Fly your experiment in space!
BNSC and SSTL are offering UK schools the chance to fly an experiment on one of the small satellites built by SSTL. Any UK students, either individuals or teams, aged between 14 and 18 can enter their experimental package. Speaking about the Space Experiment on the BBC news website today Brainchild Dr Stuart Eves (SSTL) :
Satellites affect everyone on the planet. They deliver telephone communications and TV programmes across the globe, enable the safe navigation of ships and aircraft and provide the timing signals that are used to coordinate the national power grid and mobile phone calls.
The BNSC's Dr Ian Gibson also commented in the BBC report, expressing the essence of the Space Experiment.
This hands-on competition should be fun as well as educational
To hear more you can also tune in to the Today Programme on Radio 4. Use the "Listen Again" function for this morning (Thursday 13th December) and search around 6:55 am.
SSTL small satellite
BNSC and SSTL hope that the competition will stimulate interest in Space, with many entrants. Out of the hopefuls, six finalists will be announced at the UK Space Conference at Charterhouse in March 2008 and invited to submit more detailed proposals for consideration.
The winners will be announced at the IAF Congress in Glasgow in October 2008 and the winning experiment will be integrated onto an SSTL mission due to fly in the 2010 timeframe.
The experiment could aim to measure some aspect of the space environment, investigate some aspect of the Earth, or test a new satellite technology in Low Earth Orbit What to include in an initial proposal (of up to 5 pages):
- The purpose of the experiment you would like to fly.
- What data you would expect to collect.
- How you would use the data collected.
- How your experiment would advance space science or technology.
For full details visit the Space Experiment website: www.spaceexperiment.info
This entry was posted by Robin Wolstenholme on Thursday, December 13. 2007 at 14:36.
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