Case Studies

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...

This is a case study at The Case Centre. Once registered on their site search for Mission to Mars (A). The description from their site "This case is set in spring 2000, several months after two successive, failed missions to the planet Mars. Students are asked to...

The European Space Agency (ESA) have run a Space Hackathon in partnership with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). 30 participants split into 6 teams had 30 hours to create an open-source solution to 1 of 6 challenges focused around meeting the Sustainable...

The University of Leicester have run an Astrodynamics Mission Simulation 10-credit module over 8 weeks (2 full afternoon computer lab sessions per week) using NASA’s General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT). The module is taught using a Constructivism approach, in which...

The University of Bristol have run an extra-curricular competition to design a satellite in a sodacan, or “CanSat” using a predesigned kit over a few weeks. 5 groups of 5 students entered, soldered together a basic CanSat, designed and built payloads, then launched...

University College London have run a curricular 2-week research project into space missions that are currently in development/operation for their MSc Space Science and Engineering students. The students work in pairs and are required to submit a 2500-word report...

Based on a suggestion by Kingston University London, who run this as a curricular competition, BristolSEDS ran a water rocket competition in October 2017 with the aim to have multiple teams competing to design and build water rockets. 5 teams of 3-4 students competed,...

The University of Surrey ‘Electronics and Amateur Radio Society’ (EARS) sent a team to compete in the UKSEDS Lunar Rover competition to design and build a rover to achieve an objective set by the organisers. This was an extra-curricular project run by students who...

The Open University run a curricular activity on the impact, damage and shielding of micrometeoroids using a remotely operated optical microscope. The Damage Equations are used to approximate the crater depth or maximum thickness of material that will be perforated...

Along with the Sheffield Space Initiative (SSI) and the growing space interest at the University of Sheffield, students are developing the university’s very first satellite. Using NASA open source code and low-cost devices, the aim is to create a small device enabling...

Project SunrIde was the first student-led rocket design engineering team from the U.K. to compete in the Spaceport America Cup (SAC) 2018, the 2nd annual rocket engineering conference and competition that takes place in New Mexico, USA. The team designed and...

The Manchester CanSat Project was developed by a team of mainly 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate engineers. They took part in the 2017/18 AIAA & AAS CanSat competition held in Texas, USA, which they won. The team designed and built their CanSat to achieve the set...

The Drop your Thesis competition gives University students from bachelor to PhD level the opportunity to perform scientific or technological research in microgravity conditions. Students are responsible for selecting and proposing the experiment objectives, designing...