunity to fine-tune your skills. The Clickworkers program presents a series of images from which you can identify and measure the diameter of craters on two solar system bodies (Mars, Eros). Once you have submitted your crater counts for Eros using the Clickworkers program, the resulting data will be analyzed by the science community. The accumulated measurements of many people provides an accurate measure of the number and size of craters on a body. This information contains clues to the age and impact history of the body's surface. Project owners + coordinators: Christopher T. Russell, Principal Investigator To learn more and participate, visit: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/clickworkers

Team FREDNET

spacegirlariel — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:41:11 +0000

Team FREDNET is an open source, open participation and officially registered competitor in the Google Lunar X PRIZE. Everybody regardless of background and past experience can join the effort and contribute with whatever they can contribute with. There is always room and need for one more.

Project owners + coordinators: Fred J. Bourgeois, III, systems Richard D. Core, software Daniel F. Smith, hardware Alex Ceste, communications Ryan Weed, propulsion Joseph M. Stevenson, education liason Alex Core, web site To learn more, visit: http://frednet.org To participate, email: signup@teamfrednet.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow @teamfrednet • read teamfrednet.blogspot.com • join forum.xprize.frednet.com • explore wiki.xprize.frednet.org

NASA CoLab Island

spacegirlariel — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:39:33 +0000

NASA CoLab Island is a dedicated space in the online virtual world of Second Life. After downloading the Second Life application, you can enter Second Life and visit NASA CoLab Island any time, 24/7. People or groups with ideas for building space-related 3D projects in Second Life can apply to host their project for free on NASA CoLab Island. Projects built on NASA CoLab Island in the past have ranged from a simulated Lunar lava tube habitat built by the Oregon L5 Society, to a 3D interactive information center built for NASA's LCROSS mission. NASA CoLab Island is also the gathering point for a vibrant online community of NASA and non-NASA space enthusiasts in Second Life. Community organizing meetings are held every Tuesday at 1pm Pacific Daylight Time. Project owners + coordinators: Andrew Hoppin To learn more, contact: andrew.hoppin@gmail.com or send an instant message within Second Life to "Drew Frobozz" To participate, visit: http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/slmeeting

Life and Work on the Moon

spacegirlariel — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:51:38 +0000

An art and design contest sponsored by NASA that invites high school and college students to submit their work on the theme "Life and Work on the Moon". Artists/designers are encouraged to collaborate with science and engineering students. Such collaboration is not required, but would help to ensure that the art is valid for the Moon’s harsh environment. Entries will be accepted in three categories: two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and digital, including video. Entries will be evaluated not only on their artistic qualities, but also on whether they depict a valid scenario. Prizes include awards and exhibit opportunities. Project owners + coordinators: Dr. Elizabeth Ward To learn more and participate by April 15, 2010, visit: http://artcontest.larc.nasa.gov/

Moon Work

spacegirlariel — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:03:26 +0000

Design tools and instrumentation packages for the next generation manned moon rover. The NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, the Exploration Technology Development Program, and the Advanced Planning and Partnership Office at Langley Research Center encourage college students to get involved with NASA's return to the Moon by helping to design the tools and instrument pages needed for the next generation manned moon rover. Student projects will tackle real problems required for a successful manned lunar mission. The contest is open to any student enrolled in an accredited college or university in the US or its territories. Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged, across departments and institutions. An email notice of intent is due as soon as possible and final entries are due on or before December 15, 2009. Project owners + coordinators: Dr. Elizabeth Ward To learn more and participate, visit: http://moontasks.larc.nasa.gov

SEDSAT-2

spacegirlariel — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:44:45 +0000

SEDS

An educational satellite project involving student members from over 16 different nations and 5 continents. SEDSAT-2 stands for Students for the Exploration and Development of Space Satellite-2. The mission is to build a remote-sensing CubeSat using international collaboration. Initiated in late 2006 the project is scheduled for final integration by mid 2010. The project is currently in the beginnings of the design phase, evaluating different approaches and technical implementations. The vision is not only to design and launch a picosatellite but also to provide the participant with a valuable learning experience, bringing together people from different continents and different backgrounds to achieve a common goal. The payload team is currently looking for 2-3 individuals who are interested in contributing to the development and construction of the SEDSAT-II payload system. This will involve creating hardware and software for an embedded platform that must be designed to be robust enough to operate reliably in the harsh conditions of outer space. Additional volunteers and sponsors (e.g. a student willing to participate or a professional interested in becoming an adviser) are also welcome to participate. Project owners + coordinators: SEDSAT-2 core committee To learn more, visit: http://sedsat2.seds.org To participate, apply for consideration at: http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/SEDSAT-2_Team_Application To stay up-to-date on this project: • explore wiki.seds.org/index.php/SEDSAT-2

LCROSS Amateur Observation

spacegirlariel — Sat, 19 May 2007 22:18:08 +0000

A NASA mission to search for water on the moon needs help from citizen scientists with 10-12" aperture telescopes to observe a lunar impact in early October. The project is actively asking for you to send in your images of the impact. These images will provide a valuable addition to the archive of data chronicling the impact and its aftermath. The LCROSS mission is going to search for ice crystals by sending a rocket crashing into the moon causing a big impact and creating a crater, throwing tons of debris and potentially water ice and vapor above the lunar surface. This impact will release materials from the lunar surface that will be analyzed for the presence of hydrated minerals which would tell researchers if water is there or not. This crash will be so big that we on Earth may be able to view the resulting plume of material it ejects with a good amateur telescope. The impact ejecta cloud should be in view of Earth assets just several seconds after impact and will peak in brightness around 30-100 seconds after impact. Mission scientists estimate that the Centaur impact plume may be visible through amateur-class telescopes with apertures as small as 10 to 12 inches. Projected lunar impact is on October 9, 2009 at 11:30 UT (7:30 a.m. EDT, 4:30 a.m. PDT), +/- 30 minutes. The impact time will be refined as the mission progresses. Two weeks prior to impact, the impact time will be known to within a second. LCROSS will impact at the south pole of the Moon. The final site selection will be made 30 days prior to impact. Additional information and a call for proposals to fund astronomer time and travel in support of LCROSS observations will be available soon – contact Jennifer Heldmann for additional information. Project owners + coordinators: Brian Day Jennifer Heldmann To learn more and participate, visit: http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/observation.htm and http://apps.nasa.gov/lcross/about/ and the Google group community discussions

MiniSpaceWorld Contest

spacegirlariel — Thu, 24 May 2007 06:22:58 +0000

Ferenc Gál

MiniSpaceWorld aims to create a spectacular scale model world for space flight and astronomy. Light and sound effects, day and night simulations in the different Worlds, historical and modern vehicles in motion, and representation of future life scenes will enrich the visitors’ experience. Under the motto "Space for Everybody", MiniSpaceWorld will also explicitly feature products already use in our everyday life today that originated from space activities. The MSW Design Contest is a contest open for participants worldwide about imagining various parts of MiniSpaceWorld, a lively scale model exhibit about spaceflight and astronomy. Participants shall create a high-level content design including a theme description, map and graphical representations. The themes covered by MSW are extremely rich and vivid, with billions of lovely facets: this is without doubt true also for our closest celestial companion - our Moon, which is the topic of the 2010 Design Contest. The themes of the design are free to choose: they can feature historical missions like the Apollo flights or the Lunokhod, imagine first permanent colonies, show a complete "Moon city" with all the necessary facilities, or present future activities like regolith processing and mining of various minerals. Project owners + coordinators: Dr. Tibor Pacher To learn more and participate by September 30, 2010, visit: the MSW Design Contest Overview

CERN Multimedia Contest

spacegirlariel — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:42:56 +0000

ATLAS experiment at CERN

ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. They are about to kick-start the most complex scientific project ever conceived by mankind, and would like you to witness and record its unveiling, and help them spread the news. The ATLAS detector will search for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons of extraordinarily high energy. ATLAS will learn about the basic forces that have shaped our Universe since the beginning of time and that will determine its fate. Among the possible unknowns are the origin of mass, extra dimensions of space, microscopic black holes, and evidence for dark matter candidates in the Universe. Show your communication skills and unbridled creativity by producing an original short film or multimedia piece, incorporating material about ATLAS, the biggest experiment on the LHC. The best submissions will be posted on the ATLAS website and YouTube page with full credit to the author, and enter a competition for a paid internship at CERN or alternatively win a Adobe Production Suite package. The winner will be offered a trip to CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and given exclusive access to scientists working on the project as well as all the equipment and expertise in CERN's audiovisual lab. Project owners + coordinators: The ATLAS Experiment To learn more and participate by July 31, 2009, visit: http://www.atlas.ch/contest/

Lunar Lander Challenge

spacegirlariel — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:34:15 +0000

XPF

An incentive competition designed to accelerate technology developments supporting the commercial creation of a vehicle capable of ferrying cargo or humans back and forth between lunar orbit and the lunar surface. Such a vehicle would have direct application to space exploration goals as well as the personal spaceflight industry. Additionally, the prize will help industry to build new vehicles with enhanced safety and performance, and to develop the operational capacity for quick turnaround vertical take-off, vertical landing flight, which will be of significant use to many facets of the commercial launch procurement market. The remaining Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge purse of $1,650,000, funded by NASA, is divided into two levels: Level One, worth a total of $150,000, and Level Two, worth a total of $1,500,000. To win prize money in either level, a rocket-propelled vehicle with an assigned payload must take-off vertically, climb to a defined altitude, fly for a pre-determined amount of time, then land vertically on a target that is a fixed distance from the take-off point. After remaining at this location for a period of time, the vehicle must take-off, fly for a pre-determined amount of time, and land again on its original launch pad. The primary difference between the two levels will be in the time of flight, the surface terrain at one of the landing sites, and the corresponding degree of difficulty presented for precision landing and servicing of the vehicles. Project owners + coordinators: William Pomerantz, senior director Cristin Lindsay, vice president To learn more and participate by September 17, 2009, visit: http://space.xprize.org/lunar-lander-challenge

Lunabotics Mining

spacegirlariel — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:20:27 +0000

