UK Space Agency funding for Space Placements
Notice: Funding available to industry for student placements The UK Space Agency is offering grants of up to £3,000 for organisations to take on undergraduate or postgraduate students for work placements in the space industry. Details: The funding, from the Agency’s Space Placements in Industry (SPIN) scheme, is for projects at small and medium size businesses, universities, charities, not-for-profit or government agencies within the space sector. There is a total of £45,000 funding available, with a maximum of £3,000 for each award. The scheme, which is supported by the Satellite...
Read MoreAurora Science Announcement of Opportunity
The UK Space Agency has just published an AO for Aurora Science 2018. The first mission in the Aurora programme, ExoMars, will search for traces of past and present life. A key goal of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is to detect and characterise trace gases in the Martian atmosphere and gain a better understanding of methane and other atmospheric gases that are present in small concentrations, but could be evidence for possible biological or geological activity. The ExoMars rover, due for launch in 2020, will search Mars for signs of biosignatures from past life preserved within the...
Read MoreHuman Spaceflight Workshop – Call for papers
Call for papers: The abstract submission for the Human Spaceflight and Weightlessness Science Workshop from 19th to 21st September, 2018 at ENAC (French Civil Aviation University) in Toulouse (France) is now open. Authors are invited to submit their abstracts online before April 15th, 2018. >> To submit click HERE The main topics of the Conference are: Topic 1: Proxima: Thomas Pesquet’s mission Topic 2: Parabolic flights Topic 3: Human spaceflights Topic 4: Life science Topic 5: Physical science Topic 6: Fundamental physics Topic 7: Astrobiology Topic 8: Life support and technology for...
Read MorePhD Project, University of Westminster
PHD PROJECT: Spectroscopic biosignatures of microbial life on Mars Lewis Dartnell, University of Westminster Four years, full time, starting in September 2018 £16,000 annual stipend and fee waiver The closing date for applications is 5pm on 13th April 2018 with interviews expected within two weeks of this date. Any queries to: lewis@lewisdartnell.com TO APPLY: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/research-areas/life-sciences/how-to-apply – Click on MPhil/PhD Biology (P052443), and clearly state that ‘FST 1: Spectroscopic biosignatures of...
Read MoreMeeting: ANU, Thursday 19 July, 2018
Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History, and the Social and Intellectual Benefits of the Cosmic Perspective Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Thursday 19 July, 2018 Astrobiology and Big History are two relatively new intellectual disciplines, the former focussed on searching for life elsewhere in the universe and the latter on integrating human history into the wider history of the cosmos. Despite some differences in emphasis these two disciplines share much in common, not least their interdisciplinarity and the cosmic and evolutionary perspectives that they both...
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