Exciting! The TychoMission is taking part in ESA’s #Moonlight call-for-ideas enabling use cases on the #Moon with a lunar communications & navigation service (LCNS). What do you think about our #space #lasercomms supporting crewed exploration from everywhere http://tiny.cc/tycho4moonlight?
Again for the 7th time, AerospaceResearch.net[0] is proud to be selected as an official mentoring organization for the Summer of Code 2021 (GSOC) program run by Google[1].
And we are now looking for students to spend their summers coding on great open-source space software, getting paid by Google, releasing scientific papers about their projects and supporting the open-source space community.
Until 13th ot April 2021, students can apply for an hands on experience with applied space programs. As an umbrella organisation, AerospaceResearch.net and ep2lab of Carlos III University of Madrid are offering you various coding ideas[2] to work on:
If you are a student, take your giant leap into the space community, realizing your very own space software, and the chance to be recognized by Google headhunters.
If you are professor, feel free to propose this great opportunity to your students or even have your projects being coded and realized!
During the last years, we mentored more than 21 students during Summer of Code campaigns[6] and now, we achieved several great things together. We have released several papers. We spent computing power worth 60,000 PCs to those students projects, even helping their bachelor theses, and indirectly supporting the IMEX program[5] by the European Space Agency(ESA). And as a surprise and an honor for us, we had been on plenary stage with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield to promote those projects during the International Astronautical Congress 2014 in Toronto.
We want to repeat that success, and now it’s your turn to be active in open-source space!
Apply today, find all projects on the GSOC webpage![1]
We are waiting for you,
Andreas Hornig, Head of Platform
[0] https://aerospaceresearch.net/?page_id=2156
[1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com
[2] https://aerospaceresearch.net/?page_id=2156#codingideas
[3] http://ksat-stuttgart.de
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC4Ls3AGHf4
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY0vjbBp4eg
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkklxZxjT-8&list=PL-lXf3kTWgqybFL-VOmVxKyjnrVPE7DBB
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# About Google Summer of Code (GSOC)[1]:
Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development. Students work on a 3 month programming project with an open source organization during their break from university.
Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together 12,000+ student participants and 11,000 mentors from over 127 countries worldwide. Google Summer of Code has produced 30,000,000+ lines of code for 568 open source organizations.
As a part of Google Summer of Code, student participants are paired with a mentor from the participating organizations, gaining exposure to real-world software development and techniques. Students have the opportunity to spend the break between their school semesters earning a stipend while working in areas related to their interests.
In turn, the participating organizations are able to identify and bring in new developers who implement new features and hopefully continue to contribute to open source even after the program is over. Most importantly, more code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.
# About AerospaceResearch.net[0]:
We are a DGLR young academics group at the University of Stuttgart for aerospace related simulations applying distributed computing. Our global citizen scientists community of 15,000 users are donating their idle computing time of 60,000 computers and forming a virtual super computer connected via the Internet. And this massive network is used for solving difficult space numerics or for sensor applications. We are bringing space down to Earth and supporting the space community from students to organizations.
# Distributed Ground Station Network [DGSN]:
The Distributed Ground Station Network is a system for tracking and communication with small satellites and other aerial vehicles. The concept includes a global network of small and cheap ground stations that track beacon signals sent by the satellite, plane or balloon. The ground stations are located at ordinary people at home, so called citizen scientists, and are connected via the Internet. A broadcasted beacon signal is received by at least 5 stations and can be used then for trilateration to obtain the position of the signal’s origin. For this each ground station correlates the received signal with the precise reception time, which is globally provided and synchronized by GPS. This shall help small satellite provider and even Google’s Loon project to be able to track their vehicles fast, globally and simple!
It is time again for Hacktoberfest and we already took part in it with our projects and and in related projects. We will hack together, finish stuff for the GSOC projects and even some of us will take part in the virtual NASA SpaceApps Challenge. All of these open source projects can use your help. So you will do something good and also earn a brand new, limited hacktoberfest shirt!
