What Alternative Space News Sources Including Blogs, Social Networking Sites do you Use?

By Marc Boucher on January 1, 2009 4:42 PM | Comments

There are many good space news sources available, they include SpaceRef, Space.com, NASA Watch, The Space Review, Spaceflight Now etc. I'm compiling a list of all space news sources and assigning them an authority ranking based on several criteria including traffic, update frequency, citations etc. and your input on the following question would be very valuable.

My question for the community is what alternative or non-mainstream sources do you find useful? Post a comment or email me (marc.boucher < AT > hyperix.com) with your top sources and alternatives.

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  • You make a good point and it is an issue we're working on.



    >One issue I do see in calculating an “authority ranking” is distinguishing between quantity of traffic and quality of traffic. A niche >space site may get far less traffic than a mainstream media site, but the niche site may have a far larger fraction of “influential” >readers than a mainstream site - something that, at first glance, would be difficult to determine. An interesting challenge!

  • Interesting idea. Since I run Spacetoday.net I have a pretty omnivorous space media diet, both mainstream (however that may be defined) and not. In addition to the sites above I would recommend these sites:



    NASASpaceFlight.com

    Newscientistspace.com

    RLV and Space Transport News (hobbyspace.com)

    Universe Today

    AviationNow.com

    SkyandTelescope.com/news



    This excludes "mainstream" media that cover space well (such as Florida Today, Houston Chronicle, Orlando Sentinel, etc.); these publications all now have space-focused blogs as well (The Flame Trench, Deepspace, The Write Stuff).



    One issue I do see in calculating an "authority ranking" is distinguishing between quantity of traffic and quality of traffic. A niche space site may get far less traffic than a mainstream media site, but the niche site may have a far larger fraction of "influential" readers than a mainstream site - something that, at first glance, would be difficult to determine. An interesting challenge!

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