Constellation: News

Constellation: One year open space on earth!

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:03:25 GMT

Today, there are three things to celebrate I know of and definitively even more. Today is the 51st anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's history changing space flight and we honor this brave man with a crunching space race. Today is also the 31st anniversary of first orbital test flight, STS-1, of a Space Shuttle, the Columbia. We also pay tribute to this event. And of course, today is our very own first anniversary. For one year, we have space on earth where YOU all take part in! This is your day and we want to say a big thank you! Without your help, we wouldn't exist and it's a pleasure to have you. And we will do our very best to extend our efforts by improving the achieved and to start new things, like we will do next week with the local event of NASA's Space Apps Challenge here in Stuttgart. We hope to see you here and welcome our neighbours in Austria, Switzerland and France. Come on, it's not that far! ;) When you know another space event in history, post it to this thread. But today evening, go out to one of all those Yuri's Night event near you! Let's go!

Reminder: Yuri's Space Race starting this night!

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:23:53 GMT

Hello Everyone, this is a reminder. Tonight, the Yuri's Space Race will start. You can join the official team and/or join with your team. Russia Team had been so nice and also started a BOINCStats page for the race (and I couldn't figure out how to join with the official Yuri's Team. Can anyone help?) Let's have fun and let's celebrate humanities first reach for the stars!

Code SpaceApps in Stuttgart and get Prizes

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:38:30 GMT

Good news, Everyone! for the local event in Stuttgart for NASA's Space Apps Challenge, we can now announce our kind supporters * DGLR Stuttgart * DLR (German Aerospace Center) * Sterne und Weltraum (magazine) * Science-Shop.de * YurisNight.de * RadioactiveAtHome.org * github.com So, register today for SpaceApps Stuttgart, attend Stuttgart event, code for good, and win prizes! We now have a facebook site! http://www.facebook.com/InternationalSpaceAppsChallengeStuttgart nasa_spaceapps_stuttgart_2_v04 von aerospaceresearch.net auf Flickr

NASA's SpaceAppsChallenge in Stuttgart,Germany (21-22 April 12)

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:36:48 GMT

We're proud to announce to host a location for NASA's International Space Applications Challenge in Stuttgart Hackerspace shackspace. This code-a-thon will take place on 21-22 April 2012 and there will be various challenges to participate in. When you want to take part, register for one of the location listed here or directly for the Stuttgart location. Address: shackspace Ulmer Str. 255 Stuttgart, Germany We also have two challenges listed, that we will host on Constellation. * Brightest Night * Solar System Grand Tour and we even have some more ideas. You can also submit your own space app ideas. We hope to see you in Stuttgart, or at another location! We now have a facebook site! http://www.facebook.com/InternationalSpaceAppsChallengeStuttgart solarsystemgrandtour von aerospaceresearch.net auf Flickr About: The International Space Apps Challenge is a 2 day technology development event during which citizens from around the world will work together to solve current challenges relevant to both space exploration and social need. The International Space Apps Challenge will take place on all seven continents – and in space - on 21-22 April 2012.

Space Race - Yuri's Night

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:53:37 GMT

On 12 April, there are two things to celebrate. Firstly and humblest is the first year of distributed computing platform Constellation operation. With your voluntary help we achieved to process almost 50% of the first batch of workunits for the HyEnD hybrid rocket flight altitude optimization. And secondly it's the 51st anniversary of the first manned space flight achieved by Yuri Gagarin. To honor him there are Yuri's Night events worldwide and there is even one in your area for sure. But when you will attend one of those great parties, you could also attend this virtual Yuri's Night event and let your computer crunch for science and get some credits for our Yuri's Night team while you are partying hard. Combined, we want to achieve at least 169,000 credits and hopefully 315,000 credits. Both numbers correspond to the orbital parameters of the apogee at 315 km and of perigee at 169 km of his record breaking flight (In case we will generate more, I will just convert it to feet ;)) You can do that by following the instructions below "Join Constellation" to install the little software called BOINC and attach it to the project you like (hopefully Constellation is one of it ;)) and by joining our Yuri’s Night team on the chosen BOINC project for the duration of the Yuri's Night events. I myself will temporarily leave my team and join team Yuri and donate my idle CPU cycles to the benefit of all. Gentlemen, it's a space race. I will see you there, let's go! BOINC Team: Yuri's Night Team (Teamsite on Constellation, but each BOINC project should have this by now) BOINC Team Stats: boincstats.com Join Constellation This project uses BOINC. If you're already running BOINC, select Attach to Project. If not, download BOINC. When prompted, enter "http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/" If you're running a command-line or pre-5.0 version of BOINC, create an account first More about Yuri's Night: http://www.yurisnight.net http://www.yurisnight.de

