International Space Station – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:22:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Welcome home! An original Astro Pi computer back from space is now on display at the Science Museum https://noise.getoto.net/2023/06/23/welcome-home-an-original-astro-pi-computer-back-from-space-is-now-on-display-at-the-science-museum/ Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:22:45 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=84239 After seven successful years on the International Space Station, 250 vertical miles above our planet, the original two Astro Pi computers that we sent to the ISS to help young people run their code in space have been returned to Earth. From today, one of these Astro Pi computers will be displayed in the Science…

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]]> Young people designed 15,000 images for astronauts in Astro Pi Mission Zero 2022/23 https://noise.getoto.net/2023/06/15/young-people-designed-15000-images-for-astronauts-in-astro-pi-mission-zero-2022-23/ Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:55:04 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=84182 In the Columbus module of the International Space Station (ISS), there are two Astro Pi computers called Marie Curie and Nikola Tesla. These computers run the programs young people create as part of the annual European Astro Pi Challenge. For this year’s Astro Pi Mission Zero, young people sent us over 15,000 programs to show…

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]]> 24850 young people’s programs ran in space for Astro Pi 2022/23 https://noise.getoto.net/2023/05/30/24850-young-peoples-programs-ran-in-space-for-astro-pi-2022-23/ Tue, 30 May 2023 08:30:51 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=83974 Over 15,000 teams of young people from across Europe had their computer programs run on board the International Space Station (ISS) this month as part of this year’s European Astro Pi Challenge. Astro Pi is run in collaboration by us and ESA Education, and offers two ways to get involved: Mission Zero and Mission Space…

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]]> Mission Space Lab 2022-23 – 294 teams achieved Flight Status https://noise.getoto.net/2023/04/20/mission-space-lab-2022-23-294-teams-achieved-flight-status/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 09:59:32 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=83731 In brief We are excited to share that 294 teams of young people participating in this year’s Astro Pi Mission Space Lab achieved Flight Status: their programs will run on the Astro Pis installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in April. Mission Space Lab is part of the European Astro Pi Challenge, an ESA…

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]]> 768 teams of young people have entered Astro Pi Mission Space Lab 2022/23 https://noise.getoto.net/2022/11/30/768-teams-of-young-people-have-entered-astro-pi-mission-space-lab-2022-23/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:19:19 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=82299 This year, 768 teams made up of 3086 young people from 23 countries sent us their ideas for experiments to run on board the International Space Station (ISS) for Astro Pi Mission Space Lab. Mission Space Lab is part of the European Astro Pi Challenge, an ESA Education programme run in collaboration with us at…

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]]> Meet team behind the mini Raspberry Pi–powered ISS https://noise.getoto.net/2021/01/05/meet-team-behind-the-mini-raspberry-pi-powered-iss/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 10:19:18 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=66315 Quite possibly the coolest thing we saw Raspberry Pi powering this year was ISS Mimic, a mini version of the International Space Station (ISS). We wanted to learn more about the brains that dreamt up ISS Mimic, which uses data from the ISS to mirror exactly what the real thing is doing in orbit. The…

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]]> Q&A with NASA engineers behind Raspberry Pi–powered ISS Mimic https://noise.getoto.net/2020/11/17/qa-with-nasa-engineers-behind-raspberry-pi-powered-iss-mimic/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:49:03 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=65502 Did you see the coolest International Space Station (ISS) on Earth on the blog last week? ISS Mimic is powered by Raspberry Pi, mirrors exactly what the real ISS is doing in orbit, and was built by NASA engineers to make the ISS feel more real for Earth-bound STEAM enthusiasts. The team launched ISS Mimic…

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]]> ISS Mimic: A Raspberry Pi-powered International Space Station model that syncs with the real thing https://noise.getoto.net/2020/11/11/iss-mimic-a-raspberry-pi-powered-international-space-station-model-that-syncs-with-the-real-thing/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:57:38 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=65268 A group of us NASA engineers work on the International Space Station (ISS) for our day-jobs but craved something more tangible than computer models and data curves to share with the world. So, in our free time, we built ISS Mimic. It’s still in the works, but we are publishing now to celebrate 20 years…

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