Summary of activites

[Harvinder Atwal]

We haven't had one of these updates in a while on the google group.

First off we have an up and running twitter account, so please look at https://twitter.com/mcrspaceprog for all updates. We also have a whatsapp group which is now used for general discussion, so please get in contact (either at a meeting, email or twitter) if you want adding to that.

As you can see we have dialed down the updates on here, so the above methods are now best methods to keep in contact.

We have also just launched https://twitter.com/msppiggly as part of our outreach to get people interested in the pico and tardigrades we are sending up on our next mission.

We finally have a proper email address : h...@manchesterspaceprogramme.org

Our next mission hopefully launching at the end of the week is going to be carrying two electronic payloads and one biological payload. The two are the RPi with a tried and tested PITS shield, the other is a pico board with a LoRa chip on it. The biological package is a group of tardigrades which will hopefully survive re-entry. These will be going up on a HAB balloon and getting to a height of around 35km.

Also hoping to launch our first rockets at the same launch event.