ExternalResources

From ShortHike

A collection of links to various relevant websites. Please add any you may know of.

Table of contents

1 Information Websites 1.1 Encyclopedic 1.2 History 1.3 News 1.4 Miscellaneous 2 Programs, Images, and other Files 2.1 Programs 2.2 Image Galleries 2.3 Miscellaneous 3 Government Space Agencies 4 Aerospace Companies 4.1 Ansari X Prize Participants 5 Active Missions 5.1 Space-Based Observatories 5.2 Mars Missions 5.3 Miscellaneous 6 Space Stations 6.1 Factual 6.2 Theoretical 7 Public Space Interest Societies

Information Websites

Encyclopedic

• Encyclopedia Astronautica (http://www.astronautix.com/index.html) - Massive encyclopedia-like resource.
• Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight (http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/ETEmain.html) - "An Alphabetical Guide to the Living Universe".
• Gunter's Space Page (http://space.skyrocket.de/) - Information on Launch Vehicles, Satellites, Space Shuttles and Astronautics.
• Russian Space Web (http://www.russianspaceweb.com/) - A detailed listing on the entire Russian space program, from the first rockets to their version of the shuttle.
• Space Projects and Info (http://members.lycos.co.uk/spaceprojects/) - This site looks like it might be interesting as a quick reference.

History

• A History of Manned Space Missions (http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_missions/manned_table.html&edu=high) - Ends in 1993.
• Moon Trees (http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/moon_tree.html) - Some interesting, if trivial, history.

News

• NasaSpaceFlight.com (http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/) - News and forums; unaffiliated with NASA despite the name.
• ScienceDaily (http://www.sciencedaily.com/) - General science news with encyclopedia.
• Space.com (http://space.com/) - Space news.
• SpaceRef (http://www.spaceref.com/) - Space news.
• Universe Today (http://www.universetoday.com/) - Space news.

Miscellaneous

• Bad Astronomy (http://www.badastronomy.com/).
• Basics of Space Flight (http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/index.html) - Provided by NASA's JPL.
• CBAT/MPC/ICQ Index (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/TheIndex.html) - Lots of info on minor bodies (comets, asteroids, etc.).
• Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/) - Reference database, service catalouge, sky atlas, and more.
• Don's Cosmology Pages (http://www.tricitiesnet.com/donsastronomy/intro.html) - Info on cosmology, asteroid mining, and space stations.
• George W. Collins, II (http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/collins/) - A few links to web versions of this stellar astrophysicist's books are here.
• Keck (http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/) - Homepage for the W.M. Keck Observatory, the world's largest optical and infrared telescopes.
• Manned Spaceflight PDF Documents (http://www.geocities.com/bobandrepont/spacepdf.htm) - With links to unmanned spaceflight and launch vehicle PDF documents.
• Physics Forums (http://www.physicsforums.com/).
• Physics Topics (http://orca.phys.uvic.ca/~tatum/index.html) - Has a few downloadable e-texts on various physics topics, including some related to guild interests.
• Space Mission Acronym List and Hyperlink Guide (http://ranier.oact.hq.nasa.gov/Sensors_page/MissionLinks.html).
• Space Settlement Initiative (http://www.spacesettlement.org/) - Discusses property law in space.
• X Prize Foundation (http://www.xprizefoundation.com/default.asp).

Programs, Images, and other Files

Programs

• BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) - Includes such projects as SETI@Home and Einstein@Home.
• Celestia (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/index.html) - Planetarium/galactic atlas, or something like that.
• Digital Universe Atlas (http://haydenplanetarium.org/universe/) - 3D atlas of the universe by Haden Planetarium.
• Free Astronomy (http://www.cspltd.ndirect.co.uk/education/astronomy.htm) - Various freeware astronomy programs, including another gravity simulator.
• Free Virtual Galaxy Project (http://www.ccm.net/~jrsmith/instl.html) - Old, but someone may find some use from it.
• Gravity Simulator (http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravity/articles/what.html) - A free gravity simulator.
• NASA World Wind (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/) - A great tool for browsing some very detailed Earth datasets like Blue Marble, Landsat 7, SRTM, MODIS, GLOBE and others.
• Orbiter (http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html) - A free space flight simulator.
• ORSA (http://orsa.sourceforge.net/) - "Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis"; open source.
• Stellarium (http://www.stellarium.org/) - Open source planetarium software.

Image Galleries

• 2MASS (http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/) - Two Micron All Sky Survey Image Gallery.
• HubbleSite (http://hubblesite.org/) - Pictures from the Hubble telescope.
• Images from Mars Global Surveyor (http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/) - Provided by Malin Space Science Systems.
• Images from Spitzer (http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/data.shtml).

