The Astro Pi Challenge is a lot of fun, it’s about space, and so that we in the 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pi team don’t have to miss out despite being adults, many of us mentor their own Astro Pi teams — and you should too!

So, gather your team, stock up on freeze-dried ice cream, and let’s do it again: the European Astro Pi Challenge 2019/2020 launches today!

The European Astro Pi Challenge 2019/2020 is made up of two missions: Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab.

Astro Pi Mission Zero

Mission Zero has been designed for beginners/younger participants up to 14 years old and can be completed in a single session. It’s great for coding clubs or any groups of students don’t have coding 大香伊蕉在人线国产av but still want to do something cool — because having confirmation that code you wrote has run aboard the International Space Station is really, really cool! Teams write a simple Python program to display a message and temperature reading on an Astro Pi computer, for the astronauts to see as they go about their daily tasks on the ISS. No special hardware or prior coding skills are needed, and all teams that follow the challenge rules are guaranteed to have their programs run in space!

Mission Zero eligibility

• Participants must be no older than 14 years
• 2 to 4 people per team
• Participants must be supervised by a teacher, mentor, or educator, who will be the point of contact with the Astro Pi team
• Teams must be made up of at least 50% team members who are citizens of an ESA Member* State, or Slovenia, Canada, or Malta

Astro Pi Mission Space Lab

Mission Space Lab is aimed at more 大香伊蕉在人线国产avd/older participants up to 19 years old, and it takes place in 4 phases over the course of 8 months. The challenge is to design and write a program for a scientific experiment to be run on an Astro Pi computer. The best experiments will be deployed to the ISS, and teams will have the opportunity to analyse and report on their results.

Mission Space Lab eligibility

• Participants must be no older than 19 years
• 2 to 6 people per team
• Participants must be supervised by a teacher, mentor, or educator, who will be the point of contact with the Astro Pi team
• Teams must be made up of at least 50% team members who are citizens of an ESA Member State*, or Slovenia, Canada, or Malta

For both missions, each member of the team has to be at least one of the following:

• Enrolled full-time in a primary or secondary school in an ESA Member State, or Slovenia, Canada, or Malta
• Homeschooled (certified by the National Ministry of Education or delegated authority in an ESA Member State or Slovenia, Canada, or Malta)
• A member of a club or after-school group (such as Code Club, CoderDojo, or Scouts) located in an ESA Member State*, or Slovenia, Canada, or Malta

Take part

To take part in the European Astro Pi Challenge, head over to the Astro Pi website, where you’ll find more information on how to get started getting your team’s code into SPACE!

Obligatory photo of 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pis floating in space!

*ESA Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom

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An Astro Pi takes photos of the earth from the window of the International Space Station

The Challenge has two missions: Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab. The more advanced one, Mission Space Lab, invites teams of students and young people under 19 years of age to enter by submitting an idea for a scientific experiment to be run on the Astro Pi units.

ESA and the 中国熟妇牲交视频 would like to congratulate all the teams that participated in the European Astro Pi Challenge this year. A record-breaking number of more than 15000 people, from all 22 ESA Member States as well as Canada, Slovenia, and Malta, took part in this year’s challenge across both Mission Space Lab and Mission Zero!

Eleven teams have won Mission Space Lab 2018–2019

After designing their own scientific investigations and having their programs run aboard the International Space Station, the Mission Space Lab teams spent their time analysing the data they received back from the ISS. To complete the challenge, they had to write a short scientific report discussing their results and highlighting the conclusions of their experiments. We were very impressed by the quality of the reports, which showed a high level of scientific merit.

We are delighted to announce that, while it was a difficult task, the Astro Pi jury has now selected eleven winning teams, as well as highly commending four additional teams. The eleven winning teams won the chance to join an exclusive video call with ESA astronaut Frank De Winne. He is the head of the European Astronaut Centre in Germany, where astronauts train for their missions. Each team had the once-in-a-lifetime chance to ask Frank about his life as an astronaut.

And the winners are…

Firewatchers from Post CERN HSSIP Group, Portugal, used a machine learning method on their images to identify areas that had recently suffered from wildfires.

