FELLOWS, AWARDEES AND ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS
Space technologies continue to be integrated seamlessly into our lives: high bandwidth global telecommunications, Earth imaging for environmental monitoring and satellite navigation services.
This talk will explore a range of emerging technologies which could enable new space services including; swarms of ‘smart dust’ devices to monitor the space environment; in-orbit fabrication of large space structures; ultra-lightweight orbiting solar reflectors to reflect sunlight onto terrestrial solar power farms to boost their output; near Earth asteroids as a resource to reduce the scale of future space ventures by utilising material already at the top of the Earth’s deep gravity well.
Programme*
| 11.50am | Zoom webinar opens |
| 12.00pm |
Welcome and introduction by the Chair Professor Constantinos Soutis FREng, Chair of Aerospace Engineering and Director of Aerospace Research Institute, University of Manchester |
| 12.05pm |
From 'smart dust' monitoring to energy from space - what are the next innovative advances in space technology? Professor Colin McInnes MBE FREng FRSE, Professor of Engineering Science, University of Glasgow |
| 12.30pm | Q&A session |
| 12.55pm |
Closing remarks by the Chair Professor Constantinos Soutis FREng |
| 1.00pm | Close |
*programme subject to change
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Professor Colin McInnes MBE FREng FRSE
