Space Arts, Space Music

Space music from starlight and more

‘s latest space music posting  looks at three musicians: Space Music: Buddhist Stars, Sun Sounds and Alphabet’s Heaven – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks.

He begins with Lucianne Walkowicz, who works as a Princeton astrophysicist in her day job on the Kepler mission. She creates

sonifications of data from NASA’s Kepler mission. The sounds you hear are drawn from changes measured in the brightness of stars, which have certain frequencies that depend on how rapidly the star is spinning.

Find more about her music at

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The second musician is Robert Alexander and Lamb points to the recent VICE video about him, which I reported on here.

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The third entry in Lamb’s piece is

the video for Alphabet’s Heaven’ s “Birthday” from Siamese Burn EP on King Deluxe, animated by Renata Gąsiorowska. Absolutely lovely.

Contests and Games, DIY space, Rockets

DIYROCKETS and the 3D Rocket Challenge

DIYROCKETS.com describes itself as

a global space company helping humanity establish a civilization in space by building an open space frontier.

​Our mission is to lower the cost of space exploration as much as possible by generating extremely low-cost knowledge and technology through open sourcing and crowdsourcing. We believe in harnessing the talent and resources of all to build a democratized space industry

Their  partners include Sunglass, Shapeways, the Silicon Valley Space Center, and Citizens in Space.

They are currently sponsoring a 3D ROCKET CHALLENGE

DIYROCKETS Challenges YOU to Collaboratively Design an Open Source 3D Printed Rocket Engine that Could Carry Nano-Satellites into Space

THE CHALLENGE

​Over the last few years multiple companies, institutions and individuals have started building nano-satellites and other small satellites. These little satellites are packed with electronics and range from the size of a computer chip to a smart phone to a pumpkin. With their communication and research capabilities, they have multiple applications working individually or in coordination with one another. But, with the high cost of earth to space transport, how in the world are they going to get up into space?

We challenge YOU to design a 3D printed rocket engine that could become part of a propulsion system and vehicle to carry nano-satellites into space.

 

Everyone can participate in space