Besides, did you know that space is only 100km above the Earth? So if you could drive your car upwards, you could be in space in less than an hour. There is of course so much else to know about our amazing space and why entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are exploring space tourism!
At Garage48 SpaceTech 2016 and ActInSpace hackathons the teams will be building prototypes of space software and hardware technologies. To get the participants all warmed up, we first listed the TOP 10 reasons why SpaceTech is so cool and relevant to our lives:
1.
Big asteroid is going to hit us eventually, because thats
what they do - how can we outsmart asteroids?
2.
Satellite-TV and partly the Internet depends on telecom
satellites
3.
Military intelligence depends on spy satellites
Cosmo SkyMed
4.
Weather forecasting depends on weather satellites
5. Knowing the location depends on navigation satellites
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/gps/en/
6. Planetary defence against asteroids and comets
Credit: ESA - P.Carril
7. Atmosphere blocks gamma, X-ray, UV, most of infrared and long-wave radio
8.
In the futuure there will be commercial space tourism,
synergy with other planets
Copyright: Scott Bedford
9. To effectively monitor our earthly environment
10. SpaceTech is loved by loads of smart people
http://firebroadside.blogspot.com.ee/2014/06/dragon-v2.html
Want to join the space revolution? Register for Garage48 SpaceTech 2016 hackathon on May 27-29, 2016 in Tartu at http://garage48.org/events/spacetech
Join also the pre-event ActInSpace Estonia hackathon here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1733290476887427/