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CSO has released the fifth edition of a comprehensive english bochure on space activities in the Czech Republic, which is annually distributed to the visitors at the International Astronautical Congress, IAC and during other occasions with a foreign audience.
In the project the prototype of the GTR51 device for comparison of time scales was developed. The device uses sinals of satellite navigation systems GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO and SBAS.
Explore. Get to know. Change the world. These are the words, connecting all the high school participants of scientific and engineering competitions. Each year, millions of them in more than seven dozen countries around the world gets involved. A nineteen year old Marek Novák was one of them.
The annual report describes the activities and results of the Czech Space Office in 2013. In this period, the activities of CSO projects were funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports in the field of international cooperation in research and development EUPRO II and in the Operational Programme Education for Competitiveness.
In June this year, the Czech student team from Prague Electroengineering High School in Ječná street took part in the fourth European competition in the construction and launch of functional CanSats. Of the more than 50 high shool teams from all over Europe, the nine best got to the final round.
The digital slit sun sensor (DSSS) measures the position of the Sun with respect to its axes. It overcomes the disadvantages of the sun sensors used in the past, e.g. on Magion satellites, that were analogue cosine law sensors.This sensor mainly consists from COTS and industrial components and is therefore relatively cheap.
Forty visitors of the international trade Amper 2014 gathered at a specialized seminar organized by Czech Space Office in cooperation with CzechInvest and ICT Alliance. The audience consisted mainly of representatives of ICT companies. CSO informed about opportunities in European space programmes focusing on telecommunications and navigation.
On 22 April 2014, the nonprofit organization Suitcase Science (Věda z kufru) opened its new Student science center in Prague, the first of its kind in the Czech Republic. Center's activities are based on eduction of students in natural sciences by student teachers of the same age.
UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space adopted the conclusions of an international workshop on human space flight and Solar System exploration. CSO presented the status of relevant research in the Czech Republic and participated in the formulation of recommendations of the working group on research in microgravity conditions.
CSO, in collaboration with the Faculty of Electrical Engeneering, CTU (Czech Technical University) in Prague, organized a seminar on small satellites on March 4, which convened the presentation of the state to solve their project teams that work in the Czech Republic on cubesate preparation.