Hackerspace Global Grid: Stuttgart Hackathon Weekends

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:35:52 GMT

The Stuttgart-based Hackerspace Global Grid Team meets on Saturday and Sunday afternoon for in-depth hack-sessions to work on the project. Everyone interested is free to join in to help or simply copy by and talk to us. Project Wiki Open tasks Frequently asked questions (FAQ) Public mailing list for discussions Event details: Everyone�s welcome! Date: Saturday and Sunday afternoon and late into the night Driving directions: U4/U9 station �Im Degen�, Ulmer Stra�e 255, Stuttgart Wangen (across from Kulturhaus Arena)

How to be involved? Overwhelming 28c3 response

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:01:30 GMT

Hi everyone, we received some emails after the 28c3, where you asked us how to be involved. There are quite some ways. A: You can participate in the distributed ground station network and help building it. There is a special email list constellation@lists.shackspace.de B: You can propose your own project and we would love to let it run on Constellation. So when you need massive computing power for your aerospace simulation or want to build your own sensor grid, just ask us via email (constellation@aerospaceresearch.net) or in our forums. C: Or you can just be generous and passivley donate your idle PC time to our project by joining it. This project uses BOINC. If you're already running BOINC, select "Attach to Project". If not, download BOINC. When prompted, enter http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/ . So there are some ways to do some good for the (science) community, you just have to pick one. We're really eager to receive more comments. And here are some FAQs http://shackspace.de/wiki/doku.php?id=project:hgg:faq What an overwheling response to our project presentation on 28c3. THANK you, but you have to thank yourself, because it's the community that makes this platform run! Questions? Just send us an email, follow us on twitter.com/ARDNnews, like our site on facebook.com/AerospaceResearch.net Andreas

28c3 video and media coverage

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:48:56 GMT

Hi everyone, I just came home from 28c3 and it was really fantastic. I will do a summery later, but for all of you, here is the video of our presentation. http://youtu.be/iuwkzNjaPwc and we received quite some media coverage.

Hacker aus Stuttgart Mit dem L�tkolben ins Weltall

Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship

Hacker wollen eigenes Satellitensystem starten

Hackers to launch satellites to block Internet censorship

Hackers Said to be Planning to Launch Own Satellites to Combat Censorship

Proposed Hacker Satellite System Would Fight Web Censorship

Hacking im Weltraum: Hacker basteln an eigenem Satellitennetzwerk

here are our FAQs http://shackspace.de/wiki/doku.php?id=project:hgg:faq These FAQs are very helpful to realize, which press exaggerates a LITTLE bit and which didn't. There are some false parts, that's aren't facts. For example, we don't build satellites. That's not part of our paper and video. And we're not doing internet, also I can't exclude that for future steps. But we're not there yet. When you have additional questions, just ask. So far only 4 journalists asked directly and 2 wrote an article. ;) Andreas

Meet & crunch on 28c3 or RKN beer table

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:15:15 GMT

Hi everyone, I will head to 28th chaos communication congress in Berlin in some hours and I heartly invite you to grab me there when you see me and ask me anything you'll like. I hope to get in contact with a lot of interesting people there. And of course I would like to have a hugh audiance present there on 28.12.11 and via video streaming. https://bitly.com/28c3hgg And there will be a Rechenkraft.net organized beer table (you can't call it regular's table ;)) at the Brauhaus am Alex, map here http://g.co/maps/5v43j next to the congress centre at 29.12.11-19:45hrs You will find us starting at the Sudhaus and then Yoyo will lay out some Rechnekraft.net flyers on our final table. More in here for the beer table http://www.rechenkraft.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12007

Merry Christmas & a happy new year 2012!