Advances in lunar regolith mining have the potential to significantly contribute to NASA space exploration operations. The Lunabotics Mining Competition uses excavation, a necessary first step towards extracting resources from the regolith and building bases on the Moon. The teams that can use telerobotic or autonomous operation to excavate the most lunar regolith simulant within a 15-minute time limit will win the competition. The unique physical properties of lunar regolith and the reduced 1/6th gravity, vacuum environment make excavation a difficult technical challenge. The competition will be conducted by NASA at Kennedy Space Center. The prize funding for the Lunabotics Student Mining Competition is provided by NASA. The minimum excavation requirement is 10.0 kg, and the excavation hardware mass limit is 80.0 kg. Undergraduate and graduate student teams enrolled in a U.S. or international college or university are eligible to enter. A group of universities also may work in collaboration on an excavator project entry. Multidisciplinary teams are encouraged. Competition rules can be downloaded at http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/390619main_lunaboticsrules.pdf. Project owners + coordinators: Susan Sawyer, ESMD Space Grant Project Specialist To learn more and participate by November 30, 2011, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/lunabotics To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/lunabotics • connect with facebook.com/lunabotics

NASA ESMD Competition

spacegirlariel — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:27:18 +0000

Join NASA’s mission to bring us to the Moon, Mars and beyond by submitting a research paper on one of the four ESMD topics listed below. Your research may be used as the solution to current NASA challenges. Open to students who are United States citizens in an undergraduate or graduate studies program. 1. Spacecraft Landing and Recovery Architecture: Historical Approaches and Ideas for the Future 2. Synergistic degradation effects of materials exposed to radiation, micrometeors, thermal sinks and lunar dust 3. Loading of Cryogenic Propellant in Space Launch Vehicle 4. Determination of the Optimum Internal Cockpit Layout Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) was developed by NASA specifically to create a constellation of new capabilities, supporting technologies and foundational research that enables sustained and affordable human and robotic exploration. Project owners + coordinators: Diane Ingraham Gloria Murphy To learn more and participate by January 25, 2010, visit: http://education.ksc.nasa.gov/esmdspacegrant/ResearchPaper.htm

Hackerspaces in Space

spacegirlariel — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:33:26 +0000

Photo by Andrew Gerrand (Noisebridge)

Inspired by many recent amateur weather balloon endeavors across the U.S., Hackerspaces in Space aims to turn this phenomenon into a full- fledged competition. The project challenges international hackerspaces to send a weather balloon, with payload, into near-space to capture pictures of Earth's horizon, to return the payload safely to the ground, and to retrieve the payload.

The launches can begin immediately and end on November 28, 2011. New for this year: teams will keep design documentations to be reviewed by the contest judges. Winning designs will be made available to a few lucky K-12 students in order to help discover that space is within their reach. At the end of competition teams will submit their results and pictures to be judged on a variety of criteria like: retrieval time, weight of payload, and total cost of the project.

The competition is being coordinated by Workshop 88, Chicago’s only suburban hackerspace.

Project owners + coordinators: Rudy Ristich, event organizer Jay Margalus, event organizer

To learn more and participate by November 28, 2011, visit: http://hackerspacesinspace.com/

Mapping Dark Matter

spacegirlariel — Sat, 26 May 2007 04:28:07 +0000

A competition to develop new algorithms that measure the tiny distortions in galaxy images caused by dark matter. The challenge is to measure the ellipticity of 100,000 simulated galaxies. There are many ways to estimate ellipticity - part of the challenge is to develop new ways, or apply different ways, of doing this. The aim is to measure the shapes of galaxies in order to reconstruct the gravitational lensing signal in the presence of noise and a known Point Spread Function. The signal is a very small change in the galaxies’ ellipticity, (e.g. an exactly circular galaxy image would be changed into an ellipse). By submitting an entry in the challenge you agree that a discussion of the method may appear in an article that will be submitted to a scientific journal for publication. All participants are encouraged to provide code and documentation of their methods. Winning participants are required to provide code, as well as a description of their algorithm in document form. The prize will be an expenses paid trip to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California to attend the GREAT10 challenge workshop "Image Analysis for Cosmology". Project owners + coordinators: Thomas D. Kitching To learn more and participate by August 18, 2011, visit: http://kaggle.com/c/mdm

hackerSPACE Workshop

spacegirlariel — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:45:22 +0000

photo by Wayne Hall

A hands-on workshop, occurring November 11-12 in Lexington, Kentucky, to learn how to design, engineer and assemble a small orbiting or suborbital spacecraft. While learning how to design and build your own fully functional orbital spacecraft, you will work with a team of space professionals and engineers led by Bob Twiggs, Emeritus professor and former director of the Space Systems Development Lab at Stanford University, now professor at Morehead State University and also with Kentucky Space. Bob is credited with inventing the CubeSat spacecraft, which is now helping to revolutionize space, putting it within reach of more people than ever. The workshop will also cover:

What systems are required to build a fully operational spacecraft;
About the range of potential satellite “apps”.
The kinds of tests your craft will have to pass before it can be launched;
About possible launch opportunities including NASA’s ElaNa program;
About building partnerships with NASA, DOD and other organizations;
How to raise the funds for your project(s) and, most importantly;
How to ward off the jealous neighbors.

Registration costs $75 for students and $150 for non-students. Project owners + coordinators: Wayne Hall To learn more and register by October 28, 2011, visit: http://kentuckyspace.com

YouTube Space Lab

spacegirlariel — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:34:27 +0000

NASA

An internationally open competition inviting 14 - 18 year olds to come up with an idea for a science experiment that can be conducted in space (250 miles above Earth!). You don't have to actually do the experiment, you just have to record yourself explaining it. The YouTube community and a panel of distinguished scientists, astronauts and expert judges, including Professor Stephen Hawking, will pick the best ones. If your video is selected, it will be performed aboard the International Space Station and live streamed on YouTube to the world in 2012. If you're crowned global winner, you get the choice to either watch the rocket blast off with your idea on it in Japan OR take a specially tailored astronaut training course in Russia when you turn 18. There are other amazing prizes for the runners-up too. YouTube Space Lab is a collaboration between YouTube, Lenovo, Space Adventures, NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Project owners + coordinators: The YouTube Space Lab Team To learn more and participate by December 7, 2011, visit: http://youtube.com/SpaceLab

ISS EarthKAM

spacegirlariel — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:17:52 +0000

A NASA education program that provides unique, high quality photographs of our planet taken by middle school students. Using the web to direct a digital camera on space flights and the International Space Station, select middle schools request images based upon their classroom investigations. Teachers, school administrators, and other youth organization leaders are allowed to sign up for ISS EarthKAM with their group of students. The program enables students, teachers and the public to learn about Earth from the unique perspective of space. The image collection and accompanying learning guides and activities are extraordinary resources to support classes in Earth science, space science, geography, social studies, mathematics, communications and even art. Since the program's inception in 1996, the ISS EarthKAM camera has flown on five Space Shuttle flights and taken almost 5000 images. Currently, the camera resides on the International Space Station. Project owners + coordinators: Karen Flammer, advisor Liz Kain, curator To learn more and register to participate as an educator, visit: https://earthkam.ucsd.edu/register To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/EarthKAM_Live • connect with facebook.com/pages/EarthKAM/316578156051

Great World Wide Star Count

spacegirlariel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:51:38 +0000

This project was designed to encourage students, families and interested citizens to record observations of the quality of their nighttime sky (including specific constellations - Cygnus in the Northern Hemisphere, Sagittarius in the Southern Hemisphere) and share that data with others via the GWWSC website. Interested individuals have the opportunity to get involved by making observations, and collecting and reporting data. The GWWSC is a useful project for teaching about the impact of artificial lighting on local environments and in raising awareness about the ongoing loss of people’s ability to study or simply enjoy the night sky in many parts of the world. Students can explore the different light sources in their community learning the relationship between science, technology and their society, as well as investigate the economic and environmental impacts of light on a local and global scale. Participation in GWWSC is open to anyone, anywhere, who can go outside in the early evening and look upwards. There are five simple steps to follow: 1. Determine which constellation to observe 2. Find that constellation about an hour after sunset 3. Match the nighttime sky with one of seven magnitude charts 4. Report observations using a simple online form 5. View the results In 2009, GWWSC (October 9-23, 2009) will participate in “Dark Skies are a Universal Resource,” one of seven primary US themes being developed for the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) in 2009. Project owners + coordinators: starcount_info@ucar.edu To learn more and participate, visit: http://windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/starcount/index.html To stay up-to-date on this project: • subscribe to mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/starcount

Vision Workbench

spacegirlariel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:25:42 +0000

The VW is a general purpose image processing and computer vision library developed by the Autonomous Systems and Robotics (ASR) Area in the Intelligent Systems Division at the NASA Ames Research Center. VW has been publicly released under the terms of the NASA Open Source Software Agreement. They are working to establish out a process through which outside parties can actively participate as developers on this project. The VW was implemented in the C++ programming language and makes extensive use of C++ templates and generative programming techniques for conciseness of expression, efficiency of operation, and generalization of implementation. The intended audience for the VW includes computer vision and robotics researchers and developers, as well as those who simply want to transform or enhance images. At this point in time, the VW may not be suitable for those who have little experience or familiarity with C++. While substantial functionality is implemented in the VW, the goal of the library is not to provide advanced cutting-edge image processing or computer vision capabilities. Rather, the intent is to provide a solid efficient foundation implementing well known techniques and a common framework for doing advanced research and development in collaboration with others. The NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline (ASP) is one of the flagship applications based on the Vision Workbench and is looking for contributors. ASP is a suite of automated geodesy & stereogrammetry tools designed for processing planetary imagery captured from orbiting and landed robotic explorers on other planets. It was designed to process stereo imagery captured by NASA spacecraft and produce cartographic products including digital elevation models (DEMs), ortho-projected imagery, and 3D models. These data products are suitable for science analysis, mission planning, and public outreach. The Vision Workbench resulted from a collaboration between IRG and the Adaptive Control and Evolvable Systems (ACES) group to more effectively leverage technical expertise embodied in disparate ASR image processing and computer vision code bases by developing a framework implementing common functionality and providing a common infrastructure for collaboration and reuse of code. Project owners + coordinators: Vision Workbench project manager To learn more, visit: http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/projects/visionworkbench To contribute code, email: vision-workbench-owner@lists.nasa.gov To stay up-to-date on this project: • email vision-workbench-request@lists.nasa.gov an empty message with the subject ’subscribe’ (without the quotes)

