Adrian Wenz at Binary Space informs me that SpaceMissions™ is now available in the Microsoft Store. SpaceMissions™ is a 3D Solar System & Space Missions Simulator supporting most Earth-centric spacecraft as well as some selected interplanetary missions (like MSL, Rosetta, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Software
Here is the latest TMRO.tv show: KubOS, An Operating System for CubeSats – Orbit 10.23 – TMRO Marshall Culpepper the CEO & Co-founder of KubOS joins us to talk about their operating system for CubeSats and how they are helping to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out this cool Google experimental app called Land Lines. Just draw a short curvy line and it will instantly find a satellite image of a spot on the earth with a linear feature that matches your line: Land Lines is an […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Astro Maven Rick Boozer points me to his new application program: Automated Astronomical Object Feature Measurer – Want to know the size (in kilometers or miles) of a sunspot, lunar crater, festoon on Jupiter, etc. that you see in a photographic image? My […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An updated version of the free spaceflight sim Orbiter is now available: Orbiter 2016 Space Flight Simulator Explore the solar system on your PC! Fed up with space games that insult your intelligence and violate every law of physics? Orbiter is a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out the Cosmic-Watch app for Android and Apple: The Cosmic Watch shows the local time at every location worldwide – just touch the place on the depicted globe to indicate the time. The watch is also an astronomical navigator, an armillary sphere (machine of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An update to the SpaceTraveler Solar System & Space Missions Simulator at BINARY SPACE now includes the OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu, which just launched this month. (See the posting OSIRIS-REx to return sample of asteroid Bennu.) Note that SpaceTraveler is not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sebastián García Rojas points me to his Deep Sky Objects Browser – The site was born as a necessity of answering questions such as “which galaxies rise at least 40 degrees above the horizon for 2 hours between 10pm and 2am at […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BINARY SPACE’s Satellite Tracking Tool is now available as a free app for Windows 10: SpaceTracker™ – Windows Games on Microsoft Store The SpaceTracker™ is a 2D/3D real-time satellite tracking application. It allows you to determine the current position of most Earth-centric satellites […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out the new Solaris Sky Calendar: Solaris Sky Calendar is an astronomy calendar app that shows you upcoming celestial events. With it, you would never miss the next meteor shower, lunar eclipse, planet conjunction or one of hundreds of other events […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a video of Stephen Wolfram’s recent SETI Institute seminar: SETI and the Computational Universe – SETI Institute Dr Stephen Wolfram, founder & CEO of Wolfram Research, and creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language will come to the SETI Institute to discuss […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
John Walker, founder of Autodesk, Inc. and co-author of AutoCAD, has posted a big Screenshot Gallery obtained from running Kerbal Space Program and learning a whole lot about rockets, orbital mechanics, and other aspects of spaceflight : New: Kerbal Space Program Screenshot Gallery – Fourmilog: None Dare Call […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More positive reviews for the Kerbal Space Program (see earlier post): * Kerbal Space Program review: A playful masterpiece of space exploration – The Washington Post “Kerbal Space Program” is the kind of game one’s never finished playing. Its ends always feel […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kerbal Space Program 1.0
Kerbal Space Program has reached version 1.0 status. It gets a glowing review here: Kerbal Space Program review – PC Gamer. Kerbal Space Program is about building and flying rockets into space. Chances are you already knew that, because it was first […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Buzz Aldrin says at WhoSay, “My game – Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager is finally available on iPad!” From game software house and publisher Slitherine Ltd: “Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what’s beyond.” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I posted previously about SpaceTraveller, a “solar system simulator and space mission visualizer program” under development by BINARY SPACE, which provides the Satellite Tracking Tool here and with whom I work to make the Virtual SpaceTV 3D animated news reports. That post included a video demonstrating a simulation […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Kerbal Space Program is a game where the players create and manage their own space program. Build spacecraft, fly them, and try to help the Kerbals to fulfill their ultimate mission of conquering space. Although inhabited by comic Kerbal characters, the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rick Boozer on his Astro Maven blog has posted the fifth and final installment of Photometry with AIP4WIN: a Tutorial, which is aimed at astronomers both amateur and professional: Part 5 – Setting up and performing differential photometry Part 4 – Image Calibration […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rick Boozer on his Astro Maven blog has posted the fourth installment of his Photometry with AIP4WIN: a Tutorial, which is aimed at astronomers both amateur and professional: Part 4 – Image Calibration Part 3 Flat-field preparation Part 2 Bias and dark frames Part […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The UK company Slitherine Ltd created the space-themed game Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager. Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager (SPM) Road to the Moon is the ultimate game of space exploration. It is the mid 1950s and the race for dominance […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…