Miscellaneous

• Modeling (http://www.marscenter.it/eng/modellismo.htm) - You can make cardstock models of some spacecraft and space stations with the .pdf files here. Beware, parts of the site are in Italian.

Government Space Agencies

• CONAE (http://www.conae.gov.ar) - Argentina.
• FFG (http://www.asaspace.at/) - Austria.
• BIRA-IASB (http://www.oma.be/BIRA-IASB/) - Belgium.
• INPE (http://www.inpe.br/) - Brazil.
• CSA (http://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/) - California (government/corporate alliance).
• CSA (http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/index.html) - Canada.
• CNSA (http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/main_e.asp) - China.
• DNSC (http://spacecenter.dk/) - Denmark.
• ESA (http://www.esa.int/) - Europe.
• FSRI (http://www.fsri.org/default2.asp) - Florida.
• CERT (http://www.cert.fr/) - France.
• CNES (http://www.cnes.fr) - France.
• DLR (http://www.dlr.de/) - Germany.
• ISRO (http://www.isro.org/) - India.
• ASI (http://www.asi.it/) - Italy.
• JAXA (http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html) - Japan.
• NASDA (http://www.nasda.go.jp/index_e.html) - Japan (Became JAXA in 2003; NASDA site still maintained, but not updated).
• NIVR (http://www.nivr.nl/) - Netherlands.
• NLR (http://www.nlr.nl/public/en/index.php) - Netherlands.
• NSC (http://www.spacecentre.no/) - Norway.
• ASR (http://portal.rosa.ro/) - Romania.
• IKI (http://arc.iki.rssi.ru/eng/index.htm) - Russia.
• RKA - Russia (Should be the primary Russian agency, but their web site seems to be non-existant).
• Russian Federal Space Agency (http://www.roscosmos.ru/) - The primary Russian agency according to NASA.
• SNSB (http://www.snsb.se/dyn_aktuellt.asp?languageId=2) - Sweden.
• SSC (http://www.ssc.se/) - Sweden (government-established corporation).
• BNSC (http://www.bnsc.gov.uk/default.aspx?nid=3191) - United Kingdom.
• NASA (http://www.nasa.gov) - United States of America.

Aerospace Companies

• Aerojet (http://www.aerojet.com).
• Astronautics Corporation of America (http://www.astronautics.com/).
• ATK Thiokol (http://www.atk.com/).
• Bigelow Aerospace (http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/) - Developing inflatable habitation modules.
• Boeing (http://www.boeing.com).
• EADS SPACE Transportation (http://www.space.eads.net/).
• Energia (http://www.energia.ru/english/index.html).
• Honeywell (http://www.honeywell.com/).
• LiftPort Group (http://www.liftport.com/) - "The Space Elevator Companies".
• Lockheed Martin (http://www.lockheedmartin.com).
• Malin Space Science Systems (http://www.msss.com/).
• Northrop Grumman (http://www.northropgrumman.com/).
• Orbital Sciences Corporation (http://www.orbital.com/).
• SpaceDev (http://www.spacedev.com/).
• SpaceX (http://www.spacex.com/).
• t/Space (http://www.transformspace.com/).
• United Technologies Corporation (http://www.utc.com/index.htm).

Ansari X Prize Participants

• ARCA (http://www.arcaspace.ro/) - Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association.
• Armadillo Aerospace (http://www.armadilloaerospace.com).
• AERA (http://www.aeraspace.com) - American Astronautics Corporation. (Unaccessable June 13, 2006)
• Bristol Spaceplanes, Ltd (http://www.bristolspaceplanes.com/).
• Canadian Arrow (http://www.canadianarrow.com/).
• The da Vinci Project (http://www.davinciproject.com/).
• HARC (http://www.harcspace.com) - High Altitude Research Corporation.
• iL Aerospace Technologies (http://www.ilat.net/). (Unaccessable June 13, 2006)
• Interorbital Systems (http://www.interorbital.com/).
• Kelly Space and Technology (http://www.kellyspace.com/).
• Lone Star Space Access Corporation (http://www.lonestarspace.com/).
• Micro-Space, Inc (http://www.micro-space.com/).
• PanAero, Inc (http://www.tour2space.com/).
• Pioneer Rocketplane, Inc (http://www.rocketplane.com/).
• Scaled Composites (http://www.scaled.com/index.html) - Winner and first fully private entity to put a person in space.
• Space Transportation Corporation (http://www.xprizenews.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=21) - This is a forum about them as their main site (http://www.space-transport.com/) seems to be non-existant. (Unaccessable June 13, 2006)
• Starchaser Industries (http://www.starchaser.co.uk/).
• TGV Rockets (http://www.tgv-rockets.com/).
• Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansari_X_Prize) - Not an aerospace company, but this includes an (supposedly) exhaustive list of all participants, including those without web sites.