PlanetQuest Collaboratory

spacegirlariel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:24:50 +0000

The PlanetQuest Collaboratory will turn your computer (Mac, PC, Linux, and others) into a virtual astronomical observatory that you can use to make and share real scientific discoveries. Our telescopes are focused on extremely dense star regions, such as the center of the galaxy in Sagittarius, and when an observing run ends and thousands of images have been collected, data will be downloaded to your computer and your Collaboratory software will begin analyzing it. You can classify stars no one has cataloged before, use the Collaboratory to do your own research, and maybe even find a new planet! The project is currently in development and alpha testing. PQ Collaboratory has the world's first automated rapid light curve production facility, which you can watch as it works on your data. It takes raw pixel data from observations and corrects and normalizes, given input constraints and PlanetQuest optimization algorithms. The Stellar Neighborhood Explorer module allows users to explore the region around the star they are currently working on. It uses RA and Dec coordinates to overlay onto a navigable starmap, giving you an opportunity to explore the neighborhood and learn about the nearby stellar bodies and formations around them. Additionally, the Planet Formation Modeling is an optional experiment that allows you to run hypothesis tests using given mathematical models to understand how and why planets form. The Collaboratory returns the degree of correlation for given models, allowing you to help scientists learn how and why planets form! Interact and see who's working on stars nearby you in the sky and strike up a conversation! You can meet friends while you learn about the universe together. Create science teams with your new friends. Collaborate with other astronomers around the world to track and report on astronomical events. The Collaboratory provides an easy way to record your observations and share your discoveries with the world! Project owners + coordinators: info@planetquest.org To learn more and participate, visit: http://planetquest.org/download To stay up-to-date on this project: • subscribe to planetquest.org/newsletter.html

My NASA Data

spacegirlariel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:51:05 +0000

Mentoring and inquirY using NASA Data for Atmospheric and earth science for Teachers and Amateurs (MY NASA DATA) is a project to enable K-12 teachers and students, as well as citizen scientists, to explore the large volumes of data that NASA collects about the Earth from space. A main goal of the MY NASA DATA project is to remove the barriers (such as file size and format, and complicated computer tools) that prevent the use of authentic NASA Earth System Science data in the classroom or by the interested public. Students use scientific inquiry and math skills as they access and display microsets of the Earth System. A microset is a small amount of data - perhaps a single parameter for the whole globe; or a time series for a single location - extracted from a much larger data file. It is in a simple format, such as plain text, or accessible through a user-friendly tool. In addition to the microsets, the MY NASA DATA website offers a collection of lesson plans to help you get started with data exploration. How to participate: * Use the Live Access Server to discover data to help teach concepts in your curriculum * Contribute a lesson plan you develop or submit student projects * Interact in the e-Mentor network * Give feedback on the website, lesson plans, data microsets and tools Project owners + coordinators: Dr. Lin Chambers, principal investigator Carrie Phelps, web developer Penny Oots, database administrator Susan Moore, education specialist Erica Alston, curriculum developer Joyce Fischer, administrative assistant Dennis Diones, web developer To learn more, visit: http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov

Stardust@Home

spacegirlariel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:01:08 +0000

Together, you and thousands of other Stardust@Home participants will find the first pristine interstellar dust particles ever brought to Earth. Nestled within the Stardust spacecraft's capsule in 2006 were precious particles collected during its dramatic encounter with comet Wild 2 and something else, even rarer and no less precious: tiny particles of interstellar dust that originate in distant stars, light-years away. They are the first such pristine particles ever collected in space, and scientists are eagerly waiting for their chance to "get their hands" on them. Before they can be studied, though, these tiny interstellar grains will have to be found. This will not be easy. They are tiny-only about a micron (a millionth of a meter) in size! These miniscule particles are embedded in an aerogel collector 1,000 square centimeters in size. To make things worse the collector plates are interspersed with flaws, cracks, and an uneven surface. All this makes the interstellar dust particles extremely difficult to locate. If we were doing this project twenty years ago, we would have searched for the tracks through a high-magnification microscope. Because the view of the microscope is so small, we would have to move the microscope more than 1.6 million times to search the whole collector. This is so much work, that even starting twenty years ago, we would still be doing it today! This is where you come in: By asking for help from talented volunteers like you from all over the world, we can do this project in months instead of years. To find the elusive particles we are using an automated scanning microscope to automatically collect images of the entire Stardust interstellar collector at the Curatorial Facility at Johnson Space Center in Houston. We call these stacks of images focus movies. All in all there will be nearly a million such focus movies. These are available to Stardust@home users like you around the world. You can then view them with the aid of a special Virtual Microscope (VM) that works in your web browser. In recognition of the critical importance of the Stardust@home volunteers, the discoverer of an interstellar dust particle will appear as a co-author on any scientific paper by the Stardust@home collaboration announcing the discovery of the particle. The discoverer will also have the privilege of naming the particle! To also recognize the efforts of our volunteers who work hard, but may not have found a particle, we will invite the top-ranked volunteers to come visit our lab in Berkeley for a special tour. (Unfortunately, we are legally precluded from covering travel expenses.) Project owners + coordinators: The Stardust@Home Team To participate and learn more, visit: http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu To stay up-to-date on this project: • join stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum

SETI@home

spacegirlariel — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:43:13 +0000

In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this idea. SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology. Radio telescope signals consist primarily of noise (from celestial sources and the receiver's electronics) and man-made signals such as TV stations, radar, and satellites. Modern radio SETI projects analyze the data digitally. More computing power enables searches to cover greater frequency ranges with more sensitivity. Radio SETI, therefore, has an insatiable appetite for computing power. Previous radio SETI projects have used special-purpose supercomputers, located at the telescope, to do the bulk of the data analysis. SETI@home was originally launched in May 1999. Project owners + coordinators: SETI@home project personnel To learn more and participate, visit: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu To stay up-to-date on this project: • join setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_community.php

Radio JOVE

spacegirlariel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:57:46 +0000

The Radio JOVE project is a hands-on inquiry-based educational project that allows students, teachers and the general public to learn about radio astronomy by building their own radio telescope from an inexpensive kit and/or using remote radio telescopes through the internet. Radio JOVE students and amateur scientists observe and analyze natural radio emissions of Jupiter, the Sun, and our galaxy. Participants also collaborate with each other through interactions and sharing of data on the network. The Radio JOVE project began in 1998. Since then, more than 1100 teams of students and interested individuals have purchased our non-profit radio telescope kits and are learning radio astronomy by building and operating a radio telescope. This self-supporting program continues to thrive and inspire new groups of students as well as individuals. Project owners + coordinators: Radio JOVE project office To learn more and participate, visit: http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov

DASHlink

spacegirlariel — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:31:26 +0000

A virtual laboratory for scientists and engineers to disseminate results and collaborate on research problems in health management technologies for aeronautics systems. DASHlink (Discovery in Aeronautics Systems Health) supports innovation by allowing researchers to overcome the limitations of distance and disparate specialties, and by providing access to the latest research, discussion forums, aviation data sets, and data analysis algorithms. Project owners + coordinators: Dawn McIntosh, team lead Francesca Barrientos, PhD, website design lead Elizabeth Foughty, outreach lead Chris Fattarsi, website development lead Dave Kluck, website programmer Sergey Yentus, website programmer Bryan Matthews, website design Ray McIntosh, graphic artist Eric Titolo, website design To learn more, visit: https://c3.nasa.gov/dashlink To participate, register at: https://c3.nasa.gov/dashlink/auth/register/

INSPIRE Project

spacegirlariel — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:54:21 +0000

A non-profit scientific, educational project whose objective is to bring the excitement of observing natural and man-made radio waves to high school students. Underlying this objective is the conviction that science and technology are the underpinnings of our modern society, and that only with an understanding of science and technology can people make correct decisions in their lives, public, professional, and private. INSPIRE (Interactive NASA Space Physics Ionosphere Radio Experiment) also is an innovative, unique opportunity for students to actively gather data that might be used in a basic research project. The INSPIRE project uses build-it-yourself kits to measure and record VLF emissions such as tweeks, whistlers, sferics, and chorus along with man-made emissions. Project owners + coordinators: Kathleen Franzen, president To learn more, visit: http://theinspireproject.org To participate, order a kit at: http://theinspireproject.org/index.php?page=order_vlf_receiver_kits To stay up-to-date on this project: • connect with facebook.com/pages/The-Inspire-Project-Inc/103161976385633

Celestia

spacegirlariel — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:12:51 +0000

An open-source, photo-realistic, real-time, three-dimensional viewing of the solar system, the galaxy and the universe. Celestia is an easy to use, freely-distributed, multi-platform, open source, software package which has become a valuable tool for astronomy education. Used in homes, schools, museums and planetariums around the world, it also is used as a visualization tool by space mission designers. Versions are available for computers running Windows, Macintosh (Mac OS X) and Linux operating systems. Although it is optimized for 3D astronomical visualization, Celestia can be used to display and explore other 3D environments, too. Celestia is an open-source project. As such, its source code is provided and is freely modifiable and redistributable as per the GNU Public License. Project owners + coordinators: Chris Laurel To learn more and participate, visit: http://shatters.net/celestia/ To stay up-to-date on this project: • join shatters.net/forum • explore en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia

Open Luna Foundation

spacegirlariel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:40:53 +0000

A stepped program of robotic missions that seek to return mankind to the lunar surface, and to do it in such a way that it is accessible to everyone. The Open Luna Foundation is open source and invites everyone (hardware providers, writers, wiki-editors, designers, etc.) to contribute and share what you want to do and what science you would like to see done on their wiki. One of their specific aims is to reach out to the community and educational systems to spread interest, enthusiasm, and involvement. Following these purely robotic missions, a short series of manned missions will construct a small, approximately 6 person settlement based on a location scouted by the robotic missions. This settlement will be open for anyone's use (private individuals to government agencies), provided they respect the ethical conduct and heritage policies. Currently, most of the work on the missions is being done on the wiki. Project owners + coordinators: Paul Graham, project manager Dr. Gary E. Snyder Jr., P.E., chief engineer Melissa Battler, planetary geologist / science team lead Richard M. Reeser, CPA, treasurer Emily Colvin, marketing resources lead Chantelle Baier, public relations team lead Kelley Sands, marketing materials / artist To learn more and participate, visit: http://openluna.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/openluna • connect with facebook.com/group.php?gid=25185584153

