Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about Cassini and its extraordinary mission. The Cassini mission began on the 15th October, 1997, when the 2.5 ton spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral in the US. A joint venture from NASA, ESA, and ASI, the Cassini mission was designed to reach the outer Solar System …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about the SR-71, one of the most beautiful aircraft ever made, usually also referred to as Blackbird due to its characteristic colour. During its missions, the SR-71 operated at speeds and altitudes so high, that the standard evasive action in the case a surface-to-air missile launch was …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we retrace the history about one of the bravest man of aviation: Chuck Yeager. Late 40s, Muroc Army Air Field, CA.With WWII over, Army Air Force desert station was destined to become a proving ground for aircraft and a testing site for experimental airplanes. Here, some of the first …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk the British chemist Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994). At the age of 10 she started to display her interest in crystals and she was encouraged to pursue this passion, especially by her mother. Sent to England for her education, Dorothy fought to study science along with the …
28 May 2020 | 18.15 Christer Fuglesang is an astronaut and professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He is responsible for the Aerospace Master program and he teaches a course in Human Spaceflight. Fuglesang is also a Director at the KTH Space Center, wherein he helped initiate a student CubeSat satellite project, MIST. Fuglesang retired from ESA in …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about one of the most amazing animal phenomena from a mathematical point of view: the flight of bees. The physics behind the way bees fly has always been a mystery and a subject of different studies. Until 1990, scientists thought that their wings worked in a similar …
21 May 2020 | 20.00 We are happy to announce the second conference organized by EUROAVIA Forlì-Bologna: a Conference Call on Mars. The speakers will be Pierdomenico Memeo, who completed his PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Insubria and member of the Minerva association, and Kai Growcoot, who graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about our lovely moon. The Moon has been our natural satellite for the past 4.5 billion years, yet we got to know what’s on its other side only recently, with the advent of the space exploration era. But how did a whole 19 million square kilometres elude …
14 May 2020 | 20.00 Have you ever wondered why we do biology and microbiology research in space? 🔬 Or how bacteria behave in zero gravity?Now the time has come to answer these questions, with a brand new event ready for you: the first online conference organised by EUROAVIA Forlì-Bologna. The speaker will be Luis …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about the history of stellar classification and the women who developed it. In 1901, in Harvard, the scientist Edward Charles Pickering assembled a team of women to map and classify the different types of stars. The leader of the team was the astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, who …
7 May 2020 | 21.00 On Thursday the 7th of May, we will host the “Social Night – International Events Edition” meeting. 🔥Here, we will present several international events; what they are and the typical activities that you could experience.🍾🥂 Since some of us have had experience abroad, we will be happy to answer any …