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:50:40 GMT

Hello Everyone, we want to wish everyone a merry christmas and a happy new year 2012! This year was fantastic, so we try our best to have a fantastic next year as well. THANK YOU! merrychristmasandpeaceonearth von aerospaceresearch.net auf Flickr

Your Science Slogan Idea on Poster

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:57:17 GMT

We wish you a merry St Nicholas' Day! I started to create new posters for constellation and it turned out to be fun that I want to share with all of you. The purpose ist to use a science bachground, create a slogan, sketch an easy symbol and to reveal the used science. When you have such an idea, you can source yourself directly underneath the heading tagline with your twitter address. tweet your slogan with #aerospaceslogan or post it in this thread. This is my first poster for St Nicholas' Day templatealgoposterframe von aerospaceresearch.net auf Flickr I will release all my poster ideas on a daily basis, and I will also release my template (vector Inkscape SVG) that you could use for your sketches. At the end, I would like to print all posters and pin them on 28c3 congress. Best regards, Andreas

On 28c3: Building a Distributed Satellite Ground Station Network - A Call To Arms - Berlin (28.12.11)

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:09:47 GMT

Good news Everyone, when you want to grab us in real life, the next chance will be on 28c3 in Berlin on 28.12.2011. Hadez and my paper had ben accepted and we had been scheduled on day 2 of the Chaos Cummunication Congress.

Building a Distributed Satellite Ground Station Network - A Call To Arms Hackers need satellites. Hackers need internet over satellites. Satellites require ground stations. Let's build them!

http://bit.ly/uLfj5H We are really flattered, that we will present amoung all those hackers and their creative and important topics. What an honour. We are really keen to get to know you and discuss our paper and of course we want to know your opinions about life, the universe and everything. When you will also attend, please drop us a line and we will have a drink there and chat. We will also be around to have some conversations with Part Time Scientist members presenting there and whatever will catch our eyes. We added a new item on "Make a donation -> Congress: 28c3 Expenses". See you in space, hackers of earth! Andreas, over!

TrackJack: HyEnD batch#1 25% done

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:41:30 GMT

Good news everyone! Due to all your combined efforts the HyEnD batch#1 is done by 25%. The Constellation team wants to thank you! The batch was started in April 11, when Constellation went public. So There is still something to do for you all, whether you already are a Constellation cruncher or a newbie. Keep on crunching! THANK YOU! Andreas Hornig

Website: "Supporter & Sponsor" page new, new team member

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:03:12 GMT

Good news Everyone, we have something new to read. Perhaps you already asked yourself who is supporting Constellation and you can now have more details on "Supporter & Sponsor" and you and your society, club or company can also become a supporter or sponsor. And Wissam Rammo joined our team, so please give him a heartly welcome! He will help to find new sub-projects and applications. So when you have an application, contact him! Andreas

Constellation beta one year ago, donations and new hardware application

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:02:49 GMT

One year ago, we opened Constellation for the first wave of users for the beta test. Until then, we really improved Constellation a lot because of your sugestions and remarks. In behalf of the Constellation Team, I want to thank you all. We think that you users are an essential part of our project and we have a place on our team-page. Without you, Constellation wouldn't be possible. I also want to take this opportunity to give special thanks to our donators, who believe in our platform and made donations. That's propelling our endeavor. Some of you used PayPal and our website system recognizes this and donates "Crowns" on their detail pages. Some of you used Flattr, but this is unfortunately not supported yet. So I would like to offer you Flattr users to send me an email stating their donation (with a proof, like Screenshot) and I will set this "Crown" by hand. As you helped us to improve our system, we should make Flattr and other services create a fitting API, so that BOINC can directly recognize this donation. This news started with a description of our beta test and it will end with beta tests. Our latest supporter shack e.V. and we are working on a new application for Constellation. This will be a hardware application and serving as a distributed groundstation network. It's currently under development and we can't go into specific details currently. But you can also be part in this and bringing in even the tiniest skill you think can be usefull. We don't promise you when it will be finished or if it will be ever finished, BUT we promise you that we will try our very best to create new and interesting applications to you. -- Andreas Hornig

Hackers in Space - Shackspace as new supporter of Constellation Platform

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:06:07 GMT

After the meeting in Stuttgart's Shackspace, Constellation and Shackspace will join efforts to create a new subproject with current working title "Hackerspace Global Grid" where one aspect will be to create a distributed ground station. We are happy to announce Shack e.V. as a new aspect to our Constellation Platform and are excited about the progress. Be part, the universe is yours! Enlist on our email-list. Hackers in Space campaign as proposed on Chaos Communication Camp 2011 Andreas

