50 years after his death defying first spacewalk, Alexei Leonov is coming to London to speak at a reception hosted by Stamus and the British Interplanetary Society at the Imperial College, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Lecture Theatre G16, South Kensington, London at 6:30pm on Thursday 21st May 2015. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity […]
The Sir Arthur Clarke Awards 2015
Launched at the UKSEDS National Student Space Conference 2015 (NSSC2015), nominations for the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards are now open. The Sir Arthur Clarke Awards which recognise and reward individuals and teams for notable or outstanding achievements in, or contributions to, all space activities, have been presented annually since 2005. The British Interplanetary Society, organiser of the […]
IAC2014 UK Student Paper Winners Selected
Organised by the International Astronautical Federation (of which the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) was a founding member in 1951), the annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is the world’s largest astronautics/space engineering conference. IAC2014 will take place in Toronto, Canada in October. As part of each IAC, there is a student competition with prizes for the best papers […]
IAC UK Student Competition Deadline Fast Approaching
Launched at the UKSEDS National Student Space Conference 2014 (NSSC2014) on Saturday 1 March, the call for abstracts to the IAC UK Student Paper Competition is now open (see previous announcement for details). The deadline for submission of abstract is fast approaching – Friday 18th April. As announced at the NSSC2014, UKSEDS are supporting the undergraduate entry with […]