High-Altitude Ballooning has really taken off this year, with their launch on the 3rd November; Project Commander Medad Newman has written an article in the Imperial Newspaper (Felix) about the experience! Read the text below, or view the article here! “On 3rd November, members of the Imperial College Society for the Read more…
Last Sunday, members of Imperial College Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (ICSEDS) travelled to Elsworth, Cambridgeshire, for their first launch trip. The aim was to launch two high altitude balloons (HABs) and several model rockets built over the course of the year. The two HABs were the Read more…
There is an opportunity to for a UKSEDS wide project involving flying an experiment on a dutch sounding rocket. UKSEDS may be able to provide a proposal for a scientific payload. A project would need, at a minimum, on the experiment side, very committed team members on science, electronics, and mechanics, Read more…
Well here we are again at the start of a new year and a new term. Hopefully everyone had a great holiday season (if you had to revise for exams, I feel your pain). Anyway it’s back to projects now and we finally have received our order of model rockets! Read more…
(Apologies for the source, I found it on google news HONEST! I looked on BBC but they have yet to report it so maybe its not true?) Story
I know you have been waiting for the first meeting to kick off the start of High Altitude Weather Ballooning, we at ICSEDS are very excited too. The first meeting will take place: Tuesday 20th November 2012 at 1pm in Huxley Building Lecture Theatre 311 In this meeting roles and Read more…
We are a small group/project but with exciting possibilities! As this is not a very big project yet we have the opportunity for more freedom and lax approach to doing things. I would like to just meet up casually so everyone can meet up and get to know each other etc and Read more…
The first meeting of ICSEDS rocketry group this will take place today: Thursday 15th November 2012 at 6pm in Chemical Engineering LT-3 (Lecture Theatre 3) This building is quite a maze so there will be signs directing you through. This meeting will be all about what ICSEDS would like you Read more…