Schlagwort: space
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Build a SatNOGS ground station with a Raspberry Pi 3B+ | HackSpace magazine #18
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe big feature on outer space in issue 18 of HackSpace magazine, available from today, shows you how to build your own satellite and launch it into orbit. No, we’re not kidding, this is an actual thing you can do. And to track the satellite you’ve launched, or another satellite you’re interested…
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Astro Pi Mission Zero: guarantee your code’s place in space
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday is the official launch day of Astro Pi Mission Zero, part of the 2018–2019 European Astro Pi Challenge, an ESA Education programme run in collaboration with us at Raspberry Pi. In this challenge, students and young people get the chance to have their computer programs run in space on the International…
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Tim Peake congratulates winning Mission Space Lab teams!
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis week, the ten winning Astro Pi Mission Space Lab teams got to take part in a video conference with ESA Astronaut Tim Peake! ESA Astro Pi students meet Tim Peake Uploaded by Raspberry Pi on 2018-06-26. A brief history of Astro Pi In 2014, Raspberry Pi Foundation partnered with the UK…
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Build your own Arthur satellite dish for tracking the ISS
Reading Time: 3 minutesConstruct a 3D paper model of the iconic Arthur satellite dish that notifies you whenever the International Space Station passes overhead! Project_Arthur Project_Arthur is a fun project allowing you to construct a 3d paper model of the Antenna 1 dish called Arthur from Goonhilly. The model will track the location of the…
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Astro Pi upgrades launch today!
Reading Time: 3 minutesBefore our beloved SpaceDave left the Raspberry Pi Foundation to join the ranks of the European Space Agency (ESA) — and no, we’re still not jealous *ahem* — he kindly drafted us one final blog post about the Astro Pi upgrades heading to the International Space Station today! So here it is.…
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3D Printed Gnome Goes to Space to Celebrate 100 Years of Polish Independence
Reading Time: 3 minutesA gnome (or krasnale), a symbol of the Polish city of Wroclaw, has been 3D printed and launched into the stratosphere to prove that the only limits are ones we set in our minds. That, and it’s in celebration of 100 years of Polish independence. If you’ve visited Wroclaw, you’ll most likely…
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Mission Space Lab flight status announced!
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn September of last year, we launched our 2017/2018 Astro Pi challenge with our partners at the European Space Agency (ESA). Students from ESA membership and associate countries had the chance to design science experiments and write code to be run on one of our two Raspberry Pis on the International Space…
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Astro Pi celebrates anniversary of ISS Columbus module
Reading Time: 3 minutesRight now, 400km above the Earth aboard the International Space Station, are two very special Raspberry Pi computers. They were launched into space on 6 December 2015 and are, most assuredly, the farthest-travelled Raspberry Pi computers in existence. Each year they run experiments that school students create in the European Astro Pi…
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Astro Pi Mission Zero: your code is in space
Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery school year, we run the European Astro Pi challenge to find the next generation of space scientists who will program two space-hardened Raspberry Pi units, called Astro Pis, living aboard the International Space Station. Italian ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli with the Astro Pi units. Image credit ESA. Astro Pi Mission Zero The…
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Going Interstellar – Laser Propulsion Could Take Humans to Mars in Just 3-Days
Reading Time: < 1 minute[mbYTPlayer url=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDuAiA6kX0″ opacity=“.5″ quality=“medium“ ratio=“auto“ isinline=“false“ showcontrols=“false“ realfullscreen=“true“ printurl=“true“ autoplay=“true“ mute=“true“ loop=“true“ addraster=“true“ stopmovieonblur=“false“ gaTrack=“false“] Philip Lubin, a researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Experimental Cosmology Group, has proposed an innovative propulsion method that could eventually transport humans to Mars in 3-days or less. It involves an unmanned…
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IXS Enterprise – NASA Unveils Incredible Design for Warp Drive Spacecraft!
