On 26 September, at 5 p.m. in Bucharest, Tineretului Park, Șincai entry, the Space Science Institute’s researchers await for you at the Researchers’ Night 2014 to start together the adventure in the world of science.
Here are the areas and activities that you can experience at the ISS booth, coordinated by researchers willling to share with the public years of experience:
On 26 September, the Researchers’ Night invites all the curious to take part in a trip to the fascinating world of science. Researchers, engineers, explorers and inventors will be meeting with you in the campuses or downtown areas of the following cities: Bucharest, Iasi, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Constanta, Craiova, Galati, Brasov, Suceava, Bacau, Arad, Sibiu, Piatra Neamt, Tulcea, Oradea and Targu Jiu. Together with them you will take part in unique experiments, exciting conferences and contests with attractive prizes. The program for each city can be found on www.noapteacercetatorilor.eu.
On 14 May 1981, at 17:16:38 UTC, the Soyuz-40 mission was launched, taking on board the first Romanian cosmonaut, Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu. The mission was part of the Intercosmos program and lasted 7 days, 20 hours, 41 minutes, 52 seconds. On 15 May, Soyuz-40 docked on Salyut-6 space station. Altogether, the crew orbited the Earth 124 times, while the Romanian cosmonaut was studying the Earth’s magnetic field. There were also studies on the station’s guidance system and Earth observation studies over the territory of Romania.
(article taken from www.rosa.ro)
The Institute of Space Science (ISS) invites you to explore the solar system from home, using your computer. Using the ExpoSol program (Interactive Exploration of the Solar System) you wll be able to study the eight planets of our solar system, Pluto, the dwarf planet, and the Sun.
The Magurele Physics Platform is opening today its doors for a „Scoala Altfel” week. Students and their teachers will visit the Platform’s research institutes and the Faculty of Physics to learn science from the researchers using interactive methods, presentations and guided tours.
On March 13, 2014, Romania was officially accepted as a full member state in the „Pierre Auger Observatory” international collaboration. Spread over an area of 3000 km2 in Argentina, Auger is the largest cosmic radiation experiment in the world. The collaboration allows the Romanian researchers to contribute to discerning the mysteries of ultra-high energies cosmic rays.
Between 14 and 18 October 2013, the Institute of Space Science (ISS) hosted the „Detection of nuclear emulsions and their future workshop”. The event, held in Predeal, Romania, was organized in collaboration with the Lebedev Physics Institute (Moscow, Russia), Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia), Institute Dosimetry (Prague, Czech Republic) and Safarik University (Kosice, Slovakia) .
RoBiSAT is the name of the Institute of Space Science’s mission that aims to develop and verify the critical technologies necessary for the nanosatellites formation flight. A specific characteristic of this initiative is the study of the technological solutions for obtaining radio communications for data exchange and commands between two identical satellites located on low-Earth orbit.
The „Physics World” magazine, published by one of the largest physics societies in the world, awarded the researchers working at the ESA’s Planck mission, with the „Top 10 Breakthrough of the Year 2013” distinction for the most precise measurement of the background cosmic microwave.
On November 29, 2013, the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) has signed the multilateral agreement for the Euclid mission during the European Space Agency (ESA) Scientific Programme Committee, held in Paris. Scheduled for launch in 2020, the Euclid mission will map the shape, brightness and 3D distribution of two billion galaxies, aiming to identify the role of matter and dark energy in the evolution and expansion of the universe.