Agency 27/10/2021 400 views 15 likes In brief The EIRSAT-1 team, participating in the second round of ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! Programme, has successfully concluded the environmental test campaign on their Engineering Qualification Model (EQM). In-depth This milestone ran from 13 September to 15 October 2021 at the CubeSat Support Facility in […]
Day: November 5, 2021
Fly Your Thesis! 2021 campaign wrapped up
Agency 01/11/2021 400 views 12 likes In brief Over the last two weeks, the 77th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign operated by Novespace took place in Bordeaux, France. A total of nine experiments were on board of the Airbus A310 AirZeroG, and three of them had been conceived by student teams […]
Orbit Your Thesis! 3 Call For Proposals
Agency 02/11/2021 324 views 13 likes The ESA Education Office has opened a call for proposals for student teams from eligible countries to submit orbityourthesis [at] esa.int before the deadline. ESA Education Office, in partnership with Space Application Services will review the applications before shortlisting the teams, and the final selection. […]
Some colleges are mammals, others are cities
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Higher education in the United States spans five orders of magnitude, from the tiny institutions like the 26-person Deep Springs College in the high desert of eastern California to behemoths, like Arizona State University’s city-sized 130,000. A new study by Santa Fe Institute researchers examines how […]
Social media is reshaping British universities’ value systems in a scramble for likes and shares
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Universities’ value judgements about research are becoming ‘coupled’ to social media platforms as they compete for funding by demonstrating their influence beyond academia, an analysis suggests. The study, by researchers at the University of Cambridge, focused on how universities use social media in ‘impact’ case studies, […]
U.S. adolescents are receiving less sex education in key topics than 25 years ago
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Only half of young people in the United States are getting sex education that meets minimum standards, according to a Rutgers researcher who found that adolescents are not receiving critical information. Of even greater concern is that a significant percentage of young people do not receive […]