Again for the 6th time, AerospaceResearch.net[0] is proud to be selected as an official mentoring organization for the Summer of Code 2020 (GSOC) program run by Google[1].
And we are now looking for students to spend their summers coding on great open-source space software, getting paid up to 6600 USD by Google, releasing scientific papers about their projects and supporting the open-source space community.
Until 31. March 2020, students can apply for an hands on experience with applied space programs. As an umbrella organisation, AerospaceResearch.net, KSat-Stuttgart e.V. and ep2lab of Carlos III University of Madrid are offering you various coding ideas[2] to work on:
If you are a student, take your giant leap into the space community, realizing your very own space software, and the chance to be recognized by Google headhunters.
If you are professor, feel free to propose this great opportunity to your students or even have your projects being coded and realized!
It is time again for Hacktoberfest and we already took part in it with our projects and earned our free t-shirt already. We will hack together on our projects, finish stuff for the GSOC projects and some of th team will be in the US for the International Astronautical Congress (IAC2019) in Washinton DC. And even there, we will take part in NASA SpaceAppsDC and will collaboratively work on open-source projects and creat pull-requests earning us fame, respect and a new Tee.
The goal Hacktoberfest was and still is that everyone create at least 4 pull-requests by adding new features or fixing bugs to the software projects and earning a free and limited edition t-shirt by doing so. Hacktoberfest is from 1st to 31st of October 2019.
The hackathon was great, but the Hacktoberfest is still not over. You can start coding your improvements to your own or other people’s projects right now and we would be more than happy if we see your pull-request popping up on our github repository!
Start earning your hacktoberfest shirt today, and never stop coding for open-source software!
Dear SatObs/SeeSat-L community,
We are students, taking part in Google Summer of Code 2019, and we seek your help!
We are working on an open-source project called OrbitDeterminator [w] that aims to determine the orbital parameters of satellites based on your positional data in various formats. Currently, we prepared the software so far and our next step is to test it to see how accurately it can determine satellite orbits So we would like to ask for your help in a few points to test our code under real-life conditions and your use-cases.
We would like to tackle data of special interest for us and you, namely the StarLink satellite train and NOAA satellites. With the much talked-about StarLink observation data we can hopefully help the community to get an additional set of improved TLEs. And NOAAs are interesting for us because the TLEs are already available and we will be able to compare our results with existing TLEs.
So it would be great if you could provide us with observational positional data produced by positional observers on SatObs in IOD, UK and RDE formats. And in case there are none available yet, we would be more than happy to organize a small “global” observation campaign within the next month.
With this call-for-help, we suggest the 19th to 21st of July for us all to hunt the StarLink and NOAA satellites (more info in the information box below)
With your help, we will provide you with a tool that is freely available, is easy to use and produces accurate results and benefits the satellite observing community. This information and data that you will provide will give more purpose to our code, where as we will try our best to give meaning to your data.
It would be our pleasure to end our Google Summer of Code project with this “field testing”, bringing our OrbitDeterminator package to good use within the SatObs community, and reporting our test speculations as a technical paper for the next International Aeronautical Congress 2019 call for papers in Washington DC.
Below you will find our initial line of thoughts and we are open to all discussions that will promote improvements in the same.
So who would be kind enough to answer our “call for help”? Feel free to answer on the mailing list or contact [m] us directly. We are looking forward to your positive reply!
Best regards,
Krishna, Rakshit & Vidhan (GSoC students)
Nilesh, Arya & Aakash (GSoC mentors)
m: gsoc2019@aerospaceresearch.net
c: https://aerospaceresearch.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/147024-OrbitDeterminator
w: https://github.com/aerospaceresearch/orbitdeterminator
If we will get more questions during our discussion on the mailinglist, we will send it to the ML. And if we need to share some data, we can use this google drive folder.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17K1yleBHyZw_c_vOYpbwx5IJRmoQfz2i?usp=sharing
PS: I am forwarding this email on behalf of the GSOC students. They subsribed a few weeks ago and just received the „Your subscription request has been forwarded to the list administrator at seesat-l-owner@satobs.org for review.“ notice and no further confirmation. Would you please be so kind and subscribe them to the list? It will make conversion much easier for them.
this summer will purely be a summer of code! We are not only offering you Google Summer of Code (GSOC 2019, still open until April 9th), but also the European Space Agency’s Summer of Code in Space 2019 (ESA SOCIS).
