ISSET-S seeks to bring together students for aerospace enterprises and foster interdisciplinary syne
We are a team of dedicated multi-disciplinary students that work as one unit to achieve our objective of bringing space science and aerospace technology to Alberta. Our team roles are broadly categorized into Financial, Marketing, Public Relations, Logistics, Webmaster, Attitude Determination & Control, Communications, Mechanical, Power, Orbit & Payload, and Command & Data Handling.
09/03/2019
Know a University of Alberta student considering a career in the space industry? Encourage them to apply for CaNoRock-18 by this Friday September 6th! More info: https://www.ualberta.ca/institute-for-space-science-exploration-and-technology/outreach/canorock
08/14/2016
Student Participation Initiative - IAC 2016 Student Participation Initiative - IAC 2016
11/05/2015
Come check out today's Physics colloquium! FYI, there's free donuts and coffee at 2:00!
Join us tomorrow for a talk on "ESA's mission fleet in support of Earth and geospace science". See the document below for more info.
09/28/2015
Heard about water on Mars? Come learn about how we're going to get there: Making the Case for Makers in SPACE with Dr. Geoff Steeves. - The Shack
Heard about water on Mars? Come learn about how we're going to get there: Making the Case for Makers in SPACE with Dr. Geoff Steeves.
04/04/2014
Wanna Build a Rocket? NASA’s About to Give Away a Mountain of Its Code | Enterprise | WIRED Next Thursday, NASA will release a master list of software projects it's cooked up over the years. This is more than just stuff than runs on a personal computer. Think robots and cryogenic systems and climate simulators. There's even code for running rocket guidance systems.
02/11/2014
https://twitter.com/DavidMilling
Dave successfully launched the little xray detector after it made the long trip down to Antarctica. Hopefully something interesting happens while it is flying!
David Milling (DavidMilling) on Twitter The latest from David Milling (). In the space physics game when not out climbing, hiking or skiing
02/04/2014
Dave loves to fly balloons!
In the bright light of Antarctica's summer sun, a NASA mission launched its first 18 science balloons between Dec. 27, 2013, and Feb. 2, 2014. BARREL, or the Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses, plans to launch 20 balloons in total to help unravel the mysterious radiation belts, two gigantic donuts of particles that surround Earth.
Once launched, each balloon travels in a wide circle around the South Pole for up to three weeks, so that a handful of balloons can be up at any one time. Circling the pole, the balloons fly through the foot point of where Earth's magnetic fields descend down to the ground. Instruments on the balloons observe electrons traveling down from space along these fields. By coordinating with NASA's Van Allen Probes – two spacecraft orbiting high above -- the team hopes to determine what occurrence in the belts correlates to occasional bursts of electrons that can precipitate down toward Earth. Such information will ultimately help scientists understand -- and predict changes -- in the Van Allen radiation belts.
This image is of a BARREL balloon launch at Halley Research Station on Jan. 30, 2014.
Image Credit: NASA/BARREL/David Milling
11/26/2013
Aw, Look At These Cute Miniature Satellites Being Launched Into Space Are you going to do some science, guys?
09/20/2013
If you aren't busy tomorrow, come check out the annual Space Symposium! The guy who built the giant rock laser on Curiosity will be there. No big deal.
http://www.isset.ualberta.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=159&Itemid=79
Space Exploration Symposium 2013 ISSET - The Institute for Space Science, Exploration and Technology
Rocket launches tomorrow (the 18th) in Quad at 20:00. Don't miss it!
Edited video from our September 3rd space balloon launch!