Introducing our Careers Officer, Portia Bowman. We have prepared a short interview so you know who you are talking to when you email us for careers advice! She is a recent graduate working at Thales Alenia Space –Italia as an Engineer in the Architecture and Ergonomics Department of the Space Read more…
A team of space engineers are collaborating in an interesting study to find solutions for methods to explore the Centauri star system. The Centauri star system is 4.3 lightyears away from Earth, and the challenge lies in sending a spacecraft which has to travel through the interstellar medium, survive the Read more…
Organised by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is the world’s largest astronautics/space engineering conference. As part of each IAC, there is a student paper competition (the E2.1 Student Conference) with prizes for best papers/presentation. Papers may be on any subject related to space sciences, Read more…
This Saturday, 11th April, the British Interplanetary Society and the University of Hertfordshire are jointly hosting a workshop titled “New Direction in Space Colonisation”, as part of the BIS’s ongoing Space Colonies Project. The purpose of this event is to explore the viability of space colonisation in the light of emerging technologies, the existing legal Read more…