Night Sky Network

spacegirlariel — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:38:53 +0000

A network of amateur astronomy clubs around the U.S. who hold events for the public (e.g. star parties, planetarium shows, classrooms, etc.). The Night Sky Network is a nationwide coalition that regularly shares their knowledge, time, and telescopes to bring amazing aspects of astronomy to you (it's essentially a one-stop-shopping site to find a club or event in your town). The network is a partnership of amateur astronomy clubs, NASA, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the Astronomical League. Project owners + coordinators: Night Sky Network team To learn more, visit: http://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm To participate, find a club with upcoming events near you at: http://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/club-map.cfm

Mars Student Imaging Project

spacegirlariel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:28:48 +0000

NASA and Arizona State University’s Mars Education Program is offering students in the U.S. the opportunity to be involved in authentic Mars research by participating in the Mars Student Imaging Project (MSIP). Teams of students in grades 5 through college sophomore level will have the opportunity to work with scientists, mission planners and educators on the THEMIS team at ASU’s Mars Space Flight Facility or via distance learning, to image a site on Mars using the THEMIS visible wavelength camera onboard the Mars Odyssey spacecraft which is currently orbiting Mars every 2 hours. To get involved, students must have an adult facilitator to lead their team of at least 8 students. In order to accommodate the needs of classrooms across the nation, there are 3 ways in which to participate in MSIP: On-Site Format, Distance Learning Format, and Archived-Data Format. Project owners + coordinators: MSIP team Jessica Swann, project staff To participate, visit: http://mars.nasa.gov/msip/

Global Telescope Network

spacegirlariel — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:15:24 +0000

A project that allows individuals or groups to dedicate some portion of their time to analyzing data taken with other people's telescopes. The Global Telescope Network is a network of small telescopes around the world for the purpose of supporting the science of NASA and ESA high energy astrophysics missions, including XMM-Newton, Swift and GLAST. These missions are designed to study astronomical objects through their emission of x-rays and gamma rays. However, much can be learned by combining observations over a broad range in the electromagnetic spectrum. The GTN has been assembled to make observations in the optical that will compliment the observations done at higher energies by space-borne observatories. Project owners + coordinators: Dr. Kevin McLin To learn more, visit: http://gtn.sonoma.edu To participate, visit: http://gtn.sonoma.edu/join/index.php

Telescope Makers' Workshop

spacegirlariel — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:13:06 +0000

[caption id="attachment_746" align="alignleft" width="310"] Photo via Steve Wilhelm[/caption] Open to all ages and free to attend, the Telescope Makers’ Workshop is an all-volunteer group committed to helping people build their own telescopes. Bring your interest and curiosity, and they'll provide knowledge, enthusiasm, and advice to help you complete your telescope-making projects. No experience necessary. You will be expected to buy your own materials, including a mirror blank, a grinding tool, a rinse bucket, a spray bottle and paper towels. The workshop carries a small stock of mirror kits for sale at cost, and we can provide you with the names of other sources. The typical 8”-diameter telescope mirror blank and tool cost under $150. A completed 8” telescope on a wooden Dobsonian mount can be built for under $300, compared to $400 - $900 for a commercially-made one. The Telescope Makers’ Workshop is held every Friday night from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., excluding major holidays that fall on Fridays. The Workshop is always closed on Memorial Day Weekend. Attendance every Friday night is not mandatory, and members work at their own pace. The Workshop meets in its new quarters in California at the new Chabot Space & Science Center, 10000 Skyline Blvd., Oakland. Project owners + coordinators: Richard Ozer To learn more and participate, visit: http://www.chabotspace.org/visit/telescopeworkshop.asp

Flight Analogs Project

spacegirlariel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:43:05 +0000

Help NASA get astronauts to the Moon and Mars. Future space exploration will challenge NASA to answer many critical questions about how humans can live and work for extended missions away from Earth. Currently, researchers are working to reduce the effects of space flight on the human body. To accomplish this, researchers study healthy test subjects from the general population on Earth, in a way that causes some of the changes the body goes through while traveling in space without gravity. By eliciting on Earth physiologic responses similar to those experienced by the human body in space, scientists can test and refine theories and procedures to deepen our understanding and develop countermeasures to protect humans from the effects of space travel. In the Flight Analogs Project investigations, volunteers are in a controlled research environment, spending various periods in bed to simulate spaceflight, in the Flight Analog Research Center located within the General Clinical Research Center at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, Texas). Individuals selected for screening will receive a physical examination at no cost. Once medically qualified, subjects will be compensated for their time spent for the required psychological assessment and any additional screening. Researchers monitor how the subjects' bodies change over the course of the study and how quickly they recover once they are allowed to resume normal activities. Two primary goals of the studies are (1) to determine which systems in the body react to the simulated limited gravity environment in the same manner that the astronauts' bodies change in space and (2) to develop new and novel ways of preventing the adverse changes seen in the flight analogs. The methods used to prevent these adverse changes are called countermeasures and if successful, they will lead the way to new methods of counteracting the adverse effects of space travel on our astronauts. Countermeasure and Functional Testing Study (CFT) 70-day trial to study healthy non-smokers aged 25-55 as if they were in space without gravity, to determine if exercise machines contribute to cardiovascular and metabolic health. Use of vertical treadmill and resistance lifting in between periods of head down tilt bed rest with specific diet will determine which mission tasks might be affected by changes in physiology during space flight. All studies pays $160 per day. Alternate Compression Garment Study (ACG) 34-day trial to determine effectiveness of compression garments on regulating blood pressure and other systems after bed rest. Participants in the experimental group will wear custom-fit compression garments and undergo evaluation on their response to an upright tilt test and a corresponding set of physiological measures. These participants will be compared to another group of participants who did not wear the garments. Results of the study will help scientists determine the time it takes for the cardiovascular system to re-adapt to upright posture. Project owners + coordinators: LaRona Smith, NASA official Human Test Subject Facility To participate, apply at: https://bedreststudy.jsc.nasa.gov/apply.aspx

Solar Stormwatch

spacegirlariel — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:25:51 +0000

[caption id="attachment_1007" align="alignleft" width="310"] Photo by NASA[/caption] Learn how to spot solar explosions and track them across space to Earth. Your work could make a new scientific discovery as well as give astronauts an early warning if dangerous radiation is headed their way. You'll also find out how to pinpoint comets, particle strikes and optical effects, and how to make detailed storm measurements. Even on a quiet day, the Sun’s a whirling ball of energy - intense magnetic fields churn and pummel its atmosphere. But sometimes, huge solar explosions hurl billions of tons of material across the solar system and out into space. Scientists call them coronal mass ejections, or CMEs for short. We call them solar storms – and scientists need your help to discover how they begin and evolve, as well as forecast their arrival time at Earth. Solar storms on a collision course with Earth are harmful to astronauts in orbit and have the potential to knock out communication satellites, disrupt mobile phone networks and damage power lines. On the plus side, they also spark the beautiful atmospheric reactions better known as the northern and southern lights, or aurora. The project uses near-real time data from space. Every hour NASA's STEREO spacecraft, a pair of satellites in orbit around the Sun, send a compressed 'beacon mode' data packet back to Earth. This means you can help detect Earth-bound solar storms up to three days before they reach us. These detections get pinged to Twitter as a space weather forecast. Solar Stormwatch was created by The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in partnership with the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Zooniverse (the Galaxy Zoo team at Oxford University). Project owners + coordinators: Fiona Romeo, Royal Observatory Greenwich Natasha Waterson, Royal Observatory Greenwich To learn more and participate, visit: http://solarstormwatch.com To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow @solarstormwatch • read blogs.zooniverse.org/solarstormwatch • join forum.solarstormwatch.com • look at flickr.com/photos/solarstormwatch

MilkyWay@Home

spacegirlariel — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:41:48 +0000

Richard Bell

MilkyWay@home is a distributed computing project, harnessing the power of volunteered computers to create a highly accurate 3D model of the Milky Way galaxy. The project uses data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. By volunteering a percentage of your computer's unused operating power, your computer will focus on mapping out a small section of our galaxy. MilkyWay@Home's data, source code, research and results are open source and available for public use. In general, an astrophysics problem revolves around creating a computer system model that will replicate what we see in the sky – if a model matches exactly then we can leapfrog off that information to work on a bigger, more involved problem. MilkyWay@Home is currently focusing on the Sagittarius stream, which provides knowledge about how our galaxy was formed and how tidal tails are created when galaxies merge. The general idea is that our galaxy actually has smaller galaxies mixed within it, probably from galactic collisions in ancient history. Mapping the dynamics of such interstellar streams is expected to provide crucial clues for understanding the evolution of the Milky Way and similar galaxies. It could also provide insight on dark matter. This project also enables research in both astroinformatics and computer science. Astroinformatics is a rising field at the interface between Computer Science and Astronomy with new discoveries made possible by the abundance in galactic data created by the SDSS. As of January 2010, MilkyWay@Home has 44,900 users and 1,590 teams in 170 countries, with an average computing power of 1,382 TeraFlops. This ranks MilkyWay@Home second amongst the Top 500 list of supercomputers. Project owners + coordinators: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's departments of Computer Science and Physics/Astronomy Travis Desell, Graduate Research Assistant in Computer Science Dave Przybylo, Undergraduate Research Assistant in Computer Science Nathan Cole, Graduate Research Assistant in Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy Malik Magdon-Ismail, Associate Professor of Computer Science Heidi Newberg, Associate Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy Boleslaw Szymanski, Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Carlos Varela, Associate Professor of Computer Science To learn more, visit: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu To participate: • download and run BOINC, then select Attach to Project and when prompted, enter http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ • to optimize your computer for contributing to MilkyWay@Home, you will need to have BOINC running in the background while leaving your computer on for at least 24 hours To stay up-to-date on this project: • join milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_index.php

