Our mission
SPARK was first intended to be a website where people who love space could join together and read about big questions and theories that cost many people — including me and my dad — sleepless nights and long hours of reading and research. Here we'll also keep simulations and live rocket sounds, high quality audio of real rockets and spacecraft in space.
While building this website, my dad and I are working separately on a real research project — one we plan to send to space agencies around the world, like NASA, ISRO, and Roscosmos. Even if none of them accept it, we'll keep building it and see it through anyway. So by the end of my high school years, we want two things to exist: my first real research project, and a physical device we built with our own hands.
My first research goal is about Jupiter — it's my favorite planet.
— Saanvi, founder
Latest updates
What SPARK is learning and building — newest first.
9 Oct 2026 — Live sounds and a new look
You can now listen to the real solar wind, live, and read how a comet "sings." New pages cover space agencies around the world, a glossary with analogies, and Saanvi's roadmap to becoming an astrophysicist.
Late Aug 2026 — SPARKcom.net goes live
SPARK Communications launched on the internet. First research areas: wormholes and time travel, aliens and SETI, and Jupiter — Saanvi's first research goal.
Aug 2026 — Threshold Station
Saanvi's concept for a settlement near a theoretical wormhole, doubling as a deep-space listening post aimed at a real candidate "superhabitable" planet.
Questions, ideas, or corrections from scientists and teachers are very welcome — write to us.
Researches
Everything SPARK is actively researching, in one place:
Aliens, SETI & exoplanets
Is there life elsewhere, how would we recognize it, and could intelligent civilizations ever communicate across the distances involved?
Jupiter — our first research project
Saanvi's first real research goal, and the planet SPARK is starting with, before it becomes a physical device.
Simulators: What ifs
Space is full of situations you'd never survive in real life — so we ask the questions here instead.
What if you fell outside the space station without a suit?
You wouldn't explode. You'd have about 10–15 seconds of consciousness as oxygen leaves your blood, and the saliva on your tongue would boil — not from heat, but because liquids can't stay liquid in a vacuum. If crewmates pulled you back inside within about a minute, you'd likely survive. It happened for real in a 1966 vacuum-chamber accident.
What if you lit a torch in space?
It works fine — no air needed for an LED or a battery. But with nothing nearby to light up, your photo comes out pure black. The light itself never stops, though: it travels forever until it hits something, or nothing at all.
What if you struck a match in space?
The match head has its own built-in oxidizer, so it flashes and burns out in a second — but the wooden stick, which needs real air, never catches. A tiny solid-rocket-motor moment, not a campfire.
More what-ifs coming soon — got one? Ask us.
Sounds: live radio voices of space
Space is silent — sound can't travel through nothing. But space is full of radio waves and magnetic ripples that become sound with the right ears. Our favorites:
Hear meteors fall, live · A comet that sings (Rosetta, 2014) · Black holes turned into sound
Why does a comet "sing"?
Comet 67P was leaking gas as the Sun warmed it. Sunlight turned that gas into charged particles, like a mist of tiny magnets streaming past the comet's magnetic field — the way wind makes a flag flutter. The flutter is a real magnetic rhythm, about 40–50 beats per thousand seconds… far too slow to hear. Scientists sped it up so our ears could join in. That trick is called sonification.
Listen to the solar wind — live
Right now, a spacecraft about 1.5 million km from Earth is measuring the stream of particles flowing out of the Sun. Press the button: faster wind = higher pitch, thicker wind = louder.
Data: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, updated every minute. Needs an internet connection and sound on. If it can't reach the data, it will tell you.
Research: Aliens, SETI & exoplanets
Is there life elsewhere?
Nobody knows — but the odds look interesting. Roughly 1 in 5 Sun-like stars may host an Earth-sized planet in its habitable zone. Across the galaxy, that's billions of candidates. Scientists use the Drake equation to estimate how many communicating civilizations might exist — its honest answer today ranges from "we're alone" to "millions."
How would we recognize it?
Two ways: reading a distant planet's atmosphere for gases like oxygen that shouldn't be there without life, or listening for an artificial radio signal — narrow, patterned, unlike anything nature makes. That's SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), running since 1960. In 1977 a telescope caught the famous "Wow! signal" — 72 seconds, strong, never repeated, still unexplained.
