The End of Planetary Atmospheres
Speaker Info: Paul Brooks (1985, Physics) graduated from St. Catz College, Oxford. From 1991 to 2011 he worked for the Defence Research Agency Space Department, delivered the UK’s first space-based surveillance camera (MWIR), designed “TopSat”, the World’s first high-resolution small satellite and founded the World record holding “Zephyr” solar-powered high altitude UAV. Following 6 years as a director at Surry Satellites (SSTL), Paul formed Prismatic in 2011, to first rebuild the Zephyr programme and then develop a new, more capable HALE UAV, PHASA-35. He is also the founder of the Oxford Space and Astronomy Society.
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The event will provide an opportunity to visit Harwell businesses and space organisations and to provide an insight into exciting developments in research, including engineering and materials, at Oxford University. It will provide a valuable networking opportunity for academia and industry including business across the Harwell and Westcott Clusters, to understand how the latest technology and research can help to advance your programmes and ambitions.
Speaker: Sam Adlen, Co-CEO of Space Solar
Description: Space Solar’s Solar Power satellites harness the inexhaustible energy of the sun, converting it to microwaves and beaming the energy to Earth, day and night and in all weather. This talk aims to provide an introduction to Space-Based Solar Power, including an overview of Space Solar and its development plans. It will also cover the latest global developments in the field, with a discussion of some of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
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The University of Oxford is holding a Space Technology Conference on 7 November 2023 at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. The aim of the conference is to showcase what Oxford and its partners are doing related to space technology, and to engage the space community to uncover potential new collaborations for research and translation. We will also hold a number of breakout sessions geared to informing a new Oxford SpaceTech Institute that is currently being scoped.
Registration is free of charge, as the University is hoping to welcome engagement and seek input from stakeholders in space tech. This event is targeted at Oxford research leaders, space-sector industry, Government, public bodies and other research institutes. The event is also open to post-doctoral researchers directly involved in space tech.
For more information, please contact: Connor D’Arcy (Space @ Oxford Coordinator): connor.darcy@mpls.ox.ac.uk.
Space Futures - Speculation and Storytelling (Session 2)
Space Futures - Speculation and Storytelling (Session 1)
Lecture: “Commercial space and science: can they co-exist?”
Professor Emma Bunce's captivating lecture, 'Robotic exploration of our solar system', at Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place on Thursday, 15th June, 12:00pm.
We are organising a meeting of the UK voclanic gas community to come together and discuss ideas and future research directions. This has been kindly supported by COMET.
Join us for an evening with Dr Tim Flohrer (Head of Space Debris Office at the European Space Agency) and space startups.