Go, 3.141592…, Go! from IES Tomás Navarro Tomás, Spain, took pictures of the Yosemite and Lost River forests and analysed them to study the effects of global drought stress. They did this by using indexes of vegetation and moisture to assess whether forests are healthy and well-preserved.

Les Robotiseurs from Ecole Primaire Publique de Saint-André d’Embrun, France, investigated variations in Earth’s magnetic field between the North and South hemispheres, and between day and night.

TheHappy.Pi from I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Bolesława Krzywoustego w Słupsku, Poland, successfully processed their images to measure the relative chlorophyll concentrations of vegetation on Earth.

AstroRussell from Liceo Bertrand Russell, Italy, developed a clever image processing algorithm to classify images into sea, cloud, ice, and land categories.

Les Puissants 2.0 from Lycee International de Londres Winston Churchill, United Kingdom, used the Astro Pi’s accelerometer to study the motion of the ISS itself under conditions of normal flight and course correction/reboost maneuvers.

Torricelli from ITIS “E.Torricelli”, Italy, recorded images and took sensor measurements to calculate the orbital period and flight speed of the ISS followed by the mass of the Earth using Newton’s universal law of gravitation.

ApplePi from I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Króla Stanisława Leszczyńskiego w Jaśle, Poland, compared their images from Astro Pi Izzy to historical images from 35 years ago and could show that coastlines have changed slightly due to erosion or human impact.

Spacethon from Saint Joseph La Salle Pruillé Le Chétif, France, tested their image-processing algorithm to identify solid, liquid, and gaseous features of exoplanets.

Stithians Rocket Code Club from Stithians CP School, United Kingdom, performed an experiment comparing the temperature aboard the ISS to the average temperature of the nearest country the space station was flying over.

Vytina Aerospace from Primary School of Vytina, Greece, recorded images of reservoirs and lakes on Earth to compare them with historical images from the last 30 years in order to investigate climate change.

Highly commended teams

We also selected four teams to be highly commended, and they will receive a selection of goodies from ESA Education and the 中国熟妇牲交视频:

Aguere Team from IES Marina Cebrián, Spain, investigated variations in the Earth’s magnetic field due to solar activity and a particular disturbance due to a solar coronal hole.

Astroraga from CoderDojo Trento, Italy, measured the magnetic field to investigate whether astronauts can still use a compass, just like on Earth, to orient themselves on the ISS.

Betlemites from Escoles Betlem, Spain, recorded the temperature on the ISS to find out if the pattern of a convection cell is different in microgravity.

Rovel In The Space from Scuola secondaria I grado A.Rosmini ROVELLO PORRO(Como), Italy, executed a program that monitored the pressure and would warn astronauts in case space debris or micrometeoroids collided with the ISS.

The next edition is not far off!

ESA and the 中国熟妇牲交视频 would like to invite all school teachers, students, and young people to join the next edition of the challenge. Make sure to follow updates on the Astro Pi website and Astro Pi Twitter account to look out for the announcement of next year’s Astro Pi Challenge!

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You’re most likely aware of the Astro Pi Challenge. In case you’re not, it’s a wonderfully exciting programme organised by the European Space Agency (ESA) and us at 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pi. Astro Pi challenges European young people to write scientific experiments in code, and the best experiments run aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on two Astro Pi units: 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pi 1 B+ and Sense HATs encased in flight-grade aluminium spacesuits.

It’s very cool. So, so cool. As adults, we’re all extremely jealous that we’re unable to take part. We all love space and, to be honest, we all want to be astronauts. Astronauts are the coolest.

So imagine our excitement at Pi Towers when ESA shared this photo on Friday:

This is a Soyuz vehicle on its way to dock with the International Space Station. And while Soyuz vehicles ferry between earth and the ISS all the time, what’s so special about this occasion is that this very photo was captured using a 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pi 1 B+ and a 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pi Camera Module, together known as Izzy, one of the Astro Pi units!

So if anyone ever asks you whether the 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pi Camera Module is any good, just show them this photo. We don’t think you’ll need to provide any further evidence after that.

