Here are some sites for space nuts…
- Check out the New Zealand Spaceflight Association (NZSA) site for current space news and events. The low $50 annual subscription gives you access to regular meetings and their two-monthly magazine ‘Liftoff’.
- A team of New Zealand radio amateurs are constructing KiwiSAT, a New Zealand designed and built orbiting satellite which they aim to launch within a few years. KiwiSAT will include a scientific research package and enable global amateur radio communications. Donations are accepted to help with the extensive costs of this exciting project.
- Rocket Lab is based in Auckland and is launching suborbital research and commercial payloads into space from 2008. The A-tea series of rocket is designed to carry 25 to 70 kg to an altitude of 150 to 250 km.
- Stonehenge Aotearoa is located in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand, just north of Wellington, and is built on the same scale as the original Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, in England. This isn’t simply a Stonehenge replica, though; it’s been specifically designed as a practical open-sky observatory for the Southern Hemisphere and is used to teach the calendars of time and seasons. It combines modern scientific knowledge with ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Celtic, Polynesian and Maori starlore.
- Have you seen some strange objects in the sky? Do you have missing time? Take a fascinating look into the world of UFO’s at UFOCUS NZ, a UFO research, support and resource network.
- Stepping into the future, the Star Wars New Zealand (SWNZ) site looks to encourage Star Wars related hobbies and provide fan information for Kiwi Trekkies. New Zealand also finds itself with a mention in Memory Alpha, the Star Trek encyclopedia.
Alrighty, I’m outta time – beam me up!
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