Treffen: Constellation at Shackspace Stuttgart

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:05:57 GMT

shackspace l�dt am Samstag den 24. September 2011 ab 15:00 Uhr alle Interessierten in seine R�ume ein um in lockerer Runde �ber das Constellation Projekt zu diskutieren. Im Speziellen geht es um den Konzeptentwurf f�r eine verteilte Bodenstation zum Empfang von Satellitensignalen in Amateurfunkb�ndern. Das Treffen wird geleitet von Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Andreas Hornig welcher sich im Rahmen seiner Studien an der Universit�t Stuttgart eingehend mit dem Constellation Projekt besch�ftigt. Aus der Projektbeschreibung: [...] Das Projekt �verteilte Bodensation� [soll erm�glichen] Daten von Satelliten zu empfangen und an den Rezipienten weiterzuleiten. Dazu soll ein weltweit verteiltes Antennennetzwerk aufgebaut werden, die �ber das Internet empfangene Signale zu einem zentralen Server schicken und von dort aus zu den Rezipienten. Die einzelnen Antennen stehen dabei bei Freiwilligen Helfern (Citizen Scientist) und Partnereinrichtungen (Universit�ten, Institute, Firmen). Ziel soll es sein eine g�nstige Hardwareplattform mit Antennen und Empf�ngern zum Anschluss an Heim-Computern und die dazu erforderliche Software zu erstellen, mit dem ein kosteng�nstiger Empfang m�glich wird, und schwarze Empfangsflecken auf der Weltkarte zwischen den eigenen und gemieteten Empfangsstationen gef�llt wird. Es wird dabei Wert auf die Teilnahme von Freiwilligen und Amateurfunkern gelegt, die sich passiv beim Empfang als auch aktiv bei der Gestaltung des Projektes beteiligen k�nnen, um daraus ein Communityprojekt mit Open-Source Anwendungen zu gestalten. [...] Zum Treffen: Eintritt frei! Jeder ist willkommen! Um eine formlose Anmeldung (Doodle) wird gebeten. Datum: 24. September 2011 Beginn: 15 Uhr Anfahrtsbeschreibung Zum Blogeintrag auf shackspace.de

SGC2011 and IAC2011 in Cape Town, ZA (29.09.11-07.10.11)

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:40:36 GMT

Good News Everyone, thanks to OHB, Space Generation Advisory Council and DLR I was granted a scholarship to attend Space Generation Congress 2011 and International Astronautical Congress 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa (29.09.11-07.10.11). My TYCHO-L4L5 moon mission had been chosen and I will present it at the SGC11 (read news and proposal). I applied for SGC2011 with Constellation under "Society" and will also present it there. If you will be there, just fell free to contact me. For everybody else, I will do a report. Thank you so much, I'm still flattered!

Interview for L'Alliance Francophone [Eng/Fre]

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:11:06 GMT

Could you please introduce yourself? My name is Andreas Hornig and I'm the head of the Constellation Platform. I'm an aerospace engineer with a Diplom (FH) from University of Applied Sciences Bremen and doing another Diplom with specialisation in Space Systems and Space Applications (Raumfahrtsysteme und Raumfahrtanwendungen) at the University of Stuttgart. Could you introduce the team that is in charge of the project? The Constellation team consists of an interdisciplinary mixture from aerospace related professions and topics, from server admins to earth and space enthusiasts. A complete list can be found here and feel free to contact each of us according our expertises. Withouth the team, this project wouldn't be as progressed, as it is today. We are a rather small team, but we are also a young academics group at the university and are always looking for new team-members, who want to be part of our team and let our team grow. And we feel, that you, the crunching volunteers, are part of our team, too. You can take part in decisions, like we asked you what duration our workunits should have to please you, or with what frequency you set your check pointing to implement it in our application. And of course participation is so important for us, that you can also create your own sub-project that can run on the platform. The complete Interview and a French translation can be found on boinc-af.org Have a nice race! Thank you for the interview.