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Today, ESA Education and the 中国熟妇牲交视频 are proud to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! In support of this occasion and to encourage young women to enter a career in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), CSA astronaut Jenni Sidey discusses why she believes 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 and digital making skills are so important, and tells us about the role models that inspired her.

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is part of the United Nations’ plan to achieve their 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. According to current UNESCO data, less than 30% of 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频ers in STEM are female and only 30% of young women are selecting STEM-related subjects in higher education

That’s why part of the UN’s 2030 Agenda is to promote full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls. And to help young women and girls develop their 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 and digital making skills, we want to encourage their participation in the European Astro Pi Challenge!

The European Astro Pi Challenge

The European Astro Pi Challenge is an ESA Education programme run in collaboration with the 中国熟妇牲交视频 that offers students and young people the amazing opportunity to conduct scientific investigations in space! The challenge is to write computer programs for one of two Astro Pi units — 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pi computers on board the International Space Station.

Astro Pi’s Mission Zero is open until 20 March 2019, and this mission gives young people up to 14 years of age the chance to write a simple program to display a message to the astronauts on the ISS. No special equipment or prior coding skills are needed, and all participants that follow the mission rules are guaranteed to have their program run in space!

Take part in Mission Zero — in your language!

To help many more people take part in their native language, we’ve translated the Mission Zero resource, guidelines, and web page into 19 different languages! Head to our languages section to find your version of Mission Zero and take part.

If you have any questions regarding the European Astro Pi Challenge, email us at [email protected].

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A brief history of Astro Pi

In 2014, 中国熟妇牲交视频 partnered with the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency to fly two 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pi computers to the International Space Station. These Pis, known as Astro Pis Ed and Izzy, are each equipped with a Sense HAT and Camera Module (IR or Vis) and housed within special space-hardened cases.

In our annual Astro Pi Challenge, young people from all 22 ESA member states have the opportunity to design and code experiments for the Astro Pis to become the next generation of space scientists.

Mission Zero vs Mission Space Lab

Back in September, we announced the 2017/2018 European Astro Pi Challenge, in partnership with the European Space Agency. This year, for the first time, the Astro Pi Challenge comprised two missions: Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab.

Mission Zero is a new entry-level challenge that allows young coders to have their message displayed to the astronauts on-board the ISS. It finished up in February, with more than 5400 young people in over 2500 teams taking part!

For Mission Space Lab, young people work like real scientists by designing their own experiment to investigate one of two topics:

Life in space

For this topic, young coders write code to run on Astro Pi Vis (Ed) in the Columbus module to investigate life aboard the ISS.

Life on Earth

For this topic, young people design a code experiment to run on Astro Pi IR (Izzy), aimed towards the Earth through a window, to investigate life down on our planet.

Our participants

We had more than 1400 students across 330 teams take part in this year’s Mission Space Lab. Teams who submitted an eligible idea for an experiment received an Astro Pi kit from ESA to develop their Python code. These kits contain the same hardware that’s aboard the ISS, enabling students to test their experiments in conditions similar to those on the space station. The best experiments were granted flight status earlier this year, and the code of these teams ran on the ISS in April.

And the winners are…

The teams received the results of their experiments and were asked to submit scientific reports based on their findings. Just a few weeks ago, 98 teams sent us brilliant reports, and we had the difficult task of whittling the pool of teams down to find the final ten winners!

As you can see in the video above, the winning teams were lucky enough to take part in a very special video conference with ESA Astronaut Tim Peake.

2017/18 Mission Space Lab winning teams

The Dark Side of Light from Branksome Hall, Canada, investigated whether the light pollution in an area could be used to determine the source of energy for the electricity consumption.

Spaceballs from Attert Lycée Redange, Luxembourg, successfully calculated the speed of the ISS by analysing ground photographs.

Enrico Fermi from Liceo XXV Aprile, Italy, investigated the link between the Astro Pi’s magnetometer and X-ray measurements from the GOES-15 satellite.

Team Aurora from Hyvinkään yhteiskoulun lukio, Finland, showed how the Astro Pi’s magnetometer could be used to map the Earth’s magnetic field and determine the latitude of the ISS.

