✈️ | ESA's Fly Your Thesis! 2021 Team from Cranfield University @cranfielduni ♻️ | Clean Space in LEO 🛰 Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn!
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Recent events have shown us just how quickly space #debris can worsen. Back on ground (unfortunately!), we're working through all the data we got from the flight, refining our de-orbit solutions ✈️ Getting to relive the amazing experience 🐿️
They tested the deployment of their sails during ESA’s last parabolic flight campaign aboard Air Zero G.
Learn more about it this week on all our socials.
#AirZeroG #Novespace #ESA #microgravity #A310 #FlyYourThesis #EuropeanWeekForWasteReduction
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🛰Space #debris, has become a critical threat to future and ongoing missions. Team LEOniDAS is a team working on one of the solutions: lightweight, small, cost-effective drag sails deployed at end of a mission, thus ensuring a faster #deorbitation of the spacecraft. #ESA
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Today Jacob and Hannah took over the @Space4Climate stand at @COP26 🌎🛰
If you’re at #COP26 today, come along to The Planetarium in the Green Zone to learn about how space is used to tackle climate issues💚🌏
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UKSEDS very own Zaria Serfontein and Craig Orrock will be in the Green Zone at @COP26 all day showcasing the UK's Earth Observation community. Come along and say hi!
@Space4Climate
#earthobservation #climatechange #cop26 #ukseds #space4climate
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3 Student Teams, 2 from UK (@leonidasfyt from @CranfieldUni, ZEUS from @UofGlasgow), 1 led by UK (@JMMunozTejeda from @imperialcollege) and working with others across Europe. The future is bright. @spacegovuk
That's a wrap for the 2021 Fly Your Thesis! campaign. Teams DZH Dynamics, LEOniDAS, and ZEUS ran their experiments in different states of gravity and got to experience weightlessness for the first time during @esa's 77th Parabolic Flight Campaign 🛫😁🛬 esa.int/Education/Fly_Your_T…
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Today the #FlyYourThesis teams @leonidasfyt, DZH Dynamics and ZEUS took to the skies for their first parabolic flight of three! Today we focus on @cranfielduni 's @leonidasfyt team. Their wonderful technology deploys sails of different lengths and geometries
The drag sails are ready for microgravity testing! 🚀✈️♻️
After one exhausting week of assembly, testing and pre-flight checks, our drag sail technology demonstrator is fully operational and integrated on the A310-AirZeroG aircraft. Experiment is good to go!
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Wow! Look at some of the great designs are Engineers in Year 5 have come up with. With these we really could clean up space!
Well done everyone and good luck to those entering the competition! @ElmridgeScience @UKSEDS
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Come and talk to us at the @UKSEDS #StudentSpaceSymposium 🚀
Find out more about our work and opportunities available at AstroAgency 🌟
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We're in the process of entering the Leo competition @leonidasfyt @esa @WorldSpaceWeek #DREAMers @satrust_
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🌍 Key Stage 2 have been inventing the solution for space pollution as part of the @CranfieldUni competition! 🚀Our fingers are crossed for an @arktindal winner! 🤞🏼#TeamTindal #KS2 #science #learning
Still lots of time to enter our Leo Competition! KS2, ages 7-12, are eligible to enter 🎨 Submit pictures of how you think we should clean up space, winning prize is your own custom flying squirrel teddy! Entries close on the 8th October 2021; bit.ly/3ijyeOa 🛰
Big shout out to @esa and @spacegovuk for sponsoring our project and enabling us to run events like these!
#leocompetition #LEOniDAS #backtoschool #space #primaryschoolteacher #primaryschool #parents #cleanupspace #dragsail #ESA #flyyourthesis2021 #fyt2021 #spacesustainability
The clock is ticking and our team is fully focused on Assembling, Integrating and Testing our experiment. The AIT phase represent a critical step in the development of an experiment, since all the requirements must be checked and verified. Remember: Safety First!
Here we see Marco assembling, integrating and finally testing our 3D-printed DOMs, while waiting for the shipment of our final manufactured parts.
#dragsail #ESA #flyyourthesis2021 #fyt2021 #spacesustainability #spacedebris #stem #AIT #testing
Brace yourselves! Integration weeks ahead! 🛠⚠️
A large part of AIT, which we don´t mention much in our posts, is the electrical integration: we need to make sure that all the different subsystems and sensor present are able to “talk” to each other and capture the experiment.
The video shows a time-lapse of Gonzalo integrating MOSFETs into a soldering board, which will later be used for controlling the deployment mechanism.
Don’t forget to check out our new website leonidasfyt.co.uk/ and follow us on other social media!