SPACE ACADEMY LABORATORY

Practical explorations in space and related matters.

DEMONSTRATIONS

EXPERIMENTS

• A Minilab for Exploring Solar Energy

• Building a Software Clock for Mars
• A Simple Solar Radio Spectrograph
• Detecting Radio Emissions from Jupiter
• Simple Observations of Hydrogen Line Radio Emission
• Optical and Radio Observations of the Sun
• Ground and Space Based Observations of Jovian Radio Emission

MODELS & MODELLING

• Ionospheric Absorption
• Satellite Deep Dielectric Discharge
• Simple D-Region Ionisation Model
• Interplanetary Shock Propagation
• Auroral Oval Model
• Solar Proton Prediction Model

TOOLS & INSTRUMENTS

• Riometer (A Relative Ionospheric Opacity Meter)
• Ionosonde

NOTES

• Positional Approximations for the Sun
• Solar Panel Alignment