Active Missions

Information on this page is out-of-date and needs to be updated.

• NASA Human Spaceflight (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html) - Includes the shuttle missions and the International Space Station.

Space-Based Observatories

• Chandra X-Ray Observatory (http://chandra.harvard.edu/).
• Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (http://cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov/) - Deorbited in 2000, but included here for completeness (Chandra, Compton, Hubble, and Spitzer are sometimes referred to as NASA's Great Observatories).
• Hubble Space Telescope (http://hubble.nasa.gov/index.php) - May not be active too much longer.
• Spitzer Space Telescope (http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/).
• James Webb Space Telescope (http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov/) - Set to launch August 2011; being infrared-optimized, it won't technically replace Hubble (which is optical) even though some people say it is.

Mars Missions

• Mars Global Surveyor (http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/).
• Mars Exploration Rover Mission (http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/) - The MERs Spirit and Opportunity.
• Mars Odyssey (http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/).
• Mars Express (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/).

Miscellaneous

• ACRIMSAT (http://acrim.jpl.nasa.gov/) - There's little information to be had on this, but there's no news that it was defunded or deorbited.
• Cassini-Huygens (http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm).
• Cosmos 1 (http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/) - Currently presumed, but not confirmed lost. The sails are set to automatically deploy on June 25, 2005.
• Deep Impact (http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/).
• Envisat (http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMWYN2VQUD_index_0_m.html).
• GALEX (http://www.galex.caltech.edu/) - Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
• GRACE (http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/) - Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment.
• Jason-1 (http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/jason-1.html) - Seems to not have had a second mission and is presently inactive.
• LANDSAT 7 (http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/).
• MESSENGER (http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/) - MErcury Surface, Space ENvrionment, GEochemistry, and Ranging.
• Nozomi (http://www.jaxa.jp/missions/projects/sat/exploration/nozomi/index_e.html) - Failed to enter Mars orbit in 2003; *might* still be operating as a solar observatory, but the lack of updates to the web site suggests otherwise.
• Rosetta (http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Rosetta/index.html).
• SOHO (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/) - The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
• Stardust (http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/).
• Voyager (http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/) - Even both of these are still operating.
• JIMO (http://prometheus.jpl.nasa.gov/) - In development; Jupiter/Jove(ian) Icy Moons Explorer, a.k.a. Prometheus 1; currently facing budget troubles, but Northrop Grumman has a contract to work on this until 2008. Another site (http://www.aerospaceguide.net/spacecraft/jimo.html).
• Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_space_mission) - Not a space mission, but a list of many unmanned space missions.

Space Stations

Factual

• Salyut (http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_manned_salyut.html) - Past; 7 in all; Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut).
• Skylab (http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/skylab/skylab.htm) - Past.
• Mir (http://www.russianspaceweb.com/mir.html) - Past.
• ISS (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html) - Present (under construction); NASA's web site.
• Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_station) - Not a space station, but this has a table with some info on manned stations.

Theoretical

• O'Neill Cylinder (http://www.l5news.org/oneillcylinder.htm) - Future; as envisioned by Gerard O'Neill and popularized in its original form by the Gundam anime series and in a more liberal form in Babylon 5; this site also has info on Bernal Spheres and Stanford Toruses (Tori?).
• Ring World - An astronautical megastructure, included here for completeness (no article on the general structure exists).
• Alderson Disc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderson_Disc) - Wikipedia article on the Alderson Disc, an astronautical megastructure.
• Dyson Sphere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere) - Wikipedia article on the Dyson Sphere, an astronautical megastructure.

Public Space Interest Societies

• American Astronomical Society (http://www.aas.org/) - Professional society.
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (http://www.aiaa.org/) - Professional society.
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific (http://www.astrosociety.org/).
• International Astronomical Union (http://www.iau.org/) - Professional society.
• L5 Society (http://www.l5news.org/index.html) - Merged with the NSS in 1987, but you can find their prior publications here.
• The Mars Society (http://www.marssociety.org/).
• National Space Society (http://www.nss.org/) - Focused on the US, but has international chapters.
• PERMANENT (http://www.permanent.com/index.htm) - Project to Employ the Resources of the Moon and Asteroids Near Earth in the Near Term.
• The Planetary Society (http://www.planetary.org/).
• Space Frontier Foundation (http://www.space-frontier.org/) - Focused on the US.
• Space Studies Institute (http://www.ssi.org/index.html).
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (http://www.seds.org/).