Events

Tuesday
Jan242012

"China’s Expanding Space Programme" 

RAeS Space Group Lecture

"China’s Expanding Space Programme"

Karl Bergquist - Europe’s leading expert on China’s space programme.

Thursday 26th January at 1800.

4 Hamilton Place,

London

Note that the talk will be followed by a drinks reception sponsored by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
See http://aerosociety.com/Events/Event-List/318/Chinas-Expanding-Space-Programme for more details and registration.

Thursday
Jan052012

Aerospace medicine Scholarships – Deadlines Approaching!

 

The Aerospace Medical Association offers three scholarship opportunities to financially assist those pursuing Aerospace Medicine training programs.  Deadlines for applying for these applications are rapidly approaching.  Scholarship descriptions and application requirements are listed below and can be found here http://www.asma.org/pdf/asma-scholarships.pdf.

 

The Jeffrey R. Davis, M.D., Aerospace Medicine Endowed Scholarship: awards $500.00 to a recipient. AsMA /AMSRO members can use the scholarship to attend any of the aerospace medicine conferences at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, TX). Students/residents currently attending UTMB can use the scholarship to attend the AsMA Annual Scientific Meeting. Apply by completing the application form (http://www.asma.org/pdf/davis_scholarship_app.pdf) and submitting it to the AsMA Headquarters (jsventek@asma.org)  by January 31.

 

Aerospace Medical Students and Residents Organization (AMSRO) Scholarship: offers a $1,000 travel stipend to students and residents for attending an aerospace medicine meeting of their choice. Applications (http://www.asma.org/members/AsMA_scholarship_app.doc) are currently submitted to Alex Garbino at garbino@bcm.edu; electronic submissions are required. Deadline is January 31.

 

AsMA Fellows Scholarship: $2,000 is given annually to an AsMA member who is a student in an aerospace medicine residency program, graduate program in aerospace medicine (Masters or Ph.D.), medical certificate or aerospace diploma course, or in a full time education/training program in the allied fields such as nursing, physiology, human factors, psychology, ergonomics, engineering, etc. Selection criteria include delivering a slide or poster presentation as a first author at an AsMA Annual Scientific Meeting and then publish a manuscript as first author in the Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine journal that is based on the same topic and/or material covered in the slide or poster presentation delivered at the AsMA meeting. All AsMA members whose abstracts are accepted for presentation at the next AsMA meeting will receive detailed information on eligibility criteria and the application process (including an application form). For detailed information about this scholarship and the application form please go here http://www.asma.org/pdf/fellows-scholarship_docs.pdf.  Deadline is January 31.

 

Tuesday
Jan032012

Joint Space Life Science Meeting, June, Aberdeen.

 

European Space Agency (ESA)
International Society of Gravitational Physiology (ISGP)

‘Life in Space for Life on Earth’

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the International Society for Gravitational Physiology (ISGP) announce the ESA / ISGP Joint Life Sciences Meeting 2012

The Symposium combines the 33rd Annual International Gravitational Physiology Meeting, and the 12th European Life Sciences Symposium and will be held in Aberdeen, UK on June 18th – June 22nd, 2012.

The second announcement and call for papers brochure will be posted within 2 months.

You are most cordially invited to attend this meeting, for more information please visit the conference website.

Wednesday
Dec142011

UK Space Environments & Microgravity Conference 2012

Aberdeen will play host to the inaugural UK Space Environments Conference on 16 - 17 June 2012. Leading UK and international researchers from the fields of space biomedicine, astrobiology, astrophysics and astrochemistry will present and discuss details of their work and plans for a UK future in space.

Dr Jeff Davis, NASA's Director of Space Life Science and Medical Operations will present on the topic of collaboration for space and terrestrial benefit and provide an opportunity for delegates to discuss human space flight topics with one of the world's leading experts in this field.  

Early bird registration is £81 (£57 for students) before 1 Apr 2012. Further details and registration arrangements will be presented at this site over the next few weeks.

 

UK Space Environments Conference

“UK Research & Education for Space & Terrestrial Benefit”

16 - 17 June, 2012

Satrosphere Science Centre

Aberdeen

 

Tuesday
Dec132011

Lecture, 26 Jan 2012 - China’s Expanding Space Programme

In October 2003 China became the third nation to launch humans into space - Yang Liwei is now immortalised as the first Taikonauit. Just eight years later, on 29 September 2011, the Tiangong-1 space station was placed in orbit to be visited by Chinese astronauts over the next two years. 

In 2010 China had 15 successful launches into space - the same number as the USA, and just as America’s Space Shuttle was being withdrawn from service! China now has about 70 civil and military satellites in space providing services such as TV, communications, weather forecasting, navigation and environmental monitoring. Its scientific programme is also expanding. Its second Moon orbiter, Chang’e-2, completed its six-month mission around the Moon in April 2011, and then travelled further out into deep space to arrive at the L-2 Lagrange point 1.5 million kms from Earth (where Earth and sun gravity cancel out). The first Chinese probe to Mars is due to be launched on a Russian rocket in November 2011. For more details visit

 

Event venue: 

Royal Aeronautical Society

No.4 Hamilton Place

London, W1J 7BQ, UK