The Hackerspace Global Grid is aiming at building and establishing a distributed sensor and communication network. It was started in 2011 by Armin Bauer (
shackspace), Andreas Horning (
Constellation Platform), and Gregor Jehle (
shackspace) after a call for participation in the ''Hackers in Space'' programme at the
Chaos Communication Camp
The Chaos Communication Camp (also known as CCCamp) is an international meeting of hackers that takes place every four years, organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). So far all CCCamps have been held near Berlin, Germany.
The camp is an ...
, 2011 to create a global community-driven communication network.
[Albanesius, Chloe]
"Proposed Hacker Satellite System Would Fight Web Censorship"
''PC Mag
''PC Magazine'' (shortened as ''PCMag'') is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009. Publication of online editions started in late 1994 and have continued to the present d ...
'', 1 January 2012. Retrieved on 3 January 2012.
The long-term technical goal is to establish a system for tracking and communicating with
amateur satellite
An amateur radio satellite is an artificial satellite built and used by amateur radio operators. It forms part of the Amateur-satellite service. These satellites use amateur radio frequency allocations to facilitate communication between amat ...
s in
near earth orbit, but the system is kept open for a variety of sensors, i.e. earthquake detection, radiation or weather data. Currently, the project is in a state where it is possible to receive data from commercial aeroplanes via
ADS-B.
[Hackerspace Global Gri]
"shackspace wiki: Hackerspace Global Grid"
Retrieved on 3 January 2012.
A stated but misinterpreted
[HGG:faq]
What's that thing about "uncensorable internet"
aim of the project is to produce a communication system, 'free from
Internet censorship
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org) but exceptionally may extend to all Inte ...
'.
See also
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Deep Space Network
The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) is a worldwide Telecommunications network, network of American spacecraft communication ground segment facilities, located in the United States (California), Spain (Madrid), and Australia (Canberra), that suppo ...
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Hacklab
A hackerspace (also referred to as a hacklab, hackspace, or makerspace) is a community-operated, often "not for profit" ( 501(c)(3) in the United States), workspace where people with common interests, such as computers, machining, technology, ...
References
External links
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{{Hackerspace
Global Grid
Amateur radio satellites
Communications satellites in low Earth orbit