@stroMega from Institut de Genech, France, used Astro Pi Izzy’s near-infrared Camera Module to measure the health and density of vegetation on Earth.

Ursa Major from a CoderDojo in Belgium created a program to autonomously measure the percentage of vegetation, water, and clouds in photographs from Astro Pi Izzy.

Canarias 1 from IES El Calero, Spain, built on existing data and successfully determined whether the ISS was eclipsed from on-board sensor data.

The Earth Watchers from S.T.E.M Robotics Academy, Greece, used Astro Pi Izzy to compare the health of vegetation in Quebec, Canada, and Guam.

Trentini DOP from CoderDojo Trento, Italy, investigated the stability of the on-board conditions of the ISS and whether or not they were effected by eclipsing.

Team Lampone from CoderDojo Trento, Italy, accurately measured the speed of the ISS by analysing ground photographs taken by Astro Pi Izzy.

Well done to everyone who took part, and massive congratulations to all the winners!

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We are very excited to announce that Astro Pi upgrades are on their way to the International Space Station! Back in September, we blogged about a small payload being launched to the International Space Station to upgrade the capabilities of our Astro Pi units.

Sneak peek

For the longest time, the payload was scheduled to be launched on SpaceX CRS 14 in February. However, the launch was delayed to April and so impacted the flight operations we have planned for running Mission Space Lab student experiments.

To avoid this, ESA had the payload transferred to Russian Soyuz MS-08 (54S), which is launching today to carry crew members Oleg Artemyev, Andrew Feustel, and Ricky Arnold to the ISS.

L-47 hours. pic.twitter.com/1bVAAAhUuF

— Ricky Arnold (@astro_ricky) March 19, 2018

You can watch coverage of the launch on NASA TV from 4.30pm GMT this afternoon, with the launch scheduled for 5.44pm GMT. Check the NASA TV schedule for updates.

The upgrades

The pictures below show the flight hardware in its final configuration before loading onto the launch vehicle.

All access

With the wireless dongle, the Astro Pi units can be deployed in ISS locations other than the Columbus module, where they don’t have access to an Ethernet switch.

We are also sending some flexible optical filters. These are made from the same material as the blue square which is shipped with the 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pi NoIR Camera Module.

#bluefilter

So that future Astro Pi code will need to command fewer windows to download earth observation imagery to the ground, we’re also including some 32GB micro SD cards to replace the current 8GB cards.

More space in space

Tthe items above are enclosed in a large 8″ ziplock bag that has been designated the “AstroPi Kit”.

It’s ziplock bags all the way down up

Once the Soyuz docks with the ISS, this payload is one of the first which will be unpacked, so that the Astro Pi units can be upgraded and deployed ready to run your experiments!

More Astro Pi

Stay tuned for our next update in April, when student code is set to be run on the Astro Pi units as part of our Mission Space Lab programme. And to find out more about Astro Pi, head to the programme website.

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Submissions for the Mission Space Lab challenge have just closed, and the results are in! Students had the opportunity to design an experiment for one of the following two themes:

• Life in space
  Making use of Astro Pi Vis (Ed) in the European Columbus module to learn about the conditions inside the ISS.
• Life on Earth
  Making use of Astro Pi IR (Izzy), which will be aimed towards the Earth through a window to learn about Earth from space.

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, speaking from the replica of the Columbus module at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, has a message for all Mission Space Lab participants:

Flight status

We had a total of 212 Mission Space Lab entries from 22 countries. Of these, a 114 fantastic projects have been given flight status, and the teams’ project code will run in space!

But they’re not winners yet. In April, the code will be sent to the ISS, and then the teams will receive back their experimental data. Next, to get deeper insight into the process of scientific endeavour, they will need produce a final report analysing their findings. Winners will be chosen based on the merit of their final report, and the winning teams will get exclusive prizes. Check the list below to see if your team got flight status.

