The West Midlands Branch Presents Green Propulsion By Mathias Persson Speaker: Mathias Persson Date: Saturday 20th February 2021 Start Time: 14:00 End Time: 15:15 Venue: via Zoom Talk Description – Check back for updates soon! Meeting Timetable • 13:55 – The meeting is available to join • 14:00 – Welcome • 14:05 – Green […]

The West Midlands Branch Presents Missions with the Scorpion By Mark Hempsell Speaker: Mark Hempsell Date: Saturday 20th March 2021 Start Time: 14:00 End Time: 15:15 Venue: Via Zoom Scorpion is a result of study into a large general purpose nuclear powered spacecraft that can be built and support by the Skylon spaceplane. […]

The West Midlands Branch Presents Skyrora launch vehicle development By Robin Hague Speaker: Robin Hague Date: Saturday 17th April 2021 Start Time: 14:00 End Time: 15:15 Venue: Via Zoom Skyrora were founded in Edinburgh in 2017, and are currently developing a new small launch vehicle to provide commercial launch from the prospective British […]

The West Midlands Branch Presents Building the UK’s first Commercial Vertical Spaceport by Scott Hammond Speaker: Scott Hammond Date: Saturday 8th May 2021 Start Time: 14:00 End Time: 15:15 Venue: Via Zoom Speaker – Scott Hammond Building the UK’s first Commercial Vertical Spaceport Shetland Space Centre (SSC) is based on the island of Unst, […]

The West Midlands Branch Presents A Simple Combined Cycle Engine by Lucas Beveridge Speaker: Lucas Beveridge Date: Saturday 5th June 2021 Start Time: 17:00 End Time: 18:15 Venue: Via Zoom A simple combined cycle engine incorporating features of both solid-fuel ramjets, and hybrid propellant rockets was examined for use in a single-stage launch vehicle, and […]

The West Midlands Branch Presents Additive Manufacture of Rocket Engine Combustion Chambers by Amelia Stanton Speaker: Amelia Stanton Date: Saturday 31st July 2021 Start Time: 14:00 End Time: 15:15 Venue: via Zoom Additive Manufacturing can engineer combustion chambers with integrated functions in less time and at lower cost than traditional manufacturing methods. Amelia […]