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Welcome to the UCL Space Domain Newsletter. We will be highlighting exciting research within the Space Domain as well as featuring lectures, events, news and funding opportunities.
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Space Domain in the Media
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Congratulations as UCL becomes the newest UK ESA_Lab
UCL Vice-Provost (Research) David Price and ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Woerner signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) that has made UCL an official ESA_LAB on the 24th of September at the UK Space Conference in Newport Wales.
This MoA has created a mutually beneficial relationship which will allow UCL to better align with ESA's research needs and provide specialist support to relevant space-related research programmes.
Congratulations to all involved, particularly the theme leaders:
UCL point of Contact : Prof. Alan Smith.
CubeSats:
Theme leader: Robert Wicks, Department of Space and Climate Physics.
Earth Observation:
Theme leader: Professor Julienne Stroeve, Department of Earth Sciences.
Economics, Innovation and Public Policy:
Theme Lead: Professor Mariana Mazzucato, UCL Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).
Exoplanets:
Theme lead: Professor Giovanna Tinetti, Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Interdisciplinary Space Studies and Research:
Theme lead: Professor Victor Buchli, Department of Anthropology.
Materials Science:
Theme lead: Professor Kwang Choy, Institute for Materials Discovery.
Off-world Living:
Theme Lead: Professor Andrew Edkins, UCL’s Bartlett Real Estate Institute.
Planetary Science:
Theme leader: Dr Dominic Papineau, Earth Sciences, UCL.
Satellite Communication:
Theme leader: Dr Katarzyna Balakier, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE)
Space Law and Regulation:
Theme leader: Dr Madeline Carr, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP).
Space Medicine:
Theme leader: Dr Iya Whiteley, Centre for Space Medicine (CSM), Department of Space and Climate Physics.
Space Policy, Governance, Security:
Theme leader: Professor Serge Plattard, UCL Space Domain, Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
Space Project Management and Systems Engineering:
Theme leader: Dr Michael Emes, Centre for Systems Engineering, Department of Space and Climate Physics, UCL.
Space Science Instrumentation:
Theme leader: Professor Dhiren Kataria, Department of Space and Climate Physics.
Space Weather:
Theme leader: Professor Lucie Green, Department of Space and Climate Physics (MSSL).
Photo credit: ESA_Stephen_Makin_2019
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New Website for Space Domain
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1 O'Clock Space Talk - How Vulnerable are Space Activities?
The UCL Space Domain is excited to announce our next confirmed Lecture 'How Vulnerable are Space Activites?' in our new series of 1 O'Clock Space Lectures. The next lecture will be on the 11th of December 2019 from 13:00-14:00 in Benthan House, Lecture Room LG26 given by Prof. Serge Plattard, Deputy Director of the UCL Space Domain, MAPS Faculty.
All Welcome! Tickets available at https://bit.ly/34fJcur.
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Congratulations to the UCL's team lead by Prof. Giovanna Tinetti for their results demonstrating water vapour in the atmosphere of planet K2-18 b.
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The SmartSat CRC is a consortium of industry and research organisations that will develop game changing technologies to bootstrap Australia’s space industry and catapult it into the 1/2 trillion dollar global economy.
SmartSat CRC has secured $245M in funding and are actively looking for research partners.
The Space Domain is keen to facilitate future research collaborations with SmartSat CRC. Please get in touch with Alan Smith with interest and proposals.
Further details: https://smartsatcrc.com/
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Harwell Campus Cross Cluster Networking Event.
Wednesday, 20 Nov. 2019 12:00 -14:00, Didcot, UK.
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Collision Avoidance Challenge: To manoeuvre or not to manoeuvre...that's the question.
Deadline December 16, 2019. Further information on website.
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Space Images Wanted!
The UCL Space Domain is looking for your best Space images to create a mosaic image of London taken from the ISS and put on our new Space Domain T-Shirts and Tote Bags. If you have a great image that encapsulates the Space Domain or the research that is going on at UCL please add it to our mosaic here.
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The Moon Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich is the UK's biggest exhibition exploring our cultural and scientific relationship with the Moon. Exhibition on until 5th January 2020.
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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India
December 10-13, 2019
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