Success for Stardust at the UK Space Conference
Aeronautics and Astronautics PhD student Clemens Rumpf was successful at the UK Space Conference where he received an award for his work.
The UK Space Conference in July saw PhD student Clemens Rumpf collect the Arthur C Clarke Award for Space Achievement on behalf of the research project, Stardust.
Stardust is a research network that is funded by the European Commission and made up of 15 researchers (11 PhD students and 4 Post Doctoral) from across Europe at different institutions. The researchers are united by the research topic of Space Debris and Asteroids.
The research topics of Stardust vary, from Clemens’ work on software that can predict where on Earth an asteroid can impact, to the removal of space debris objects, a project also pursued by Natalia Ortiz, who is a Stardust researcher at the University.
The project received the Arthur C Clarke Award at the UK Space Conference for excellent accomplishments in education. Clemens was asked to go to Liverpool on behalf of Stardust to receive the award.
Follow Stardust on Twitter at @stardust2013eu to keep up with the project.