A group of amateur yet dedicated space fans are attempting to bring the successful unconference tradition of SpaceUp to Europe in September this year. It will be held during the weekend of 22 & 23 September 2012 at the Cosmodrome in Genk, Belgium. If you are less familiar with SpaceUp or unconferences in general, more details can […]
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On 21st July we had a fun time at Sir Patrick Moore’s residence in Selsey, West Sussex with the British Interplanetary Society. The weather was very warm for us. We enjoyed the sunshine and the company of Sir Patrick.
Would you like to be paid to write software for a space project this summer? The ESA SOCIS programme will let you do just that. This is the second year that the programme has been run and it aims to: Raise the awareness of open source projects related to space within the open source programming […]
At the Farnborough International Airshow Future’s Day UKSEDS members were amazed to catch not just one astronaut but two together. Both British ESA astronaut, Tim Peake and Italian ESA astronaut, Paolo Nespoli were engaging in activities in the show’s Space Zone with young children. Both astronauts were launching the latest Mission X, a 6-week international […]
A special thanks to all our volunteers throughout Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Farnborough International AirShow. It was a tiring but fun weekend. Many thanks for all your help. Best wishes, Ryan Laird, Secretary On behalf of the UKSEDS Committee P.S. More photos and videos soon, but here’s a treat.
UKSEDS members attended the RAeS 3rd European Space Tourism Conference on 19th June 2012. The day was jam-packed full of space tourism company representatives from XCOR Aerospace, Space Adventures, Excalibur Almaz Limited and Virgin Galactic, outlining the future potential of this lucrative upcoming industry. Speakers from Spaceports Curacao, Sweden and America described the ground segment […]
The UK Space Science Heritage project is intended to collect and preserve the memories of some of the most extraordinary scientists, engineers and other key figures involved in the early UK space programmes through an Oral History project utilising video and sound recording. It is intended to archive the raw footage for future researchers; edited […]
The Space Generation Advisory Council is partnering with the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC=”Isaac”) for a SGAC Search Campaign, called “Find An Asteroid”. Thanks to some enthusiastic UKSEDS members, UKSEDS has been selected by SGAC to be one of 15 teams from around the world to participate in this campaign. Between 14th August to 18th […]
Discover Magazine are running a very neat competition for Arduino-based satellites. See the link for contest guidelines, here .
UKSEDS are pleased to announce the results of the UK student paper selection for the 2012 International Astronautical Congress in Naples in October. The selection took place at the British Interplanetary Society in London last Thursday, 31 May. The winners are: –Undergraduate– Alessandro Grasso – University of Bristol Feasibility Study of an Ultra-Low Altitude Hyperspectral […]
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