Hawaii Mars Analogue

spacegirlariel — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:59:27 +0000

AMASE

Be an astronaut on a mission to Mars for four months! A research program is seeking participants for a simulated Mars mission, taking place in 2013 in Hawaii. The Hawaii Mars Analogue Mission and Food Study is designed to simulate the living, eating and working experience of astronauts on a real planetary mission. Six prime and two alternate crew members will be selected to participate in: • a four day workshop at Cornell University (summer 2012) • a two week training mission (late 2012) • a four month mission simulation (early 2013) The training and simulated missions will involve living and working together in a small isolated Mars analogue habitat in a Mars-like environment, having only delayed electronic communication with the outside world. Participants will wear simulated spacesuits whenever leaving the habitat, respect water restrictions and consume "instant" and shelf-stable foods. Project owners + coordinators: Kim Binsted To learn more and participate by February 29, 2012, visit: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/hi-seas/#application To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/HI_SEAS • connect with facebook.com/Hawaii-Space-Exploration-Analog-Simulation

Galaxy Zoo

spacegirlariel — Sat, 07 May 2011 00:51:55 +0000

NASA, ESA, STScI/AURA

To understand different types of galaxies and how galaxies form, Galaxy Zoo: Hubble needs your help classifying images of hundreds of thousands of galaxies taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. If you're quick, you may even be the first person in history to see each of the galaxies you're asked to classify. Your job is very simple! All you need to do is look out for the features that mark out spiral and elliptical galaxies. There’s a tutorial showing how to classify galaxies according to shape (elliptical, spiral or irregular) and rotation (clockwise or anti-clockwise). Those involved are directly contributing to scientific research, while getting an opportunity to view the beautiful and varied galaxies that inhabit our universe. Why does Galaxy Zoo need people to do this, rather than just using a computer? The simple answer is that the human brain is much better at recognizing patterns than a computer. Galaxies are complicated objects that vary in appearance enormously, and yet in some ways they can be very similar. More than 250,000 people have taken part in Galaxy Zoo so far, producing a wealth of valuable data and sending telescopes on Earth and in space chasing after their discoveries. This latest incarnation of Galaxy Zoo uses data from the Hubble Space Telescope to go deeper than ever before. Read ‘The Story So Far’ to find out what has been achieved to date with Galaxy Zoo 1 and Galaxy Zoo 2. Project owners + coordinators: Galaxy Zoo Team, team@galaxyzoo.org To learn more and participate, visit: http://galaxyzoo.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow @galaxyzoo • read galaxyzooblog.org • join galaxyzooforum.org • connect with facebook.com/galaxy-zoo-hubble-edition Galaxy Zoo users discover an entirely new set of galaxies and a strange outer space phenomenon. Read about it.

The strange phenomenon, known as Hanny's Voorwerp, named after the Galaxy Zoo user who discovered it. Credit: NASA, ESA, W.Keel (Univ. Alabama), et al., Galaxy Zoo Team

NASA World Wind

spacegirlariel — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:21:55 +0000

NASA

An open source 3D interactive world viewer created by NASA's Learning Technologies project, released in mid-2004. It is now developed by NASA staff and open source community developers. World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there. World Wind provides geospatial visualization technology via extensible and modular components that can be incorporated into any application. World Wind spurs innovation by involving the world community in advancing this cross-platform Java-based technology. Project owners + coordinators: Patrick Hogan, project manager Randy Kim Chris Maxwell Tom Gaskins Bruce Lam To learn more and participate, visit: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov To stay up-to-date on this project: • join forum.worldwindcentral.com • explore worldwindcentral.com/wiki Company uses NASA World Wind to aid earthquake rescue operations in Chile and in Haiti. Read about it.

TubeSat Kit

spacegirlariel — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:44:36 +0000

Build and launch your own satellite into space! One of the primary missions at Interorbital is to provide satellite hardware and launch support for the experimental and commercial satellite community. Planet Earth has entered the age of the Personal Satellite with the introduction of Interorbital's TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit. The new IOS TubeSat PS Kit is the low-cost alternative to the CubeSat. And, best of all, the price of the TubeSat kit actually includes the price of a launch into Low-Earth-Orbit on an IOS NEPTUNE 7 launch vehicle. Since the TubeSats are placed into self-decaying orbits 310 kilometers (192 miles) above the Earth's surface, they do not contribute to the long-term build-up of orbital debris. After operating for a few months (the exact length of time on orbit is dependent on solar activity), they will safely re-enter the atmosphere and burn-up. TubeSats are designed to be orbit-friendly. Launches are expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2013 or the first quarter of 2014. Total Price of the TubeSat Kit including a Launch to Orbit is $8,000 USD. Each TubeSat kit includes the satellite's structural components, safety hardware, solar panels, batteries, power management hardware and software, transceiver, antennas, microcomputer, and the required programming tools. With these components alone, the builder can construct a satellite that puts out enough power to be picked up on the ground by a hand-held amateur radio receiver. Simple applications include broadcasting a repeating message from orbit or programming the satellite to function as a private orbital amateur radio relay station. These are just two examples. The TubeSat also allows the builder to add his or her own experiment or function to the basic TubeSat Kit. Examples of add-on experiments or applications include the following: Earth-from-space video imaging, Earth magnetic field measurement, satellite orientation detection (horizon sensor, gyros, accelerometers, etc.), orbital environment measurements (temperature, pressure, radiation, etc.), on-orbit hardware and software component testing (microprocessors, etc.), tracking migratory animals from orbit, testing satellite stabilization methods, biological experiments, on-orbit advertising, private e-mail, space art, space burials. If specified, Interorbital can supply an empty external shell with component rack at a lower cost. This allows advanced TubeSat developers to replace the standard kit components with their own hardware. Project owners + coordinators: Randa Milliron To learn more and order a kit, visit: http://interorbital.com Interorbital Systems’ NEPTUNE rocket series' main engine roared to life in its first hot-firing test.

Citizen Sky

spacegirlariel — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:33:07 +0000

[caption id="attachment_1202" align="alignnone" width="446"] Epsilon Aurigae artwork by Brian Thieme[/caption] Epsilon Aurigae is a supergiant star located 2,000 light years from Earth that mysteriously gets eclipsed every 27.1 years by an equally large unknown dark object. The event has baffled scientists since 1821, but through the Citizen Sky project, you'll make observations and analyses that could decipher this scientific puzzle! The next eclipse of Epsilon Aurigae began in August 2009 and will continue into 2011. The Citizen Sky project provides you with a finder chart and tutorials so you can collect and contribute scientific data to help solve the mystery. Epsilon Aurigae is a variable star—this means it changes in brightness over time. Collecting data on these changes can help us understand the star. No equipment or prior experience is required; the star is so bright in fall, winter and spring that it can be observed by anyone with a good pair of eyes, even in the most light-polluted cities. Project owners + coordinators: Citizen Sky team, (email form) To learn more and participate, visit: http://citizensky.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • subscribe to citizensky.org/category/newsletter/citizen-sky-newsletter • read citizensky.org/blog • join citizensky.org/forum

Moon Zoo

spacegirlariel — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:45:12 +0000

[caption id="attachment_1176" align="alignnone" width="446"] image via Lunar and Planetary Institute and G. Bacon (STScI)[/caption] A citizen science project around classifying high resolution images of craters and various parts of the lunar surface taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) via the Planetary Data System (PDS). From billion-year-old volcanic eruptions and curving lava channels to recent asteroid impacts, the images you classify will help advance lunar science – providing new insights into the geological history of the Moon. Your help is also needed in identifying which parts of the Moon are covered with boulders so as to create lunar landing hazard maps for future spacecraft and human exploration missions. Of course, in exploring the lunar surface, who knows what else you might find – the hope is that Moon Zoo will lead to the discovery of many unusual features. Craters on the lunar surface stay almost until eternity due to the lack of weather-based erosion, thus the number of craters on a surface area tells how old it is. This technique is used all over the Solar System, but the Moon is particularly important because of a ground truth — samples brought back by the Apollo missions — which allow for calibrating any estimates. You can see examples of these types of things on the tutorial page. Project owners + coordinators: Moon Zoo team, team@moonzoo.org To learn more and participate, visit: http://moonzoo.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow @moonzoo • read blogs.zooniverse.org/moonzoo • join forum.moonzoo.org

Planet Hunters

spacegirlariel — Sun, 08 May 2011 06:22:30 +0000

Help discover new exoplanets (aka extrasolar planets/planets orbiting other stars) by exploring space telescope data from NASA's Kepler mission. Planet Hunters is an online experiment that taps into the power of human pattern recognition. The data consists of brightness measurements, or "light curves", taken every thirty minutes for more than 150,000 stars in the Cygnus constellation. The Kepler team has been developing computer algorithms to analyze light curve data because it is not possible for them to visually inspect every light curve. In a sense, the Planet Hunters team is pitting human versus machine, betting that there will be planets which can only be found via the remarkable human ability for pattern recognition. You will be looking at changes in star brightness at a level that has never before been seen. As a participant, you'll search for possible transit events - a brief dip in brightness that occurs when a planet passes in front of the star - with the goal of discovering an exoplanet (hence the name "Planet Hunters"). Participants are considered partners with the Planet Hunters science team, who will obtain follow up observations at the telescope based on analyzing participants' assessments. What happens if you are the first person to discover a new exoplanet? If the Planet Hunters science team is able to confirm it's real (by checking the Kepler team's existing exoplanet list and obtaining spectroscopic data using the Keck telescope in Hawaii), you'll be invited to be a co-author on a discovery paper submitted for publication. Project owners + coordinators: The Planet Hunters team, team@planethunters.org To learn more and participate, visit: http://planethunters.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow @planethunters • read blogs.zooniverse.org/planethunters • connect with facebook.com/pages/PlanetHunters/168325563205996 Planet Hunters volunteers discover a second confirmed planet! The planet is named PH2 b and is a Jupiter-size planet in the habitable zone of a star like the Sun. Read more.

