Details

Last Funding Type

Grant

Last Funding Money Raised

$224.85K

Industries

Digital Media,Social Media,Social Network

Founded date

Dec 25, 2003

Number Of Employee

1 - 10

Operating Status

Active

Since 2003, Slooh makes astronomy incredibly easy, engaging and affordable for anyone with a desire to see outer space for themselves. Slooh connects telescopes to the Internet for access by the broader public, and creates free, advertising supported programs featuring the view through our live telescopes. We recently signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA in March 2014 to "Bring the Universe to Everyone and Help Protect Earth, Too” which validates our market leading position.

Slooh’s automated observatories develop celestial images in real-time for broadcast to the Internet. Slooh’s technology is protected by Patent No.: US 7,194,146 B2 which was awarded in 2006. Slooh members have taken over 2.5m photos/140,000 FITS of over 40,000 celestial objects, participated in numerous discoveries with leading astronomical institutions and made over 2,000 submissions to the Minor Planet Center.

Our flagship observatories are situated on Mt. Teide, in partnership with the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), and in Chile, in partnership with the Catholic University. Slooh has also broadcast live celestial events from partner observatories in Arizona, Japan, Hawaii, Cypress, Dubai, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Norway. Slooh’s live broadcasts of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), comets, transits, eclipses, solar activity etc. feature narration by astronomy experts Will Gater and Bob Berman, and are syndicated to media outlets worldwide, including TIME, National Geographic, Wired, NBC, and many more.