For our next lecture of our 2024/25 season we have another new speaker to the NIAAS. Gabriel Finneran from UCD will be coming up to give us a talk on the Eirsat Satellite. This lecture will take place on Monday 4th November 2024, starting at 8pm sharp. This will be held in our usual venue of Ballyclare High School Lecture Theatre.
Did you know Ireland has its own satellite, No? Then Come along to this meeting!
About the Talk:
EIRSAT-1 is a 2-U Cubesat designed, built, tested and now being operated by students at UCD, with technical guidance provided by the European Space Agency through the Fly Your Satellite! Programme. Every day, EIRSAT-1 passes over Ireland and the team communicates with it via a radio link. EIRSAT-1 recently celebrated a major achievement in detecting a gamma-ray burst for the first time. This talk will reveal how a team of students learned to build a satellite, and provide an insight into the first year in space, taking you on a journey from launch to daily operations of the first Irish satellite.
About Gabriel:
Gabriel Finneran is a researcher in the Space Science group at University College Dublin’s Centre for Space Research (C-Space). He did his undergraduate degree in astronomy and astrophysics at UCD before embarking on a PhD studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). As part of his PhD he worked on the EIRSAT-1 project, Ireland’s first ever satellite which was launched in December 2023.
I’m really looking forward to this talk, mainly because I watched the Space X launch last week and the whole human space exploration thing is getting really exciting again, to think of how far we have come in so little time, to be using technology we put into space!
I’m sure you will all join me in making Gabriel really welcome to the NIAAS and remember to allow some time for a cup of tea and some friendly chat after the meeting!
See you there!
Philip