Artistic rendition of a sunset view from the perspective of an imagined Earth-like moon orbiting the giant planet, PH2 b. Image Credit: H. Giguere, M. Giguere/Yale University

Constellation

spacegirlariel — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:11:33 +0000

NASA

A community that provides distributed computing power to aerospace research projects that might not otherwise have access to supercomputers due to financial, administrative or bureaucratic reasons. By volunteering a percentage of your computer’s unused operating power, your computer will focus on a variety of tasks from modeling the Moon's surface to simulating various spacecraft, thus expediting fundamental and applicable research. The combined power of all volunteering users will help to solve important scientific tasks for both students and professionals in fields from astronomy to aerospace engineering. The bottom line is to benefit from the generosity of the volunteers and to benefit from the accumulation of different projects, like sharing programming knowledge in distributed computing and influencing the others' simulation by its own solutions. The Constellation platform uses BOINC (Berkeley Open Interface for Network Computing) and is an open space for anyone who is an air and space enthusiast that wants to donate idle computing time or even skill for a sub-project on platform. Get in touch with the Constellation project coordinators if you need computing power for your own simulation. Project owners + coordinators: The Constellation Team To learn more, visit: http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation To participate: • download and run BOINC, then select Attach to Project and when prompted, enter http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/ To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/ardnnews • join aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/forum_index.php • connect with facebook.com/pages/AerospaceResearchnet Watch the latest presentation from the Constellation team at the Chaos Computer Club's 28c3 event:

Spacelog

spacegirlariel — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:10:10 +0000

Kim Dismukes, NASA

A volunteer project to bring to life early manned space flight in a searchable, linkable format. In fifty years since mankind began to explore in person the universe outside our home planet, there have been many memorable moments, of beauty, of bravery, and occasionally of tragedy. For those who did not live through them it is sometimes difficult to appreciate the excitement of these early flights. Spacelog aims to bring those missions back to life: a website for exploring manned space missions through transcripts of conversations from during the flights between those in space and those back on the ground, and from photography taken at the time. To date there have been over two hundred human spaceflight missions. Only a small number of these are currently available on Spacelog, although we'd be delighted for assistance in getting more up and alive. For NASA missions, the transcripts Spacelog works from were prepared in the 60s and 70s; from there, they've been scanned, converted to text, and then cleaned up by Spacelog volunteers. There are a whole bundle of different tasks that people can help out on, from the very small (such as noticing and pointing out a problem with a transcription of a particular mission) up to the fairly large (transcribing an entire mission). Along the way there are jobs involving writing new material (biographies, descriptions of key moments and phases, and so on), selecting images for use in missions (and possibly cropping or preparing them in Photoshop), and if you're a programmer you can get hold of the source code behind the site, and help develop Spacelog further. In general, the first step in getting involved is simply to tell Spacelog you're around and interested. Drop an email to the spacelog@googlegroups.com mailing list, and ask any questions you need to get started. If you use IRC, the team tends to hang out on #spacelog, which can be more useful if you need to ask a number of related questions. Project owners + coordinators: The Spacelog Team To learn more and participate, visit: http://spacelog.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/spacelog • join groups.google.com/group/spacelog • chat on irc://irc.freenode.net/#spacelog A collection of hi-res photos from the Gemini project, NASA's second human spaceflight program, have been released in an online archive by NASA and Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration.

Milky Way Project

spacegirlariel — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:23:48 +0000

A project where you can help create a better understanding of how the Milky Way evolves over time and potentially make new unexpected scientific discoveries. The Milky Way Project aims to sort and measure our galaxy and the characteristics of its cold, dusty material that is so important to creating stars. The project calls on people to find bubbles, star clusters and unusual characteristics in infrared images acquired from the Spitzer Space Telescope. These bubbles (or clouds) are part of the life cycle of stars - often containing several hundred to several thousand young stars. Some bubbles have already been found by a study that inspired this project. By finding more bubbles, you can help map star formation in the Milky Way. As well as bubbles, knots and stars clusters there are other objects hidden throughout these images such as young stars, supernova remnants and never-before-seen galaxies. If you see anything unusual in the images, make sure to mark it using the 'areas' tool. The hope is to map out these objects and then use your discoveries to make more observations. You might even discover something we didn't expect. Soon, the next update to the Milky Way Project will involve hunting for young stellar objects in similar data. Project owners + coordinators: The Milky Way Project Team To learn more and participate, visit: http://milkywayproject.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/milkywayproj • subscribe to blog.milkywayproject.org Citizen scientists discover more than 5,000 bubbles, creating a much-improved catalog to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Read about it.

SETILive

spacegirlariel — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:38:41 +0000

SETI Institute

Help search for life on another planet by analyzing potential alien signals coming from within our galaxy. SETILive is taking the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) directly to you by presenting radio frequency signals LIVE from the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA) while it's pointed at stars that have the best chances of being home to an alien civilization. Your participation can directly affect where the telescopes look - if enough people see a potential extraterrestrial (ET) signal in the same data, then within minutes, the ATA will be interrupted and sent back to take a second look. One of the hardest parts of hunting for signals from space is separating what might be an ET signal from the earth-based Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) sources. We think that human eyes, and our amazing brains, should be better than a computer at finding interesting signals in the noise. Project owners + coordinators: The SETILive Team To learn more and participate, visit: http://setilive.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/setilive • subscribe to blogs.zooniverse.org/seti • connect with facebook.com/pages/SETI-Live

Einstein@Home

spacegirlariel — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:22:18 +0000

NASA/CXC/SAO/F.D. Seward, W.H. Tucker, R.A. Fesen

An effort to discover new neutron stars (massive stars that have collapsed under their own weight) and hopefully directly detect one of Albert Einstein's predictions for the first time: gravitational waves. Directly detecting these ripples in the curvature of spacetime would open up a new window on the universe, and usher in a new era in astronomy. Einstein@Home uses your computer's idle time to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, the Arecibo radio telescope, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. More than 250,000 individuals have contributed so far and the aggregate computational power is on par with the largest supercomputers. Einstein@Home volunteers have already discovered more than a dozen new neutron stars and hope to find many more. The project is hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany). Project owners + coordinators: Bruce Allen, director To learn more, visit: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu To participate: • download and run BOINC, then select Attach to Project and when prompted, enter http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/einsteinathome • join einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_index.php Einstein@Home volunteers discover four gamma-ray pulsars in data from NASA's Fermi Space Telescope!

Mapper

spacegirlariel — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:02:04 +0000

Donnie Reid

Help NASA find life on Mars by exploring microbialites in the lakes of British Columbia. Microbialites are rocks that are influenced by microbes when they formed. Microbialites are rare on Earth today, but were the only forms of life on Earth for the first billion years of its history. Scientists think that by learning more about microbialites here on Earth, we'll have a better idea of where to search for life in outer space. By exploring and tagging the locations of these microbialites, you're helping part of the scientific search for signs of life on Mars and other planets. The work you do filters into the NASA Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) that investigates underwater environments to learn more about microbialites. By being a Mapper participant, you're joining forces with NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and universities from around the world to work together on the PLRP. In addition to classifying the images, you're encouraged to record notes to alert the PLRP team about interesting or odd things that may be transpiring in them. Once this iteration of the Mapper project is complete, a queryable, interactive map will be available online so that contributors and PLRP scientists can investigate the lakes by testing hypotheses about how microbialite formation is affected by a variety of factors (depth, light, location, etc.). Project owners + coordinators: Darlene Lim, research scientist Nick Wilkinson, developer To learn more and participate, visit: http://getmapper.com To stay up-to-date on this project: • connect with facebook.com/getmapper

Odysseus Contest

spacegirlariel — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:34:52 +0000

NASA (1959)

A European contest to create an innovative and imaginative project exploring our solar system, a space mission, space-based life support systems or the search for extraterrestrial life. The contest is open to all European students between the ages of 14-18. The contest invites participants to form teams consisting of 2-5 students and a teacher/mentor. Participants are welcome to decide the form/design of the entry they want to develop (experiment, video, prototype, presentation etc.). The aim is to develop a project on space exploration using knowledge, creativity and critical thinking. Projects will be judged on scientific value, practical implementation and creativity/originality. The winning teams will win a free trip to Space Expo and the European Space Agency, in the Netherlands, for a special event in April 2013, where they will have the chance to visit the space exhibition and to meet with astronauts, scientists and other participants in the contest. At the end of the competition, all entries will be made publicly accessible via the Odysseus website. Project owners + coordinators Elena Tavlaki, project coordinator To learn more and participate by February 15, 2013, visit: http://odysseus-contest.eu To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/OdysseusContest

Citizens In Space

spacegirlariel — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:43:06 +0000

COMPASS-1 CubeSat

Ever dreamed of being able to launch something into space? Through Citizens In Space, you could be one step closer to making that dream a reality. The project has an open call for experiments that could be launched on board a CubeSat, a type of small satellite. There's room for approximately 100 of these small experiments which are expected to launch by 2014 via XCOR's Lynx rocketplane. From conducting astrobiology experiments to searching for new space phenomena, the sky (or in this case, the edge of space), is the limit! Citizens In Space will also be awarding a $10,000 prize for an experiment that qualifies for their High Altitude Astrobiology Challenge and a $5,000 prize for the best non-astrobiology-related experiment. All experiments must be licensed as open source hardware - the use of readily-available "closed-source" components is allowed, but you must provide enough documentation for others to reproduce the hardware. Experiments will be exposed to microgravity and cosmic radiation, so plan accordingly. If you're interested in submitting an experiment to Citizens In Space, send a notice of intent to experiments@rocketacademy.org as soon as possible. Citizens in Space is a project of the United States Rocket Academy. Project owners + coordinators: Edward Wright, project manager To learn more and participate, visit: http://citizensinspace.org/call-for-experiments/

PolAres

spacegirlariel — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:28:32 +0000

(c) OEWF (Katja Zanella-Kux)

