This is an activity on making comets, which engages students by linking rainbows, spectra, and flame tests to comets, emphasising the search for life-bearing minerals and the origin of water on Earth. It is designed to be carried out as an outreach activity for...
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Student Space Research Symposium 2025
Come and present your work at the UK Space Conference, meet space industry and talk about jobs and listen to an international line up of space experts! Space Universities Network and the UK Space Agency have teamed up to provide an exciting opportunity for...
UK Space Conference 2025
We’re back for 2025 with a new venue, a host of new conference features, and another international line up of expert speakers. A lot has happened since our last event in Belfast 2023 and our overriding emotion is excitement as we prepare to unpack what it all means...
SUN Annual Workshop 2024
On Tuesday 2nd July, around 40 SUN members congregated at the University of Nottingham for our annual workshop. Before the start of the first session, we were welcomed by Ian, as well as Tanja and Jez from the University of Nottingham (and tea and coffee). We were...
Next Gen Nav 2024
Building on the success of last year's event, the Royal Institute of Navigation are looking forward to Next Gen Nav 2024, which will be held on 24th October. This year, the event will take place at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England....
Global MilSatCom 2024 – Graduate Space Careers Forum
Join the Future of Space Exploration: Graduate Space Careers Forum at Global MilSatCom Are you passionate about space and eager to explore exciting career opportunities? The Graduate Space Careers Forum is your gateway to discovering non-traditional career paths in...
Educational GNSS Tool
Educational GNSS Tool This video was produced for the Advanced Space Systems module at the University of Bristol by a student as a part of the assessment for the module. Adam introduces GPS, as well as a tool written by him to explore GNSS. Link to his github...
Industry Case Study: Using Satellite Data to Help in Disasters
Space Universities Network & Industry Case Study This is a UK Space Universities Network Industry case study, one of a series of case studies aimed at providing teaching exercises for UK higher education. The University of Bristol and Ordinal Space (on behalf of...
NOAA Space Weather Training
This resource was developed by NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA), and is reproduced from Education and Outreach | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center.What is space weather? Space Weather refers to variations in the space environment between...
MIT OpenCourseWare Space Systems Engineering Graduate Course
Prof. Edward Crawley and Prof, Olivier de Weck's graduate course from 2007 presenting space systems engineering through design of ground and space telescopes.
Orbital Elements definition video clip
This University of Bristol YouTube video shows the 6 Orbital or Keplerian Elements. These elements are used to describe the position of a body in space. Each element is shown increasing in turn, using the example of a satellite orbiting the Earth. The modelling was...
Orbital Frames of Reference video
This University of Bristol YouTube video shows the difference between Earth Centered Earth Fixed and Earth Centered Inertial Reference Frames for orbit modelling. The modelling was performed at and funded by the Aerospace Engineering Department of the University of...
Princeton University Space Systems lecture slides 2016
Robert Stengel's lectures examine the design of spacecraft and launch vehicles, including the impacts of the atmosphere and the space environment on requirements and configurations. The principles and design aspects of the structure, propulsion, power, thermal,...
MIT OpenCourseWare Space Systems Engineering Undergraduate Course
Instructor(s) Prof. David Miller, Col. John Keesee lecture slides and course details for Space Systems Product Development Undergraduate Course Number 16.83X. As Taught In Spring 2002 - Spring 2003. This course walks though content to demonstrate the feasibility of an...
Space Debris 1957 – 2016 video
Resource typeVideo and Audio ClipsResource topicHistory of SpaceflightThis visualisation, created by Dr Stuart Grey, lecturer at University College London, shows how the amount of space debris has changed since the dawn of the space age. https://youtu.be/O64KM4GuRPk
IBM Big Data Online Courses
Over 300 Data Science and Cognitive Computing Courses from the IBM Skills Network.
NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training Program
The Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) Online Resource Guide contains links and brief descriptions of ARSET trainings from 2015-2023. Each training image links to its respective training webpage, where training materials can be accessed any time.[embeddoc...
Reading University, Future Learn MOOC – Come Rain or Shine
Understand and explore the physical processes behind the weather. Try forecasting and have a go at interpreting weather maps and compare results with our educator, Dr Sylvia Knight’s.
ESA, Future Learn MOOC – The Frozen Frontier – Monitoring the Greenland Ice Sheet from Space
Learn how the Greenland ice sheet is monitored from space and the ground, to understand our past, present and future climate.
ESA – Newcomers Earth Observation Guide
The aim of this guide is to help non-experts in providing a starting point in the decision process for selecting an appropriate Earth Observation (EO) solution.
Astrodynamics Mission Simulation Case Study video
Nigel Bannister from the University of Leicester talks through the Astrodynamics Mission Simulation Case Study. Recorded at the SUN Space Teaching Workshop.
Fly your Thesis Case Study video
Pau Cuartielles talks through the Fly Your Thesis Case Study. Recorded at the SUN Space Teaching Workshop.
Nibbles in Space
"Nibbles in Space" is a series of short podcasts (<< 10 min), aiming to make space more accessible. Prof Malcolm Macdonald is a professional engineer and is Chair of Applied Space Technology at the University of Strathclyde. The recordings are available for free...
The Conquest of Space: Space Exploration and Rockets MOOC
A short open course by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid describing the history of the space industry and it's impacts on society. By successfully completing this course, you will gain an understand of key events and developments of the Space Age. You will learn to...
The Evolving Universe MOOC
This MOOC by The California Institute of Technology, covers our understanding of the physical universe and its major constituents, including planetary systems, stars, galaxies, black holes, quasars, larger structures, and the universe as a whole.
Online Course: Hurricane Tracking with Satellite Data
This 5-week online course explores the key concepts of data science required to process, analyse, and interpret large datasets. You’ll use tutorials and case studies to understand the possibilities within these datasets, and learn how to interpret satellite data...
MOOC on the Science and Technology behind Astronomical Discovery
Each week this course covers a different aspect of Astronomical technology, matching each piece of technology to a highlight science result. It explains how the technology works, how it has allowed us to collect astronomical data, and, with some basic physics, how we...
Presentation Slides on Link Budget Calculations
Presentation slides on the theory and calculations for Link Budget in Small Sat Communications. [embeddoc url="https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/space/workshops/2016-small-sat/Documents/Link_budget_uvigo.pdf" width="80%" height="700px" download="none"...
Kingston University Rocket Engineering (KURE) Society YouTube Channel
The Kingston University Rocket Engineering (KURE) society have set up their own YouTube channel in which they have been making tutorials made by students for fellow students (40+ tutorials of around 45min-1hr15min each). Some of the Kingston lecturers are using the...