Short Downtime due to Donated RAM Installation (21.07.11 18:00-19:00 CEST)

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:43:39 GMT

Hello Everyone, today, 21.07.11, there will be a short downtime at 18:00-19:00 CEST due to installation of 2 new RAM bars. These Samsung M378T5663EH3-CF7 2GB DDR2 800 MHz (PC2-6400) could been bought from your generous donations and the Constellation team wants to say Thank You to all our donaters! We really appreciate your help and support. The second RAM bar is only partly paid by the donation, as you can see on our Make a Donation page, so you can still support us. This installation will give us 6GB of RAM in total, that will increase database handling and will also keep our webserver running the BOINC client as well for computing our own Workunits. samsung_m378t5663eh3_cf7_server_ram_pc6400_800mhz_2gb_no1and2_2 von aerospaceresearch.net auf Flickr

You Users are Constellation! 1000 Users with Credits

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:09:52 GMT

Today, our project stats shows that Constellation is formed by 1000 users with credits. So the team want to say 2521 (all users) times thank you for all your help and support. Without you, Constellation wouldn't be possible! The Team http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/server_status.php

Linux Power/PowerPC TrackJack Application available

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:11:13 GMT

We have released a TrackJack application for Linux on Power/PowerPC(PPC) CPUs.

One year of work, first conference "DGLR Raumfahrtkonferenz 2011" and next

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:51:11 GMT

Hi Everyone, today is a special day. Today was the monthly regulars' table of Stuttgart local group of DGLR (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics). On last year's june regular's table we proposed Constellation to the local group and we found DGLR and Rechenkraft.net as our first supporters. Although the BOINC project was started even before, based on my Diploma Thesis, in june 2011 it started to form a real shape leading to the project you can attach to now. But this is not the end. We still progress and include your ideas and comments. Another important step was our participation on the "DGLR Raumfahrtkonferenz 2011 - Missionen aus Baden-W�rttemberg (DGLR Astronautics Conference - Missions from Baden-W�rttemberg)" in Stuttgart on 30.05.11. We presented our platform, our sub-project(s) and future perspectives to the professional audiences from aerospace business, university personal and other students. We had some real fruitful discussion in our booth and even in the smoking area (at least the smoking part of us :)). There could be some nice collaborations, we're working on it! If you want to get an impression, we have some pictures on http://www.flickr.com/photos/63534146@N02/sets/72157626730898759/ and there is a slide from Bj�rn Weigel, DGLR local group Stuttgart, on http://scr.bi/lGutFG (German) If you look close enough you can have a glimpse on our pre-alpha screensaver! But we don't stop here. Our next stop will be on "6th OpenFOAM workshop - PennState University" (13-16 June 2011), where we unfortunately couldn't attend personally, but we have a poster there. http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/forum_thread.php?id=63 Next time we will and have good news for them in our backpack, at least we have some work in the pipes. Some links: DGLR Stuttgart http://stuttgart.dglr.de Rechenkraft.ne e.V. http://rechenkraft.net DGLR Raumfahrtkonferenz 2011 http://www.raumfahrtkonferenz.de And finally, cheers to you all! This drink is for you crunchers! IMG_5066 von aerospaceresearch.net auf Flickr

Solaris SPARC and x86 TrackJack applications released.

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:34:57 GMT

Today we have released two TrackJack applications for Solaris 9 or newer on SPARC 64 Bit(UltraSPARC/v9) and Solaris 10 x86/x64.

HPUX I64 and PARISC applications released

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:01:20 GMT

Today we have released two applications for HPUX 11i on Itanium(IA64) and PARISC 2.0(64 Bit). More applications for other platforms will follow soon.

Project reached 1 TeraFLOPS

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:08:24 GMT

Good news, Everyone. Today Constellation reached 1 TeraFLOPS of combined cpu capacity http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/server_status.php The team wants to thank all of you participants for donating your idle PC time so that we reached this mark after 13 days of operation. If you want to know how many of your PC it will need to reach1 TeraFLOPS you can take these infos http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/cs-023143.htm#1 when you have an INTEL CPU at least. Thank you very much, we appreciate your help and we hope FLOPS count will still increase. Andreas

Server hoster maintenance on monday 18.04.2011 - 7:30-11:00

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:27:26 GMT

Hello Everyone! there will be a short server downtime due to server hoster maintenance on monday 18.04.2011 at 7:30-11:00 German time. Best regards, Andreas

MacOS 10.4(Tiger) problem fixed

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:01:45 GMT

The MacOS 10.4(Tiger) problem is fixed. If you have a MacOS 10.4 system, please perform a reset project to get the new application. Details in the forum thread. Sorry for the problems.