A Mars analog research program led by the Austrian Space Forum (OEWF), a volunteer space organization based in Austria. The PolAres program aims to develop strategies for human-robotic interactions in preparation for a future human-robotic Mars surface expedition. The Austrian Space Forum collaborates with international partners, space professionals, space enthusiasts and interdisciplinary volunteers to help accomplish the goals of the PolAres program. The PolAres program's vision is to provide a profound impact on the efforts to prepare for the exploration of the Solar System, by both helping to enable a Human Mars Mission through stimulating public awareness and testing out concepts and technologies that might help making such a mission safer and more effective. The PolAres program's approach has been mapped out into four steps: "During four consecutive years, the interaction between analogue astronauts and an advanced robotic component will be investigated. The programme shall follow a staggered approach: First, a scouting phase shall identify possible Mars analogue sites in Europe and the neighbouring Arctic. In a second step, a stratospheric/mesospheric balloon shall be constructed and launched both as a training project and as a precursor for the Rover phase (phase 3). In a synergetic approach, hardware components like sensors and navigation elements shall be tested before being implemented on the Rover, which shall form the core of phase 3. In a fourth step (phase 4) the man-machine interface between the rover and the analogue astronaut shall be tested, including interactivity requirements development and investigation." Project owners + coordinators: OEWF PolAres Spacesuit Laboratory, Innsbruck, Austria To learn more, visit: http://www.oewf.org/cms/polares.phtml To participate, email: info@oewf.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/oewf • connect with facebook.com/spaceforum • read blog.oewf.org • watch youtube.com/oewf

Planet Four

spacegirlariel — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:54:20 +0000

ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

Unearth secrets about Mars' climate by scouring the Martian surface for distinct features and blotches. Detecting these features helps build a knowledge-base around the wind's direction and speed on Mars. Knowing more about the wind on Mars and how it changes and evolves over time actively helps build a better understanding of Mars' climate. Collectively, your markings of these features produce an extremely reliable map and will create the first large scale measurement of wind on the planet! All of the images on Planet Four are taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft designed to survey the Martian surface from orbit. Planet Four specifically focuses on the southern polar region of Mars, an area that we know little about, so most of the images show pieces of the planet that have never been seen by human eyes before! Project owners + coordinators: The Zooniverse Team To learn more and participate visit: http://planetfour.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/planet_four • read blog.planetfour.org • connect with facebook.com/pages/Planet-Four

Exploration Design Challenge

spacegirlariel — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:40:24 +0000

mockup of the Orion spacecraft

NASA is asking high school students in the U.S. to research and help design new ways to protect astronauts from space radiation. As NASA begins to map out ways for humans to explore asteroids and Mars, they need to develop ways to protect astronauts from radiation during these distant travels. The Orion spacecraft is NASA's next generation of crew modules to help put humans into space, eventually carrying them beyond the Earth's orbit and on to Mars. The competition challenges students to follow an engineering design process and work in teams to design radiation shielding to protect a sensor on the Orion crew module from space radiation. Once designs have been completed, teams may compete for the chance to build their design and have it flown on the Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). The flight test scheduled for 2014 will take Orion farther into space than any manned spacecraft has been since the Apollo missions, giving scientists and engineers a chance to study the effects of radiation on humans beyond low Earth orbit. Teams' designs and prototypes will be judged by NASA and Lockheed Martin researchers, educators and graduate engineering students. Five teams will be selected for the test phase of the challenge. Project owners + coordinators: NASA Exploration Design Challenge Team To learn more and participate by January 14, 2014, visit: http://nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/spacelife/explorationdesign

Robonaut Challenge

basilleaf — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:46:49 +0000

NASA

A challenge to hack one of NASA's robots in space. The NASA Robonaut Challenge tasks developers with tinkering Robonaut 2, NASA's robot that lives on the International Space Station (ISS). In this NASA Tournament Lab challenge, robotics and computer vision enthusiasts will be helping train Robonaut 2. Robonaut 2 needs to learn how to interact with the types of input devices the astronauts use on the ISS. NASA has built several taskboards for Robonaut to play with. The taskboards have a number of LEDs that turn on when the power switch is flipped or the buttons are pushed. In these challenges, competitors will write algorithms in C++ to control Robonaut 2 and teach it how to interact with the taskboard. This is the first of 2 challenges for Robonaut 2 hackers: the second contest will ask competitors to use the “seeing” algorithm produced in the first challenge in order to write an algorithm that actually controls the robot’s motion. There is $10,000 USD in total prize money. Registration for the first "vision" challenge closes April 22nd. Project owners + coordinators: Topcoder Team To learn more and participate by April 22, 2013, visit: http://www.topcoder.com/iss/robonaut/

Night Rover Challenge

spacegirlariel — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:35:18 +0000

Asimov, Part-Time Scientists' entry for the Google Lunar X PRIZE

A competition to create innovative energy storage for lunar rovers to use during their 14-day-long lunar night. Energy storage solutions will be tested in temperatures as low as -177 Celsius and as high as 25 Celsius. Phase 2 of the competition will also expose energy storage solutions to low pressures in addition to low temperatures. The Night Rover Challenge is part of NASA's Centennial Challenges series that aims to create advanced technologies for space exploration. Competition trials for the Night Rover Challenge will be conducted at NASA's Glenn Research Center (GRC) Plumbrook Station located in Sandusky, Ohio. Prizes for winning solutions range from $50,000 to $500,000. The competition is open to international participants, but is only able to award prizes to U.S. citizens. Please note that there is a $3000-$5000 USD registration fee associated with this competition. Project owners + coordinators: Joshua Neubert, Executive Director To learn more and participate by October 25, 2013, visit: http://nightrover.org/technical-competition To stay up-to-date on this project: • connect with http://facebook.com/pages/Night-Rover-Challenge/102870026543213

LHC@home

spacegirlariel — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:02:03 +0000

ATLAS experiment, LHC, CERN

By donating your computer's idle time, you can help particle physicists study the nature of dark matter, antimatter and mass in our universe. LHC@home is a distributed computing project that helps scientists compare theories with experiments in the search for new fundamental particles. By contributing spare processing capacity on your computer, people are able to run simulations of beam dynamics and particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider's giant detectors. CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest energy particle accelerator. Particle accelerators help study the nature of the universe by creating conditions in the accelerator here on Earth that might otherwise only take place in a supernova, black hole, or the start of the Big Bang. LHC@home offers two distinct projects to contribute to. The Sixtrack project aims to study the LHC machine to understand the fundamental laws of the universe. The Test4Theory project helps support research around the Higgs boson by using a virtual atom smasher. Project owners + coordinators: Eric McIntosh, CERN SixTrack expert To learn more, visit: http://lhcathome.web.cern.ch To participate: • download and run BOINC, then select Attach to Project and when prompted, enter http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/ OR http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/

Yuri's Night

spacegirlariel — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 23:09:47 +0000

Whether in someone's living room, a nightclub or a world-class science museum, all Yuri's Night events have one thing in common - people who are excited about space exploration and who want to join together to celebrate it. Everyone around the world is encouraged to create their own Yuri's Night event! "Let's go!" These were the words spoken by Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin as he embarked on the historic first manned space flight on 12 April 1961. Twenty years later on 12 April 1981, the US launched the first space shuttle flight. That's something worth celebrating. Every year on April 12th Yuri's Night is celebrated all around the world - in 2011 there were 567 events held in 75 countries worldwide. The range of events is as diverse as the people who hold them - even the residents of Antarctica and the International Space Station have been known to join in the fun! Project owners + coordinators: Tim Bailey, assistant director Digital Ops Team To find a Yuri's Night in your neighborhood, visit: http://yurisnight.net To register your own event, visit: http://yurisnight.net/3-steps/ To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow @yurisnight • connect with facebook.com/yurisnight Browse through the latest photos from Yuri's Night:

NASA Great Moonbuggy Race

spacegirlariel — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:52:21 +0000

NASA/MSFC The annual Great Moonbuggy Race will be held April 17-18, 2015 in Huntsville, Alabama, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Participating students will design a vehicle that addresses a series of engineering problems that are similar to problems faced by the original Moonbuggy team. Each Moonbuggy will be human powered and carry two students, one female and one male, over a half-mile simulated lunar terrain course including "craters", rocks, "lava" ridges, inclines and "lunar" soil. Moonbuggy entries are expected to be of "proof-of-concept" and engineering test model nature, rather than final production models. Each student team of six members is responsible for building their own buggy, and the course drivers, who are chosen from each team, must also be builders of the vehicle. Project owners + coordinators: Diedra Williams To learn more, visit: http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov/index.html To participate, register by February 6, 2015 (January 9, 2015 if outside the U.S.) at: http://www.nasa.gov/roverchallenge/registration/index.html To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/moonbuggyrace

University Rover Challenge

spacegirlariel — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

An annual competition for college students around the world to design and build the next generation of Mars rovers that will one day work alongside astronauts on the Red Planet. Former students and community members alike are encouraged to reach out to their alma matters and local universities to help form teams. The Mars Society's University Rover Challenge (URC) is held at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah. Teams and their rovers will compete in five tasks: equipment servicing, terrain traversing, sample return, presentation, and astronaut assistance that will require rovers to search for a distressed astronaut who is lost and disabled in the field. Project owners + coordinators: Kevin Sloan To learn more and participate in this annual competition, visit: http://urc.marssociety.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • connect with facebook.com/pages/University-Rover-Challenge

Spirit of Innovation Awards

spacegirlariel — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 09:09:24 +0000

Here’s your chance to develop products that can help propel the aerospace industry forward in the exploration and knowledge of space. The Spirit of Innovation Awards: Aerospace Exploration category challenges teams of 2-5 domestic or international high school students to solve real-world problems by creating an innovative product for use in aerospace exploration. The Aerospace Exploration category encompasses any products with reasonable commercial opportunity in the aerospace industry – vehicles, spacesuits, planetary exploration, satellites, space medicine, Earth observation and more. Think biomedical … missions to the moon and Mars … other aerospace innovations. The industry is ripe for new ideas. Competing students will be guided through a phased pathway incorporating science, technology, design, marketing and business in an interdisciplinary, project-based product development experience. Teams will be provided the opportunity to meet with and learn from professional scientists and entrepreneurs who will advise them on how to commercialize their products for general market use. Awards are provided to the schools, teachers, and students for the top product designs. If selected as a finalist, you will be invited to attend the Innovation Summit at NASA and present your ideas to world level venture capitalists, angel investors, business leaders, and scientists. Selected teams will receive funding to continue the development of their products and may go on to participate in The Portal where they may choose to patent their product and have an opportunity to enter the commercial marketplace. By October 24, 2013:

1. Register individually and create or join a team. 2. Use online resources to learn about aerospace products and exploration. Solicit expert feedback from mentors in the competition's online community on your innovation ideas to improve your chances of success. 3. Submit a team abstract about your innovative product or idea.

