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Robot Controller Board Survey

Prototype robot controller board. Credit: Aron Kidsi

A small and friendly team of robotics engineers at the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) are designing a cool new product for robotics and other applications like home automation. They are working on a generalised controller board with a lot of features integrated into a very small package. The board has all the functionality to drive a […]

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Feature Article: High interest rates decouple Astronauts from their wallets!

The International Space Station on 23 May 2010 as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-132. Credit: NASA

It is not the sort of dilemma that one expects when you’re 250 miles above the Earth travelling over 17,000 miles per hour in a hailstorm of cosmic radiation, but the inescapable truth is that our bold astronauts are facing quite the financial pickle. In today’s complex financial age where every Earthling must manage an […]

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Join the Worldwide GLOBE at Night 2014 Campaign!

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You are invited to participate in an international astronomy programme called GLOBE at Night. You can join volunteers from 115 countries around the world by measuring light pollution effects in your area. E-mail: [email protected] if you are interested in joining the UKSEDS team. GLOBE at Night is free and easy for you, your friends and […]

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Join the UKSEDS Asteroid Chasers in an asteroid search campaign!

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You are invited to join the UKSEDS Asteroid Chasers team in its second year of running to participate in the International Astronomical Search Collaboration’s (IASC) Asteroid search campaign, running from between March 24th and April 28th. You will be participating in the discovery of new Main Belt asteroids and near-Earth objects, similar to asteroid 2012 DA14 that passed by us in […]

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UKSEDS XRT-Station project wins funding

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The UKSEDS National XRT-Station Project has recently took another step towards completion after being awarded £2,500 worth of funding from the CATALYST Seed fund for academic public engagement. The eXeter Radio Telescope Station aims to build a radio telescope for use by UKSEDS members for weighing the Galaxy through observations of 21cm line emission from […]

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Join the Globe at Night Campaign!

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The Globe at Night programme is an international citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of light pollution by inviting citizen scientists to measure their night-sky brightness and submit their observations from a computer or smart phone. The programme is coordinated by Dr. Connie Walker from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). Light pollution threatens not […]

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Payload Opportunity On-board the DARE rocket to 50km!

Full scale motor test of the Stratos II rocket, generating 10kN of thrust.

Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE) is a student organisation linked to the TU Delft in the Netherlands that has existed for a little over ten years now. They design, develop, build and launch their own rockets with the goal to get students more interested in rocket science. Over the years they have worked on a […]

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SGAC’s “Find An Asteroid” campaign — be part of the UKSEDS team!

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SGAC is again partnering with the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC=”Isaac”) for a SGAC Search Campaign, called “Find An Asteroid”. Up to 15 teams formed by SGAC members (aged 18-35) will be selected to participate in this campaign. The Search Campaign itself will last for five weeks from 14 August – 18 September, 2013. Typically […]

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Find an Asteroid Campaign Success

The 10th March to the 21st April saw UKSEDS’ continued involvement with the Pan-STARRS Asteroid Search campaign. Overall the campaign was a great success with a record 1219 preliminary asteroid discoveries and 274 provisional discoveries being made by fifty-six teams all across the globe. Our own members, Chris Lavis, Owen Roberts and Thomas Goodfellow were […]

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Join UKSEDS Rocketry!

4-H model rockets at the Kansas State Fair 2007. Photo by Jessie Zerger

Are you interested in learning rocketry? This year UKSEDS’ new committee are introducing a set of new projects aimed at teaching our members all the necessary skills to build and launch rockets! From the smallest model rockets up to the high power experimental engines, UKSEDS wants to see our members getting involved in this highly […]

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Join the UKSEDS Asteroid Chasers team!

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You are invited to join the UKSEDS Asteroid Chasers team in its second year of running to participate in the International Astronomical Search Collaboration’s (IASC) bi-annual Pan-STARRS Asteroid search campaign, running from between March 10th and April 14th. You will be participating in the discovery of new Main Belt asteroids and near-Earth objects, similar to asteroid 2012 DA14 that past us […]

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