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Ask HN: Hobby “space” projects for developers? Or something like that?
Hello, I have a Master in Computer Science and I almost 15 years of experience working in the private sector, developing API, architectures designs, in large companies, startups, etc. I am currently working as a "CTO" (between quotes) in a new startup, defining scopes, architectures, doing dev work, also devops, etc.
However, I noticed I enjoy everything space related: books, films, tv shows. And I thought it would be nice to work on a place like that (although the dream is to work a place like NASA, I know it is impossible). Anyway, I wonder if there are any amateur projects to do as a hobbyst, space related. I dont know if you can rent a satelite and do stuff (a là DigitalOcean), or something like that.
Does anyone has any resource on how to start doing some projects that could land in a career in space-related?
Thanks!
- schappim 6y agoExodus Orbitals[1] say they will rent one to you. https://www.exodusorbitals.com/ https://www.exodusorbitals.com/
- msadowski 6y agoNot strictly what you are looking for but I can recommend the Orbital Index Newsletter (https://orbitalindex.com/ https://orbitalindex.com/). You might find some interesting projects in their awesome space repo: https://github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space https://github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space
- sigmaprimus 6y agoHow about AMSAT? https://www.amsat.org https://www.amsat.org Plus you get to have all the fun of learning and getting your HAM! (73 VE7XML)
- ivars 6y agoI know nothing about the space related career, but have you checked out AstroPy tutorials? They seem pretty nice to wet your appetite and maybe spring up some ideas. http://learn.astropy.org/ http://learn.astropy.org/
- 4x5-Guy 6y agoYou could always start doing high powered rocketry. Some of the current rocket companies started that way. You could also develop a payload and test it as well.