Could intelligent civilizations communicate?
Radio waves already can — they travel at light speed, the universe's speed limit, no spaceship required. The catch is patience: a signal to a star 100 light-years away takes 100 years to arrive and 100 more for a reply. Listening is still the fastest, cheapest way to search.
Space agencies around the world
The search for life is a team sport — every big discovery has a flag on it, and usually several. Highlights from each:
NASA
Apollo, Voyager, Mars rovers, Hubble, and the James Webb Space Telescope (built with ESA and Canada). Its Kepler and TESS telescopes found thousands of planets.
ESA
Rosetta — the "singing comet" mission that landed a probe on a comet. Gaia mapped nearly 2 billion stars. JUICE is heading to Jupiter's icy moons.
ISRO
Mangalyaan reached Mars orbit on its first try (2014). Chandrayaan-3 landed near the Moon's south pole (2023). Aditya-L1 studies the Sun.
Roscosmos
Sputnik, the first satellite (1957). Yuri Gagarin, first human in space (1961). Venera probes landed on Venus. Soyuz still carries astronauts.
JAXA
Hayabusa2 brought back samples from asteroid Ryugu (2020). SLIM made a pinpoint Moon landing (2024).
CNSA
Chang'e-4 made the first soft landing on the Moon's far side (2019). Chang'e-6 brought back far-side samples (2024). Tianwen-1 put a rover on Mars.
Highlights only — many other countries have agencies too, and missions keep launching.
Space words, explained with analogies
Path to astrophysicist
Saanvi's plan, from grade 8 to a PhD — and a map for any student with the same dream.
NOW · GRADES 8–9
- Solid maths: algebra, geometry, and a first taste of trigonometry.
- Learn Python — plot data, make sounds, build small projects.
- Read and watch widely: astronomy basics, relativity, exoplanets.
- Keep building SPARK: a finished project beats ten half-ideas.
GRADES 10–12
- Calculus, plus physics: mechanics, electricity and magnetism, waves, heat.
- Astronomy olympiads (in India, the pathway starts with NSEA and INAO).
- Data skills: NumPy, Matplotlib, and Astropy on real telescope data.
- Citizen science: Zooniverse's planet hunting, NASA's Radio JOVE for Jupiter's radio storms.
- One real research project, written up properly.
UNDERGRADUATE
- Physics or astrophysics (or computer science + physics — great for data-heavy astronomy).
- Linear algebra, differential equations, quantum mechanics, general relativity.
- Summer research with a professor — the single most valuable thing you can do.
PHD
- Pick a specialty: exoplanets, astrobiology, SETI, black holes, cosmology…
- Use real telescope time and data, publish papers, join a mission team.
Interesting facts about our planets
Jupiter blasts out radio storms powerful enough for backyard antennas to hear, driven by its moon Io moving through Jupiter's magnetic field.
More planet facts coming as we research each one — ask us which planet to cover next!
Ask us anything about space
Got a space question? Send it in — Saanvi reads every one and answers, usually within a week or two.
Email us your question →murtisaanvi@gmail.com
About us
SPARK Communications is a space program founded by Saanvi — grade 8, future alien-hunter. Teaching myself space science and coding, and everything I decode, I explain here in plain words, so anyone can understand it.
Our mission is in our name: Space Program for Alien Research & Knowledge. One day I'll build a device and listen for a signal from another civilization. This website is step one.
The universe has been broadcasting for 13.8 billion years. SPARK is here to finally listen.
Founder: Saanvi Murti
Mission log
July 2026 — SPARK Communications is founded. We bought SPARKcom.net, learned meteors, comets and asteroids, and built the Solar Wind Radio. Mission begins.
August 2026 — Saanvi designed SPARK's full content plan and site structure by hand, and Threshold Station (our wormhole settlement concept) took shape.
Late August 2026 — SPARKcom.net went live on the internet, with a black hole on the front page.
October 2026 — Big upgrade: a live solar-wind sound you can listen to, a world space-agencies page, a glossary of space words with analogies, and a roadmap to becoming an astrophysicist.
Coming up — The Orionid meteor shower in late October: watch the sky and listen to it. Then Jupiter's radio season this winter — building a backyard radio antenna to hear its storms, with Jupiter at its brightest in February 2027.