Now it is up to you to decide if you want to code open-source space with us during ESA Summer of Code in space 2019? You should!
Be our Summer Student and code your open-source space projects. You get stipends of up to 4000€. The Call for ESA SOCIS 2019 is now open!
Together, we as AerospaceResearch.net, Ksat-Stuttgart (University of Stuttgart) and EP2Lab (Carlos III University of Madrid) are proud to be selected as official mentoring organizations for the ESA Summer of Code in Space 2019.
And we are now looking for students to spend their summers coding on great open-source space software, getting paid by ESA, releasing scientific papers about their projects and supporting the open-source space community by useful programmes.
Are you a student? You have time until May 4, 2019, to apply for various coding ideas to work on, and be part of out team!
More information and registration here.
ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) is a program run by the European Space Agency that focuses on bringing student developers into open source software development for space applications. Students work with a mentoring organization on a 3 month programming project during their summer break.
Through SOCIS, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating organizations and with experts from ESA (where available), thus gaining exposure to open source software development and insights from ESA. In turn, the participating organizations are able to prototype new open source projects and possibly bring in new developers to work on relevant topics for space.
SOCIS is inspired by (but not affiliated or related in any way to) Google’s Summer of Code initiative, and is designed with the following objectives in mind:
For further information, please chat with us on https://aerospaceresearch.zulipchat.com
Again for the 5th time, AerospaceResearch.net[0] is proud to be selected as an official mentoring organization for the Summer of Code 2019 (GSOC) program run by Google[1].
And we are now looking for students to spend their summers coding on great open-source space software, getting paid up to 6600 USD by Google, releasing scientific papers about their projects and supporting the open-source space community.
Until 9. April 2019, students can apply for an hands on experience with applied space programs. As an umbrella organisation, AerospaceResearch.net, KSat-Stuttgart e.V. and ep2lab of Carlos III University of Madrid are offering you various coding ideas[2] to work on:
During the Google Summer of Code 2018 Mentors Summit, many projects used the open-source Zulip Chat for discussing their projects and planning their next steps.
It is a fine little chat in the spirit of Slack, but fully open-source.
We started using it for our projects and for our general discussions. So if you are looking for us, want to onboard the projects or have an idea to propose, we welcome you to join our ZulipChat channel. We are looking to meet you on
Our event in Jena will be special because it will be the first and currently only location that is a „Makerspace“. Makerspaces are places were people can work on creative solutions for global or private problems. And this kind of free „maker“ spirit is what will also help solve problems in space exploration. So you have the unique chance to join other creative people during the #SpaceTalks and also to take part in a full week of workshops. Because #SpaceTalks will initiate the FunkWoche during which you can come here and work on everything related to communications, be it radio frequencies, lasers, amateur radio,…. and also satellite communications. So we will bring #SpaceTalks to Jena under this flag of „FunkWoche 2018/2 and ESA’s European Spacetalks – space and even more radio! / FunkWoche 2018/2 und ESA’s European Spacetalks – Raumfahrt und noch mehr Funk“.
The event will take place at the Jena Hackspace, will be hybrid with Lightning Talks (short 15-20 minute talks of you!) for #SpaceTalks and as the starting event for the hamradio workshop week FunkWoche – and be on Monday, 19 November 2018, 2000hrs to 2130hrs. Talks and discussions may be in German or in English. Everyone is welcome.
Lightning Talks:
Due to limited places, please register here or on meetup and RVSP this in your calendars! Further details tbc in the next weeks. We are inviting you to give a lightning talk. Just send us your title at contact@aerospaceresearch.net.
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