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. GLOBE at Night is free, and it’s easy for you, your friends and family to participate. For complete information, check out their website […]
Lectures on CubeSat Technology and Applications
CubeSat Technology and Applications that will be held at von Karman Institute (Brussels, Belgium) on 29 Jan – 1 Feb 2013. Thanks to the sponsors of the von Karman Institute, the lectures will be provided at greatly reduced prices, down to 250 Euros for students instead of an original price of 1100 Euros. There will […]
Institute for Interstellar Studies – PRINCIPIUM
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Institute for Interstellar Studies’ (I4IS) official newsletter, PRINCIPIUM. The newsletter can be downloaded here: http://www.interstellarindex.com/2012/12/04/principium-issue-1-december-2012/ There is also a link to a page on the BIS Website mentioning the potential Alpha Centauri Prize and our possible involvement. http://www.bis-space.com/what-we-do/projects/alpha-centauri-prize. Our Vice Chair will be discussing the prize with I4IS […]
Globe at Night 2013 Campaign
You are invited to participate in an international astronomy programme called GLOBE at Night. You can join students from 115 countries around the world by measuring light pollution effects in your area. UKSEDS is planning on getting a team together for the February campaign. E-mail: [email protected] if you are interested to join our team. GLOBE […]
UK Space Science Heritage Project Consultation
Thank you to our all our delegates for their interest in the UK Space Science Heritage Project during the UKSEDS workshop. It was interesting to hear from a number of members of the audience what you thought. It is really important that for us to move forward on this that we get YOUR feedback/opinions on the project and whether […]
DARE Stratos II Sounding Rocket: UKSEDS Payload Opportunity
UKSEDS have been corresponding with our international colleagues and have had recent contact with a Dutch group called DARE. Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE) are 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 […]
Call for Papers for the 2nd IAA Conference on University Satellites Missions and Cubesat Winter Workshop
The 2nd IAA Conference on University Satellites Missions and Cubesat Winter Workshop is to be held in Roma (Italy), from 3rd-9th February 2013 , under the main sponsorship of IAA, GAUSS Srl, ESA, ASI, Italian Air Force, Sapienza University of Roma, Morehead State University (Kentucky), Von Karman Institute, FILAS, BCC Roma. The Conference has the goal to provide the […]
Pan-STARRS Asteroid Search Campaign
After a successful SGAC Asteroid Search Campaign, UKSEDS are delighted to announce our participation in the Pan-STARRS Asteroid Search Campaign from November 12th, the following lunar cycle. The campaign will continue until December 17th. Even if you are unable to analyse some of the image sets, that is not a problem. Do not let missing some […]
UK Space Science Heritage project – volunteers required!
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 […]
UKSEDS ‘Find An Asteroid’ team selected
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 […]
“Find An Asteroid” — join the UKSEDS team!
SGAC is partnering with the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC=”Isaac”) for a SGAC Search Campaign, called “Find An Asteroid”. Between 14 August to 18 September, 2012, up to 15 teams formed by SGAC members will be selected to participate in this campaign. UKSEDS are planning on forming a team. If you want to discover an asteroid, […]