The story is in all the papers, but it began here on this blogsite! Hats off to Observatory member and Astronomy GCSE student Luke Bussell for winning the SHA essay prize AND securing a programming role in the British Interplanetary Society's KickSAT mission.
With luck, we'll be able to source some funding to get going on a project to build a ground-station here at Bootham so that we can communicate with the microsat networks that KickSAT will launch into orbit. I had always hoped that Bootham might become a part of the space programme, but I never thought it would be so soon!
