Two one-day Reverse Engineering Workshops are to be held at the British Interplanetary Society, 27/29 South Lambeth Road, London, SW8 1SZ Friday 21st November 2014: ADVANCED SPACECRAFT PROPULSION Friday 12th December 2014: DEEP SPACECRAFT DESIGN To book a place visit: deepspacecraftdesign.com or email: [email protected] Attendees will receive: Certificate of participation Printed course notes Read more…
Hey KSP fans, This here is the announcement for the second KSP competition we’re running over July and August. Following the last challenge success we have come up with another awesome Kerbal competition for our members to get involved in.This month’s competition is called ‘The Science Run’. Fig 1. Last Read more…
Aviation fans are getting excited as Farnborough International Airshow started earlier this week. The Airshow is one of the biggest air spectacles in the world. It attracts big-name aviation and technology companies and thousands of enthusiasts. UKSEDS will be present at a stall over the weekend, so why not pay us a Read more…
The first UKSEDS Kerbal Space Program Competition has now come to an end. [Warning Easter Egg Spoilers are listed in this article, don’t read if you haven’t attempted this challenge or want to find them on your own] The Scavenger Hunt Challenge required entrants to visit as many of the Read more…
UKSEDS participated in the Big Bang Fairs and school festival. As a part of outreach programme, our stand for these events consists for space activities such as identifying meteorites from the earth rocks, display and description of our model rocket and telescope, space game called Space Invaders played using the Read more…
UKSEDS volunteers are needed to help our friends ‘I4IS’ at Loncon3 run their exhibition ‘The Interstellar Space’ Your space expertise is needed to help I4IS deliver their message ‘Knowledge to the Stars’ to the 7,000 plus people at Worldcon – and I4IS experts will be there to back you up. As Read more…
Interested in developing cubesats? Want to see how they are made? Following on from the success of the 2013 event, Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and AMSAT-UK invite CubeSat developers to bring their equipment to a ‘Bring Your Own Board’ (BYOB) workshop. Confirmed attendees include: ISIS (bring their new On Board Read more…
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 Read more…
Recording the Past – Debating the Present – Inspiring the Future The British Interplanetary Society Space History Conference at Charterhouse will have a varied programme reflecting on Space Exploration, Launcher technology, Space Science, the Development of Commercial Space-based technology, Space Policy and Space-based Astronomy. This is a chance to listen Read more…
Strap on your boosters and tape up those fuel injection lines because Kerbal Space Program is finally coming to UKSEDS! This article explains the details behind the very first UKSEDS Kerbal Space Program competition. Mission summary: For the first instalment of our Kerbal Competitions, contenders will need to get to the Mun Read more…