I met Jennifer on a quiet Friday morning at Birkbeck College, London. She had just submitted her PhD Thesis few days earlier, and she kindly agreed to talk to us about her project and her career. When we met, she enthusiastically started describing her PhD project: “ It took me Read more…
Project Dragonfly was initiated by I4IS (Initiative for Interstellar Studies) to involve students in interstellar studies. This project aimed at identifying innovative mission architectures that are feasible to reach Alpha Centauri system within a Century. On the 3rd July 2015, four qualified teams including team CranSEDS (Students from Cranfield University-UK, Read more…
Have you ever wanted to take individual degree courses in Europe, giving you the chance to both justify trips to the continent, and also study a wide variety of courses that aren’t offered at home, ranging from “Intelligent Technology” to “Mobile Games and Entertainment”. It’s definitely not a chance to Read more…
UKSEDS is looking for an Assistant Careers Officer to help source jobs and opportunities relevant to our membership to be advertised via LiftOff (Careers Newsletter) and our website. There could be the opportunity to liaise directly with relevant people in the space industry. You will need to have some awareness 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…
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 Read more…