Join our Outreach team!!! With the start of the new academic year, we have loads of Outreach events planned for our members in October 2013! Take a look our outreach webpage for past outreach and get involved in the following planned: An outreach event with the Knowledge Observatory at the North West Astronomy Festival 2013 […]
On the 14th of July, members of Surrey EARS (Electronics and Amateur Radio Society) hosted a moon bounce on the University of Surrey campus. A moon bounce is a radio communications method that involves transmitting a signal through an antenna pointed towards the moon, and then attempting to then receive that signal when it is reflected […]
“The General Assembly declares 4 to 10 October World Space Week to celebrate each year at the international level the contributions of space science and technology to the betterment of the human condition” UN General Assembly resolution, 6 December 1999 Register your event! UKSEDS are working with the British Interplanetary Society who are UK National Coordinators […]
UKSEDS is looking for volunteers to act as mentors for school student teams taking part in the UK CanSat competition, run by ESERO-UK. A CanSat is a simulation of a real satellite, integrated within the volume and shape of a soft drink can. The challenge for the school students is to fit all major subsystems […]
Seven UK participants have been awarded scholarships by the UK Space Agency ISU (International Space University) Scholarship Scheme to attend the International Space University Space Studies Programme (SSP). The programme moves to a different location each year and this year is being held at ISU’s Central Campus in Strasbourg, France. The UK Space Agency supports a […]
UKSEDS members were pleased to attend a tour of Surrey Satellites Technology Ltd (SSTL). Members of UKSEDS met at the site in Guildford, Surrey on 26th April. Unfortunately we were not permitted to take photos inside the buildings themselves. We were given an overview of the company, along with SSTL’s missions – those launched, those and those currently in development […]
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 […]
Merlin Barschke, a CranSEDS member who graduated from Cranfield in 2011 and is currently working as Project Manager for two nanosatellites at TU Berlin, needs your support! “We are planning to prepare a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Space Technology. The course will cover the basics of space technology ranging from satellites to space […]
Last Sunday, members of Imperial College Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (ICSEDS) travelled to Elsworth, Cambridgeshire, for their first launch trip. The aim was to launch two high altitude balloons (HABs) and several model rockets built over the course of the year. The two HABs were the culmination of ICSEDS’s very own […]
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 […]
Over the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd of March a team of ICSEDS members joined other volunteers and professionals at the UK Space Design Competition (UKSDC) finals at Imperial College London. The UKSDC is a weekend residential competition open to all year 10 – 13 students in the UK. The UK finals are held […]
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