Constellation opens on Yuri's Night - Docking ports open and airlocks ready for space rendezvous

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:21:35 GMT

Constellation opens on Yuri's Night - Docking ports open and airlocks ready for space rendezvous Today is the 50th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight. On April 12th, 1961 soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first human to reach outer space when completed an orbit of the Earth onboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. This historic event is celebrated on several events around the earth under the name "Yuri's Night" since 2001. http://yurisnight.net/ This important cornerstone in the history of spaceflight not only inspired generations of children to become spacepioneers, but also inspired our Constellation project and we want to celebrate this event by opening our project to the public. It's our honour and pleasure to invite you to join our community, to discuss aerospace related topics and perhaps to start your own sub-project in our forum and to support scientific research by donating idle CPU time to our platform from this special day on. Constellation will start with TrackJack application that will optimize trajectories of space-launchers and spacecrafts. The first task is to find the optimum thrustcurve for HyEnD (Hybrid Engine Development), a student group at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. HyEnD is developing a hybrid propellant sounding rocket and is an official DGLR (German Aerospace Society) young-academics group and optimizing the thrust-level is supposed to increase the maximum flight altitude. http://hybrid-triebwerk.de TrackJack is a Java application and supports Windows 32 & 64 Bit, Linux 32 & 64 Bit and MacOS 32 Bit in automatic download and FreeBSD 32 & 64 Bit as manual installation. More operating systems are planned. As every space programme Constellation couldn't be realized without help. We want to thank the DGLR-Stuttgart (german aerospace society) to be an official academic student team at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. http://stuttgart.dglr.de/ We want to thank http://Rechenkraft.net e.V. in Marburg, Germany, the world-wide first voluntary association with purpose to advocate distributed computing, for pieces of advice and funding. And we want to thank http://Selfnet.de e.V. in Stuttgart for beeing our server hoster. We are really standing on shoulders of so many giants. We invite you to be part of Constellation's distributed computing space race and we reccommend to join a Yuri's Night event in your area! We salute to Yuri and all space pioneers who came before and after him who made this dream possible. Distributed computing for human kind! About Constellation: Constellation is a platform for different aerospace related projects that need intensive computational power. The platform supports the efforts of participating projects by providing Distributed Computation capability using BOINC. Constellation will send work-units of attached projects to volunteering, idle PCs where the units are processed. The combined power of all volunteering users will help to solve important scientific tasks in fields from astronomy to aerospace-engineering beginning from student up to university projects. 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 andinfluencing the others' simulation by its own solutions. The platform is an open space for anyone, who is an air and space enthusiast and wants to donate idle computing time or even skill for a sub-project on platform. Applications for sub-project are welcome! About Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet Cosmonaut born 9th march 1934 in Klushino (RUS). He was the first man in space. 1960 he and 19 other pilots selected for the Soviet space program. Gagarin and Gherman Titov selected out of the 20 pilots after a training and physical characteristic-tests. Gagarin (1.57meters) and Titov were short and that was perfect for the small Vostok cockpit. In an anonymously vote under the 20 pilots (Which other candidate they would like to see as the first man in space), only 3 didn�t chose Gagarin. On 12th April 1961 he flew with the Spaceship �Vostok 1� and orbited earth it in 108 minutes. He died in a jet-crash on 27th March 1968, but the cause is uncertain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin http://yur.is/1stOrbitMovie YouTube-video

Trackjack 0.06

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:34:45 GMT

We have released the new TrackJack application version 0.06. But, in the Windows application, a failure happened and the WUs errored out. Please make a reset project, to get the new Windows Application.

Patchinstallation and reboot 24.2.2010

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:42:34 GMT

For thursday, 24.2.2010 we planed a patch installation and a reboot of the server from 17:30 to 18:30 UTC.

Working on TrackJack v0.05 and HyEnD task

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:50:35 GMT

Good news, everyone! We are in internal testphase for TrackJack v0.05. We're checking plausibility and the improved savepointing. Additionally we narrowing parameters for HyEnD's tasks http://bit.ly/g7fXQ6. So we're in final spurt! new features v0.05: * +optimizing thrustcurve * improved savepointing by redundancy * some fixing/tweaking

... and a happy new year 2011!

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:41:42 GMT

The Constellation Team also wishes you a happy new year in addition to the previous season greating http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/forum_thread.php?id=38. Party where ever you are! See you again next year! The Constellation Team!

Constellation wishes you a merry Christmas and happy Crunchmas!

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:15:31 GMT

The Constellation-Team wishes you a merry christmas, and have a nice chrunchmas during your holidays! We'll do our best to give you a nice WU-gift. After the festivities we'll be there for you 24/7 and will update the TrackJack app. Until then, have a wonderfull time with your families! The Constellation Team!

