This year 3rd and 4th grade ESO students have followed the project called “Travel to the end of time”, in which they have made a tour to key moments of human evolution. This program takes place trough a collaboration agreement promoted by the ‘Comunidad de Madrid’, the Spanish Education Ministry and the CEIM Foundation.
From time immemorial, the eagerness to travel has moved mankind to the unknown, and has made them reach unexpected places, sometimes even unexplainable at that time.
In this context, on Saturday the 13th of March, 27 ESO students from the Educational Enrichment Program of the ‘Comunidad de Madrid ... Read More
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14
Apr2010
25
Feb2010
Fuente: Verhaert Space
After the successful completion of the SODI IVIDIL experiment, E-USOC team is already working in the preparation of SODI COLLOID, which will be flown in the ULF4 (Space Shuttle Mission STS-132), and is expected to be finished before mission ULF6 (STS-134), when data drives will be brought back to ground.
From now on, we will be in continuous contact and coordination with the COLLOID Scientific team (User Home Base) from Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), the Payload Developers from Verhaert Space industry and our usual ESA colleagues.
For further information read our complete article about SODI COLLOID experiment.
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03
Feb2010
Source: ESA
Last January 28th, IVIDIL was finally deinstalled, and officially successfully finished. A space experiment, from the operative point of view, is always a great challenge, since so many people from so many different working fields and specialties are involved. The intervention and commitment of quite a big number of actors from the American, Canadian and European space agencies and teams have made possible quick and effective solutions to all issues found during the preparation and execution of this experiment.
E-USOC has lead the task to coordinate scientific team needs and top industry developers knowledge and experience, also ... Read More
28
Nov2009
Since the first system activation of the Microgravity Science Glovebox for SODI-IVIDIL on October 5th, the completion of the whole set of runs with the cell array #1 have been sucessfully performed, including some additional re-runs of the experiment.
Source: NASA
Today, astronaut Bob successfully achieved the SODI-IVIDIL cell array and flash disk exchange activity. After the comissioning, some pictures were taken to check that everything was nominal on the experiment and the optics.
E-USOC team is ready to support operations with this new cell array, whose beginning is scheduled on December 1st. So far, we’re very pleased about the evolution of these ... Read More
24
Nov2009
For second consecutive year, E-USOC has taken part in the Madrid Science Week. This event is held every year during November. The Science Week tries to spread the results of scientific researches by opening the scientific spaces normally closed to visitors. Its main aim is to stimulate the knowledge of science and technology among citizens. It offers more that 500 free activities addressed to all citizens without distinction based on age, gender, level of scientific training, or social category.
Our specific activity consist on a facility tour. On the first part, visitors could attend to a short presentation about E-USOC activity: ... Read More