Project owners + coordinators: Jennifer Fotherby, Executive Director To learn more and participate by October 24, 2013, visit: http://conradawards.org/pages/how-soia-works To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/conradawards • connect with facebook.com/SpiritofInnovation • watch youtube.com/ConradAwards

Space Apps Challenge

spacegirlariel — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 23:35:45 +0000

A two-day hackathon-style event that invites people from around the world to create and collaborate on projects relevant to space exploration. The International Space Apps Challenge is a "technology development marathon", where software developers, engineers, designers and technologists from around the world can mashup data, code and design to create clever solutions, explorations and experiments. Attendees can submit their own hack ideas or work on existing ones. Some hack ideas from 2012 included redesigning the Voyager Golden Record, creating better access to NASA data, mapping Earth's Aurora, building suborbital payloads, and developing methods and equipment for baking in space. The International Space Apps Challenge will take place in several locations around the world (and maybe even in space!) on April 11-12, 2015. Project owners + coordinators: Space Apps team To learn more and participate visit: http://spaceappschallenge.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/spaceapps • connect with facebook.com/spaceappschallenge Check out the 100+ amazing space apps that were created around the world in 2012!

Space Warps

spacegirlariel — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 11:00:52 +0000

Andrew Fruchter (STScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA

Go hunting for rare warps in space-time, also known as gravitational lenses! Massive galaxies have the ability to create gravitational lenses by warping space-time around themselves; bending light rays so that we can see other galactic objects that lie behind them. In a way, gravitational lenses act as a natural telescope - allowing people to see magnified, yet distorted, distant galaxies that otherwise would be difficult to see with conventional telescopes. Observing these distant galaxies through a gravitational lens can help expand knowledge about how they form stars and grow over time. Additionally, by studying gravitational lenses, people can map out where dark matter exists in the universe and how clumpy/dense it is near the center of galaxies. All of this equates to providing crucial information about how galaxies evolve. To learn more and participate, visit: http://spacewarps.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/spacewarps • connect with facebook.com/spacewarps • join talk.spacewarps.org/#/boards

Galaxy Zoo Radio

spacegirlariel — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 01:03:07 +0000

Credit: ESO/WFI; MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al.; NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al.

Help astronomers discover supermassive black holes. In order to better understand how supermassive black holes form and evolve over time, astronomers need to observe many of them at different stages of their lifecycles. To do this, they need your help to find them! With a large enough sample (from your classifications), black holes can be found at different stages and astronomers can build a better picture of their origins. Black holes are found at the center of most, if not all, galaxies. These supermassive black holes drag in nearby material, growing to billions of times the mass of our Sun and occasionally producing spectacular jets of material traveling nearly as fast as the speed of light. The jets of material spewed out by these supermassive black holes can't be detected in visible light, but can be observed in the radio wavelengths. There is a great deal of valuable information that can be obtained from the radio images of these jets. There's also a need to understand the host galaxy, which can be critical to understanding how big and how luminous the black hole actually is. Project owners + coordinators: Ivy Wong, project scientist (@owning_ivy) Robert Simpson, developer (@orbitingfrog) To learn more and participate, visit: http://radio.galaxyzoo.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/radiogalaxyzoo • join radiotalk.galaxyzoo.org

Star Date: M83

basilleaf — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 01:27:19 +0000

Help identify the ages of star clusters in galaxy M83. Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope need help determining the age and type of star clusters in M83, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, one of the closest galaxies to our own. Most of the billions of stars that reside in galaxies start their lives grouped together into clusters. In this activity, you will pair your discerning eye with Hubble’s detailed images to identify the ages of M83’s many star clusters. This will help astronomers learn more about how star clusters are born, evolve and eventually fall apart in spiral galaxies. Project owners + coordinators: Bill Blair, lead astronomer Carol Christian, project scientist To learn more and participate, visit: http://projectstardate.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/the_zooniverse

Disk Detective

spacegirlariel — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:04:00 +0000

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Comb the Milky Way looking for stars that could harbor planet-forming disks. Planets form and grow in rotating disks of gas, dust, and chunks of rock around young stars. These disks suggest that these stars are in the early stages of forming planetary systems. Learning more about these stars can show how our Solar System formed. Finding these disks, birthplaces and homes of planets, has been a major quest of astronomers for the last three decades. NASA’s WISE mission probably made images of thousands of disks. Alas, these disks are buried among images of millions of other kinds of astronomical objects like galaxies and nebulae, and mixed in with images that contain artifacts created by the telescope itself. In Disk Detective, you will help find these disks that may harbor planets. The Disk Detective team will then try to directly image the planets around the closest and brightest disks you find! These images will be attempted using the Hubble Space Telescope. Disk Detective is the first NASA led and funded Zooniverse project. It is also the first NASA led and funded crowdsourcing project whose main goal is to produce publishable scientific results. Project owners + coordinators: Marc Kuchner, principal investigator John Debes, astronomer To learn more and participate, visit: http://diskdetective.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/disk_detective • connect with facebook.com/DiskDetect • read blog.diskdetective.org • join talk.diskdetective.org

European Rover Challenge

spacegirlariel — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 01:02:32 +0000

NASA/JPL

An international competition for university-level students/faculty to design, construct and operate a Mars rover. The competition challenges teams to create a Mars rover that can accomplish tasks in sample retrieval, "blind" terrain traversal, life support maintenance, and emergency repairs. Teams must design and build their own rover, but are allowed to use off-the-shelf components. A letter of intent to participate in the competition is typically due in March each year. Rovers are limited to costing no more than 15,000 EUR in parts, equipment and paid services. The competition is usually held each September in Podzamcze, Poland. The European Rover Challenge is is a modified version of the University Rover Challenge and is organized by the European Space Foundation and Planet PR Agency, and partners with the Mars Society Polska. Project owners + coordinators: Lukasz Wilczynski, project coordinator To learn more and participate in this annual competition, visit: http://roverchallenge.eu To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/rover_challenge • connect with facebook.com/europeanroverchallenge

Asteroid Data Hunter

spacegirlariel — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 05:40:30 +0000

ESA 2010 MPS NASA needs your help in developing algorithms and other resources that can better identify asteroids that have the potential to impact the Earth. Ground-based telescopes around the world are scanning the sky for asteroids, however, correctly identifying asteroids amidst other noise can be a challenge. There is so much data captured by modern telescopes, that scientists are unable to individually verify each potential asteroid detected. New ways of autonomously detecting asteroids are needed. This challenge calls for the development of algorithms and other resources that can be used by present-day and future telescopes that minimizes false positives while increasing detection sensitivity. The Asteroid Data Hunter project is part of the NASA Asteroid Grand Challenge, in partnership with Planetary Resources. Project owners + coordinators: Jason Crusan, NASA director To learn more and participate by November 21, 2014, visit: http://topcoder.com/asteroids/asteroiddatahunter To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/nasa_ntl The project has created a great video overview of the challenge:

theSkyNet

spacegirlariel — Fri, 16 May 2014 01:11:27 +0000

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

Use your spare computing power to process radio astronomy data. Data collected by one of several radio telescopes (Parkes, GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE) is sent to your computer as a small data packet ready for processing. theSkyNet consists of two main projects: SourceFinder, which is searching for the sources of cosmic radio waves, and POGS, which is generating a multi-wavelength galaxy atlas for the nearby universe. By having thousands of people donate their extra computing power, it is possible to simulate a single powerful machine capable of doing real and relevant scientific research. theSkyNet currently has over 20,000 members, with about 4,000 members donating their computing power at any given time. On average theSkyNet represents between 35 and 50 TFLOPS of processing power, the equivalent of a mid-level supercomputer. In the pipeline, theSkyNet aims to have participants help identify and catalogue radio wave sources in the sky. Project owners + coordinators: Pete Wheeler, theSkyNet developer Dave Thilker, theSkyNet POGS team Attila Popping, theSkyNet SourceFinder team To learn more, visit: http://theskynet.org To participate: • download and run BOINC, then select Attach to Project and when prompted, enter http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/ • download and run SourceFinder installer To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/_theskynet • connect with facebook.com/theskynet.org Dr. David Thilker (Johns Hopkins University) introduces what science theSkyNet POGS project is hoping to achieve. theSkyNet POGS video from ICRAR on Vimeo.

Cities at Night

spacegirlariel — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:29:39 +0000

ISS Expedition 30, NASA

Classify photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station to create a map of light pollution around the world. Light pollution is artificial light (such as street lamps) that results in masking the night sky, making it difficult to see the stars that would otherwise naturally appear to the naked eye. Light pollution is bad not only for blocking our ability to see the Milky Way, but it also can disrupt natural ecosystems. Around 1,200,000 images were taken aboard the International Space Station as of February 2014. However, the number of classified images is much smaller, and there is no archive of georeferenced images. The Cities at Night project needs volunteers to help sort and identify the location of pictures taken of the Earth at night. The resulting maps will help governments and local authorities to make the right decisions to reduce light pollution. Project owners + coordinators: Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel José Gómez Castaño Jaime Zamorano Sergio Pascual Jesús Gallego To learn more and participate, visit: http://citiesatnight.org To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/cities4tnight • read crowdcrafting.org/app/darkskies/blog

Sungrazer

spacegirlariel — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 02:05:45 +0000

Discover entirely new comets by searching through spacecraft data. Comets are small icy Solar System bodies that heat up when passing close to the sun, displaying a visible atmosphere and sometimes a tail. Only a small fraction of the comets in our Solar System have been discovered. The Sungrazer Project is a NASA-funded program where you can discover previously unknown comets in SOHO and STEREO satellite data. Anyone can join this project, all you need is an internet connection and some free time. To learn more and participate, visit: http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil To stay up-to-date on this project: • follow twitter.com/SungrazerComets