awesome-space
A curated list of awesome resources related to Outer Space
Jobs
- SpaceJobs.US - Free and
interactive listing of Space Industry positions across all disciplines
in the United States
- Space Careers -
Listings of jobs and job applications in the space industry
(worldwide)
- SpaceX -
Flickr account of SpaceX, with high resolution images and diagrams
released in the Public Domain
- Spacelog - Read the stories of
early space exploration from the original transcripts. Now open to the
public in a searchable, linkable format.
- Cities at Night - High
resolution night time city photos from the ISS. Help by classifying new
cities!
- Disk Detective - Comb the
Milky Way looking for stars that could harbor planet-forming disks.
- ISS EarthKAM - A NASA
education program that provides unique, high quality photographs of our
planet taken by middle school students.
- NASA World Wind -
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.
- NASA
ArtSpace - Open source material across a variety of new media
formats (still images, sounds, video, multimedia).
- Hubble
SOURCE - All of Hubble Space Telescope’s press release images are
available for downloading in various formats, including JPEG, PDF, and
full-resolution TIFF.
- Space
Shots - A gallery of photos, visualizations, and other pictures of
outer space, updated almost daily by the editors of popular
science.
Events
- Space Apps
Challenge - A two-day hackathon where teams of technologists,
scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, developers and
students across the globe collaborate and engage with publicly available
data to design innovative solutions for global challenges.
- [New Space 2015] (https://newspace.spacefrontier.org/) - A two-day
event bringing space startups, established companies, and government
agencies togeter with Silicon Valley’s investors and tech
innovators.
- International Astronautical
Congress - Global, multidisciplinary and covering all space sectors
and topics, IAC offers everyone the latest space information,
developments but above all contacts and potential partnerships.
- Night Sky
Network - 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 National Space
Society’s (NSS) annual International Space Development Conference®
(ISDC®) - This conference has attracted up to 1300 attendees from
over 20 countries, with ISDC® 2014 bringing together over 1000
attendees. ISDC® also features plenary talks, keynote speakers,
multi-disciplinary tracks, exhibit hall, design contests, book signing,
and more.
- American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics - List of worldwide space events.
- The International Conference for
Aerospace Experts, Academics, Military Personnel, and Industry
Leaders - The international IEEE Aerospace Conference, with AIAA and
PHM Society as technical cosponsors, is organized to promote
interdisciplinary understanding of aerospace systems, their underlying
science and technology, and their applications to government and
commercial endeavors.
Software
Reference
- arXiv.org - Open access to 1,028,481
e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative
Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
- NASA Technical Reports
Server - Providing Acess to NASA’s Technolo, Research, and
Science
Research
- Vision
Workbench - The VW is a general purpose image processing and
computer vision library.
- Flight
Analogs Project - 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).
- PolAres - The
PolAres program aims to develop strategies for human-robotic
interactions in preparation for a future human-robotic Mars surface
expedition.
- DASHlink - A virtual
laboratory for scientists and engineers to disseminate results and
collaborate on research problems in health management technologies for
aeronautics systems.
Policy
- Outer
Space Treaty - Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of
States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and
Other Celestial Bodies.
Rockets & Starships
- Atomic
Rockets - This site originally focused on rocketry equations, but
has grown to encompass other topics of interest to SF authors and game
designers.
- Icarus Interstellar
- An International organization dedicated to starship research and
development.
- av3-fc - Open Source
event driven flight computer for rockets. Created by the Portland State
Aerospace Society.
- Portland State Aerospace Society -
Portland State Aerospace Society is a student aerospace engineering
project at Portland State University, building ultra-low-cost, open
source rockets that feature some of the most sophisticated amateur
rocket avionics systems out there today.
- DIY
Rocket Science - Open Source Hardware is ushering in a new era of
personal & DIY space exploration. Starting your own space program
has never been easier. Only a few years ago you needed millions (or
billions) of dollars and a huge manufacturing facility. Not anymore.
Thanks to low cost software and manufacturing tools – you can build
satellites in your garage.
Higher Learning
- International Space University -
The International Space University is a private non-profit institution
that specializes in providing graduate-level training to the future
leaders of the emerging global space community at its Central Campus in
Strasbourg, France, and at locations around the world.
Educational
- INSPIRE Project - 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.
- My NASA Data -
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.
- Mars Student Imaging
Project - 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.
- Great
World Wide Star Count - Interested individuals have the opportunity
to get involved by making observations, and collecting and reporting
data.
- Crash Course
Astronomy - An easily accessible and informative introduction to
outer space.
- McGill
Institute for Aerospace Engineering - This training program will
prepare graduate-level engineering students to step directly into
industry from university research projects, thereby helping to maintain
and expand Canada’s strong presence in the global aerospace
industry.
- Aerospace
education in Quebec - When it comes to training engineers,
technicians and specialized workers, Québec has partnered with key
industry players to develop training programs adapted to industry
needs.
- List of
Aerospace Universities and Colleges in the U.S. - Students looking
to earn a degree in aerospace engineering must consider a few things
when choosing a school, such as aerospace programs available, research
and work-study opportunities and a university’s accreditation
status.
Collective Research
- Milky Way Project - 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.
- Planet Hunters - Help
discover new exoplanets (aka extrasolar planets/planets orbiting other
stars) by exploring space telescope data from NASA’s Kepler
mission.
- Galaxy Zoo - Hubble needs your
help classifying images of hundreds of thousands of galaxies taken by
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
- Galaxy Zoo Radio - Help
astronomers discover supermassive black holes.
- Moon Zoo - A citizen science
project around classifying high resolution images of craters and various
parts of the lunar surface
- Solar Stormwatch - 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.
- Stardust@Home
- Together, you and thousands of other Stardust@Home participants will
find the first pristine interstellar dust particles ever brought to
Earth.
- Global Telescope Network - 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.
- Planet Four - Unearth
secrets about Mars’ climate by scouring the Martian surface for distinct
features and blotches.
Distributed Computing
- theSkyNet - Use your spare
computing power to process radio astronomy data
- LHC@home - 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.
- Einstein@Home - 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
- Constellation - A
community that provides distributed computing power to aerospace
research projects that might not otherwise have access to
supercomputers
- Milky Way@Home -
Milkyway@Home uses the BOINC platform to harness volunteered computing
resources, creating a highly accurate three dimensional model of the
Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey.
- SETI@Home - SETI
(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose
goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth
Telescopes
- Telescop
Makers’ Workshop - Telescope Makers’ Workshop is an all-volunteer
group committed to helping people build their own telescopes
- Radio JOVE - 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
Misc & Cool Sites
Android apps
- ISS
Tracker - An android app showing the actual position of the
International Space Station (ISS), with also the astronauts inside it
and the news