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Competition for A level students to work with NASA
Submitted by Cath Bashford on Wed, 05/05/2010 - 14:51.NESTA are giving two students the chance to win the trip of a lifetime, joining NASA to look for life at the edge of space.
As part of their education programme NESTA is offering two A-level students the opportunity to take part in a research trip to NASA and the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, USA.
Form more information visit the competition site at http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/public_services_lab/education/nasa
UKRA at the London Model Engineering Show - Alexandra Palace - This weekend! 22nd to 24th January 2010
Submitted by Mike Roberts on Wed, 20/01/2010 - 23:55.
UKRA will be at the London Model Engineering Show this weekend; Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Opening hours are 10 am to 5pm Friday and Saturday and 10am to 4pm Sunday.
If you would like to find out more about rocketry, get a chance to see some of our rockets and talk to some rocketeers about rocketry then this is a great opportunity.
UKRA S&T Chair talks about his work on the STERN motor
Submitted by Mike Roberts on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 11:43.The excellent SPACE.CO.UK site has a very interesting interview with UKRA's own chair of S&T, Richard Osborne, discussing his involvement with Reaction Engines development work on their STERN motor. This uses a novel ED (Expansion Deflection) nozzel which compenstaes for atmospheric pressure changes with altitude.
SpaceX Achieve Orbit with Falcon 1
Submitted by Mike Roberts on Mon, 29/09/2008 - 09:05.Internet millionaire Elon Musk has finally done it with the sucessful launch in to orbit of his Falcon 1 rocket this morning. It was the 4th attempt with the previous 3 having failed.
Congratulations to SpaceX it is an awesome achievement.
More news and videos in due course on the SpaceX website.
http://www.spacex.com/
UK Space Conference (Formarly BROHP) opens 2008 Registration.
Submitted by Cath Bashford on Sun, 27/01/2008 - 14:01.UK Space Conference (UKSC) 2008 will take place on 27-29th March at Charterhouse School near Godalming, Surrey. It aims to bring together the members of the UK space community to take part in lectures, panel discussions, networking opportunities, a careers fair as well as many other events. So if you are in academia, industry or government, if you are a student or educator, or if you are simply a space enthusiast, we look forward to seeing you there!
UKRA 2007 Advent Calendar - Now Live
Submitted by UKRA on Fri, 30/11/2007 - 09:35.
The UKRA 2007 Calendar is now live
Each day a new door will open with a treat, It could be a photo, a video or it could be a vendor offer. Come back each day and open the next door to see. Click on the calendar image or the link to take you to the UKRA 2007 Advent Calendar.
