Warwick students accepted onto space programme | Coventry Observer Home NEWS DATING News SPORT Property Jobs FA CUP MEMORIES FAMILY NOTICES Directory ENTERTAINMENT BUY PHOTOS Like Advertise with us PROPERTY JOBS 0 MOTORS Tweet 0 Hi: 9° Lo:6° 9° Sunny 7 day DIRECTORY Warwick students accepted onto space programme By Chris Smith Tuesday 18 February 2014 Updated: 18/02 09:23 Popular » 1 Driver dead after smash in Radford 2 Never-before-seen car factory pictures feature in new book 3 Warwick students accepted onto space programme 4 Sports Centre under threat in ambitious council strategy Read Online 5 Mental Health Trust downgrading jobs, whistleblowers claim The third and fourth-year engineering students who are building WUSAT2 (s) A GROUP of Warwick University students have joined the space race. The team of third and fourth-year engineering students have designed and a built a satellite that will be launched 100km into space in spring next year. Subscribe Back Issues More news » Coventry's City of Culture bid backed by English Heritage Local Businesses More Businesses » A BID to crown Coventry as They are among nine university projects chosen to be on board the European Space Agency (ESA) rocket REXUS which will take off from the Swedish National Space Centre Esrange. The satellite - known as WUSAT2 (Warwick University Satellite Team) and measuring just 10cm x 10cm x 20cm - will contain their own electronics, communications and sensor systems to carry out an experiment suggested by a team of physicists at Warwick who hunt for planets outside our solar system and analyse their atmospheres. a future A SMASH on the M6 Driver dead after smash in Radford A MAN died in a crash in The data is useful to help astronomers better understand the composition of their atmospheres and potentially decide whether they are possible candidates to life. Trees uprooted as storms hit Coventry "Now we’ve been selected our work has only just started. We have to design and build the satellite and all its electronic and communication systems, no mean feat seeing as the final satellite will measure just a few centimetres. "But we’re all hugely excited about the launch as it’s not every day you get to take part in a space mission." The Warwick Satellite Team is a long-running project within the School of Pools and Gardens Ltd Category - Pools » described as significant It will look at gases such as oxygen and sodium, and the brightness of sunlight at different heights as it falls back to Earth above the Arctic Circle. "As far as we are aware we are the only solely undergraduate team to have been chosen to launch their own experiment into space with ESA," said 22year-old Oliver Vavasour, who is a former pupil at The Revel Primary in Monks Kirby and Lawrence Sheriff School in Rugby. 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Director Dr Bill Crofts said: “Being selected for the ESA launch is a great achievement on behalf of all the students in the group. You Could Be Owed £2400 "We want our engineering students to get hands-on experience of working on the kinds of projects they will be working on when they go out into the working world after graduation. Christies Franchise UK "It’s this experience, as well as the engineering knowledge the students are gaining, that is very valuable to employers." Need Electronic Parts? Simple Project Template RS Components Free Stuff UK Everyday IT Training for IT Jobs Oliver Vavasour, from Monks Kirby, is part of the Warwick Uni team whose satellite will be launched into space next year (s) Share This Like 0 Tweet 0 0 Regional news » Rugby Observer Solihull Observer Leamington Observer Redditch Standard Van driver airlifted to hospital after early morning M6 smash RAF veteran dies alone family and friends sought for ... 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