Reading Time: < 1 minute[mbYTPlayer url=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4n1DwxW5Zk“ opacity=“.5″ quality=“medium“ ratio=“auto“ isinline=“false“ showcontrols=“false“ realfullscreen=“true“ printurl=“true“ autoplay=“true“ mute=“true“ loop=“true“ addraster=“true“ stopmovieonblur=“false“ gaTrack=“false“] According to Professor Geraint Lewis, from the University of Sydney, warp speed within the next 100-years is possible, enabling us to travel between galaxies a reality. This concept was part of Einstein’s theory of relativity, which…
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57-Year-Old Google Executive Jumps from Edge of Space!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSets New World Record! Alan Eustace, a 57-year-old senior vice president of Knowledge at Google, was lifted up to the edge of space earlier this morning by a balloon filled with 35,000 cubic feet of helium, from an abandoned runway at an airport in New Mexico. He fell faster than the…
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Fascinating Look at the Rotating Space Colony (Stanford torus) by NASA
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’ve seen the movie Elysium, then this rotating space colony concept probably is still fresh in your mind, but did you know that this concept was first brought up in the 1970s, by NASA? The Stanford torus is a proposed design for a space habitat capable of housing 10,000 to…
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Teenager Develops Quantum Space Propulsion System That Doesn’t Use Fuel
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAisha Mustafa, a young physicist from Egypt, has patented a next-generation quantum propulsion system that could send spacecraft to other solar systems without using a single drop of fuel. Mustafa says that this quantum effect can be harnessed with the dynamic Casimir effect, which utilizes a ‚moving mirror‘ cavity, where two…
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Mind-Blowing Photo Shows What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like from the ISS
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMost of us know that when viewed from Earth, a solar eclipse is a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun. Now here’s what the phenomenon looks like from the International Space Station.
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Virgin Galactic space ship blasts to record height of 71,000 Feet , New World Record
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVirgin Galactic set a new altitude record with the SpaceShipTwo by reaching an altitude of 71,000 feet, reports NBC. The flight prior to this test reached 69,000 feet. Everything was captured by cameras mounted on SpaceShipTwo, including one on a tail boom, which showed a different view of the rocket soaring…
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These Aren’t Blueberries, Just Breathtaking Pictures Captured by the Mars Rover Opportunity
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo, you aren’t looking at pictures of blueberries scattered over rocks, but real images of the Martian landscape photographed by the Mars Rover Opportunity. The discovery of these Martian clusters a decade ago provided some of the first evidence of liquid water on the red planet.
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Hypersonic Plane Set to Carry Passengers from NY to London in Under 1-Hour at Mach 6
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo, you’re a businessman in London with a crucial dinner in Tokyo just hours away. Even allowing for the nine-hour time difference, you won’t be needing to reset your morning alarm as you’ll be on the ground and knocking back the sake just two hours after take-off, thanks to hypersonic flight.…
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Scientists Discover Largest Cosmic Explosion Ever, Gamma Ray Bursts 3.7-Billion Light Years Into Space
Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists have observed the largest and brightest cosmic explosion ever. Astronomers have called the gamma ray burst ‚the monster‘ because it created five times more energy than the largest, captured 3.7 billion light years away. This single burst created five times more energy than the largest previously-known blast and if it…
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Doctor Says Humans Do Not Come from Earth, This is Why
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDr. Ellis Silver claims that supremely intelligent extraterrestrials put humans on Earth as recently as tens of thousands of years ago. Here are just some of the reasons: „[humans are] surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment [because they’re] harmed by sunlight, [have] a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously…
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the Utans
Reading Time: < 1 minutePlanet Mavas is under attack by mysterious Alien! you, as the saviour of the Utans, must command them and bring an end to the Alien invasion! Build basic melee or range trees, upgrade them, or SEED UPGRADE them! to make them even more powerful! click and execute
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Sky Hounds
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is a 2D, horizontal scrolling shoot’em up in the spirit of classic games such as R-type and Gradius. Play as a small, round mech, Dizzy, and his human co-pilot, Charley, in a search to find and rescue their friends after an alien invasion. The Game features five areas all with…