Winter solstice will bring you 100 invite-codes before christmas!

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:38:30 GMT

Today, on December 21, 2010, winter solstice will occur at 23:38 (or 11.38pm) Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on the northern hemisphere, leading to the shortest day and longest night. So the days will be longer from this day on. This important stellar day and because of imminent christmas the Constellation-Team decided to present you with 100 individual invite-codes for our project. This will be done with first "come-first, first served" principle and will only last until 2010/12/23-23:59:59UTC, so that we can be sure that anyone will get his/her invite-code before christmas eve. What you have to do is to contact us with ONE out of three ways and send us your desired nickname and a working email-address. We will then create your account and send you your temporary invite-code/account-password to the given email-address. You will then change the password and the account is officially yours. For the last action, where users send in really good simulation ideas and they got the invite-codes for their ideas, we promoted it on several websites and forums. This time you will spread the good word, so you can follow twitter account http://twitter.com/ARDNnews and send us a private message to our, join our facebook-site AerospaceResearch.net http://www.facebook.com/pages/AerospaceResearchnet/146743982016629?ref=ts and stick a PM on our pinwall to this notice (just post a notice without both datas, because WE will contact YOU there to give us the nickname and the email-address. No one else should know your data) or send us an email to constellation@aerospaceresearch.net. There is only one code for each person so just send in your personal and individual data and only via one of the 3 ways. Please make sure to send us the both, nickname and your email-address. Both infos will set the delivery time and this will rank you for the 100 give-away invite-codes. We won't accept incomplete inquiries and we can't contact each and every of you 100 people telling you to resend complete data. We hope that you will like our christmas gift and you will help us to open the project to the public sometime after the christmas holidays. Have a nice longest night with clear sky for optical astronomy! The Constellation-Team PS: Summer solstice will be on the southern hemisphere and if you are living there you are also invited to get a code!

Working on TrackJack v0.04

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:06:26 GMT

Good news, Everyone! after we ran out of workunits http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/forum_thread.php?id=10 we started to work on some improvements, that's why we haven't created new WUs so far. Some of you already attached to the TrackJack-Beta app and helped us checking it. The new things are * TrackJack app additions and a result fix * Using Java "JRE 6.0.22" now. It includes security bugfixes. * switching from ZIP-compression to the OpenSource 7ZIP-compression giving us smaller files. As a result we can decrease datarates and you can receive apps and WUs faster. Please give us some time to test the beta before we release it in the main-app branch for everybody. Thank you so far for your help, Andreas

Server reboot 4.11.2010

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:12:57 GMT

After installing some OS patches and upgrades, we need to make a short reboot for today 4.11.2010. The reboot will been initiated between 19:00 and 20:00. The downtime will be about 5 to 15 minutes.

We ran out of Workunits, that's actually a good thing!

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:53:21 GMT

Hi everybody, we ran out of Workunits and that's actually a good thing! The last results are beeing processed right now http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/server_status.php and after these will have been finished, the team will use this WU-less time to do some re-arrangements. We hope you don't mind! Afterwards we will create workunits to check the results with previous processed workunits from my Diploma Thesis and do a validation. There will be more workunits for you, because the current set kept you bussy for JUST one week, and even longer running workunit. The longer running workunits will be even new for me, because they exceeded my personal computing power, so this will be very exciting for me. The ordinary work will also been done in the meantime, concerning webpages about the project, the team, science ... and everything. Thank you very much for your help and participation! Andreas Hornig

Constellation welcomes maiden-flight passengers!

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:01:20 GMT

I want to welcome you in behalf of the Constellation-Crew on board of our maiden-flight. If you encounter any problem or other occurance, please let us know. We'll do our best to fix it according to your given infos. The website will take form bit by bit and will give you more information on what we want to achieve and how you help us. The next steps will be to publish project infos and your send ideas. We hope you will experience a nice and safe flight! Your Constellation Crew!

Constellation Invite-Code action started

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:01:57 GMT

Constellation Invite-Code action started here http://bit.ly/bLmu6I @Rechenkraft_net (German language, but not exclusively for Germans!). More places will follow, even in other languages. Watch the sky and be creative! Andreas Hornig -- www.aerospaceresearch.net/constellation

First News Test Thread

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:04:42 GMT

Hi, This test thread will self destruct in minus 10 seconds! 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 boom! Okay, news are working! Fine, finally!