Suaineadh in London for SET for Britain

This Sunday, a part of the Suaineadh team went to London to present the Suaineadh experiment at the House of Commons in the parliament. Malcolm and Thomas left Glasgow early to do some sight seeing and preparation before the presentation on Monday. On the day of the 'SET for Britain' we got a private tour of the Parliament with our MP Ann McKechin showing us the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Our poster presentation afterwards went quite well, we received quite some interest on the Suaineadh experiment. The event was great to get an overview over the research undertaken in Britain at the moment. During the two hours poster presentation, the Suaineadh team took the chance to network with the other researchers.

We used to rest of the day to do some more sightseeing. We even saw the unveiling of the London 2012 countdown clock (500 days to go). Overall it was a succesful trip that brought us a lot of new ideas :)

Suaineadh in the Strathclyde Engineering News

The Suaineadh experiment made it into this month issue (March 2011) of the Starthclyde Engineering News: http://www.strath.ac.uk/media/faculties/engineering/newsletter/2011/Faculty_Newsletter_-_March_2011.html

The Suaineadh experiment is also introduced on the homepage of the Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory: http://www.strath.ac.uk/space/newsevents/

Now its time to prepare for our poster presentation for the SET for Britain in London on Monday :)

Suaineadh reaches out

Thanks to Adam, the Suaineadh blog is now linked to http://www.kosmonauta.net/ :)

Another excisting news is that the Suaineadh experiment just got accepted to be presented at the SET for BRITAIN (http://www.setforbritain.org.uk/) in front of the House of Commons in London. Malcolm and Thomas will travel down to London on the 14th of March.

Team back home again

The morning began with an early wake-up at 7:30am because we had to check out by 8am. After packing all our baggage into the bus we were heading off to DLR for one more last time. The morning was filled with exciting lectures about the REXUS and BEXUS launch campaign. We can not wait to go up to ESRANGE :).

The Trainings week ended with a nice lunch of Fleischpflanzerl und Kartoffelbrei (German meatballs and mashed potatoes). Based on the rainy weather, the team decided to go directly to the airport and not stopover in the city center of Munich. We will visit Munich more in detail when we come back for the CDR (Critical Design Review) in June. Going directly to the airport was a good decision because the time went by so fast. After a "dinner" at McD, Jerker, Adam and Mengqi headed towards Stockholm while Malcolm and Thomas flew back to Glasgow.

We had a really great time at the Trainings Week with everyone. Thank you very much for organising the whole event, it was awesome!

Last day of the Training Week

The picture to the left shows the Suaineadh team immediately after their Preliminary Design Review with all the stuff that we brought with us from Glasgow and Stockholm.

Following a couple of interesting presentation from all the BEXUS (Balloon Experiments for University Students) team we went to the air museum in Oberschleissheim. After a presentation of Europe's ISS laboratory Columbus, we had an exciting guided tour through the museum. We had dinner in the amazing setting of the museum in the middle of all the planes, a very unique opportunity. The evening finished with a nice closing party.

Suaineadh had their PDR

Today at 3pm, the Suaineadh team had their Preliminary Design Review (PDR) at the DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen. 15 Minutes of Presentation were followed by 1hr 15min of questions and discussions. The whole team thinks that the PDR went quite well. Still a lot of stuff to do but we are on a good path. Time to do some socializing at the air museum Oberschleissheim tonight, its hard to believe that the Trainings week will be over tomorrow.

First presentation

Our first presentation of the Trainings week went pretty well, we got a few laughs ;). Many interesting REXUS experiments were presented.