Belgium

Flight status achieved:

• Team De Vesten, Campus De Vesten, Antwerpen
• Ursa Major, CoderDojo Belgium, West-Vlaanderen
• Special operations STEM, Sint-Claracollege, Antwerpen

Canada

Flight status achieved:

• Let It Grow, Branksome Hall, Toronto
• The Dark Side of Light, Branksome Hall, Toronto
• Genie On The ISS, Branksome Hall, Toronto
• Byte by PIthons, Youth Tech Education Society & Kid Code Jeunesse, Edmonton
• The Broadviewnauts, Broadview, Ottawa

Czech Republic

Flight status achieved:

• BLEK, Střední Odborná Škola Blatná, Strakonice

Denmark

Flight status achieved:

• 2y Infotek, Nærum Gymnasium, Nærum
• Equation Quotation, Allerød Gymnasium, Lillerød
• Team Weather Watchers, Allerød Gymnasium, Allerød
• Space Gardners, Nærum Gymnasium, Nærum

Finland

Flight status achieved:

• Team Aurora, Hyvinkään yhteiskoulun lukio, Hyvinkää

France

Flight status achieved:

• INC2, Lycée Raoul Follereau, Bourgogne
• Space Project SP4, Lycée Saint-Paul IV, Reunion Island
• Dresseurs2Python, clg Albert CAMUS, essonne
• Lazos, Lycée Aux Lazaristes, Rhone
• The space nerds, Lycée Saint André Colmar, Alsace
• Les Spationautes Valériquais, lycée de la Côte d’Albâtre, Normandie
• AstroMega, Institut de Genech, north
• Al’Crew, Lycée Algoud-Laffemas, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
• AstroPython, clg Albert CAMUS, essonne
• Aruden Corp, Lycée Pablo Neruda, Normandie
• HeroSpace, clg Albert CAMUS, essonne
• GalaXess [R]evolution, Lycée Saint Cricq, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
• AstroBerry, clg Albert CAMUS, essonne
• Ambitious Girls, Lycée Adam de Craponne, PACA

Germany

Flight status achieved:

• Uschis, St. Ursula Gymnasium Freiburg im Breisgau, Breisgau
• Dosi-Pi, Max-Born-Gymnasium Germering, Bavaria

Greece

Flight status achieved:

• Deep Space Pi, 1o Epal Grevenon, Grevena
• Flox Team, 1st Lyceum of Kifissia, Attiki
• Kalamaria Space Team, Second Lyceum of Kalamaria, Central Macedonia
• The Earth Watchers, STEM Robotics Academy, Thessaly
• Celestial_Distance, Gymnasium of Kanithos, Sterea Ellada – Evia
• Pi Stars, Primary School of Rododaphne, Achaias
• Flarions, 5th Primary School of Salamina, Attica

Ireland

Flight status achieved:

• Plant Parade, Templeogue College, Leinster
• For Peats Sake, Templeogue College, Leinster
• CoderDojo Clonakilty, Co. Cork

Italy

Flight status achieved:

• Trentini DOP, CoderDojo Trento, TN
• Tarantino Space Lab, Liceo G. Tarantino, BA
• Murgia Sky Lab, Liceo G. Tarantino, BA
• Enrico Fermi, Liceo XXV Aprile, Veneto
• Team Lampone, CoderDojoTrento, TN
• GCC, Gali Code Club, Trentino Alto Adige/Südtirol
• Another Earth, IISS “Laporta/Falcone-Borsellino”
• Anti Pollution Team, IIS “L. Einaudi”, Sicily
• e-HAND, Liceo Statale Scientifico e Classico ‘Ettore Majorana’, Lombardia
• scossa team, ITTS Volterra, Venezia
• Space Comet Sisters, Scuola don Bosco, Torino

Luxembourg

Flight status achieved:

• Spaceballs, Atert Lycée Rédange, Diekirch
• Aline in space, Lycée Aline Mayrisch Luxembourg (LAML)

Poland

Flight status achieved:

• AstroLeszczynPi, I Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Krola Stanislawa Leszczynskiego w Jasle, podkarpackie
• Astrokompasy, High School nr XVII in Wrocław named after Agnieszka Osiecka, Lower Silesian
• Cosmic Investigators, Publiczna Szkoła Podstawowa im. Św. Jadwigi Królowej w Rzezawie, Małopolska
• ApplePi, III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. prof. T. Kotarbińskiego w Zielonej Górze, Lubusz Voivodeship
• ELE Society 2, Zespol Szkol Elektronicznych i Samochodowych, Lubuskie
• ELE Society 1, Zespol Szkol Elektronicznych i Samochodowych, Lubuskie
• SpaceOn, Szkola Podstawowa nr 12 w Jasle – Gimnazjum Nr 2, Podkarpackie
• Dewnald Ducks, III Liceum Ogólnokształcące w Zielonej Górze, lubuskie
• Nova Team, III Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. prof. T. Kotarbinskiego, lubuskie district
• The Moons, Szkola Podstawowa nr 12 w Jasle – Gimnazjum Nr 2, Podkarpackie
• Live, Szkoła Podstawowa nr 1 im. Tadeusza Kościuszki w Zawierciu, śląskie
• Storm Hunters, I Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Krola Stanislawa Leszczynskiego w Jasle, podkarpackie
• DeepSky, Szkoła Podstawowa nr 1 im. Tadeusza Kościuszki w Zawierciu, śląskie
• Small Explorers, ZPO Konina, Malopolska
• AstroZSCL, Zespół Szkół w Czerwionce-Leszczynach, śląskie
• Orchestra, Szkola Podstawowa nr 12 w Jasle, Podkarpackie
• ApplePi, I Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Krola Stanislawa Leszczynskiego w Jasle, podkarpackie
• Green Crew, Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 w Czeladzi, Silesia

Portugal

Flight status achieved:

• Magnetics, Escola Secundária João de Deus, Faro
• ECA_QUEIROS_PI, Secondary School Eça de Queirós, Lisboa
• ESDMM Pi, Escola Secundária D. Manuel Martins, Setúbal
• AstroPhysicists, EB 2,3 D. Afonso Henriques, Braga

Romania

Flight status achieved:

• Caelus, “Tudor Vianu” National High School of Computer Science, District One
• CodeWarriors, “Tudor Vianu” National High School of Computer Science, District One
• Dark Phoenix, “Tudor Vianu” National High School of Computer Science, District One
• ShootingStars, “Tudor Vianu” National High School of Computer Science, District One
• Astro Pi Carmen Sylva 2, Liceul Teoretic “Carmen Sylva”, Constanta
• Astro Meridian, Astro Club Meridian 0, Bihor

Slovenia

Flight status achieved:

• astrOSRence, OS Rence
• Jakopičevca, Osnovna šola Riharda Jakopiča, Ljubljana

Spain

Flight status achieved:

• Exea in Orbit, IES Cinco Villas, Zaragoza
• Valdespartans, IES Valdespartera, Zaragoza
• Valdespartans2, IES Valdespartera, Zaragoza
• Astropithecus, Institut de Bruguers, Barcelona
• SkyPi-line, Colegio Corazón de María, Asturias
• ClimSOLatic, Colegio Corazón de María, Asturias
• Científicosdelsaz, IES Profesor Pablo del Saz, Málaga
• Canarias 2, IES El Calero, Las Palmas
• Dreamers, M. Peleteiro, A Coruña
• Canarias 1, IES El Calero, Las Palmas

The Netherlands

Flight status achieved:

• Team Kaki-FM, Rkbs De Reiger, Noord-Holland

United Kingdom

Flight status achieved:

• Binco, Teignmouth Community School, Devon
• 2200 (Saddleworth), Detached Flight Royal Air Force Air Cadets, Lancashire
• Whatevernext, Albyn School, Highlands
• GraviTeam, Limehurst Academy, Leicestershire
• LSA Digital Leaders, Lytham St Annes Technology and Performing Arts College, Lancashire
• Mead Astronauts, Mead Community Primary School, Wiltshire
• STEAMCademy, Castlewood Primary School, West Sussex
• Lux Quest, CoderDojo Banbridge, Co. Down
• Temparatus, Dyffryn Taf, Carmarthenshire
• Discovery STEMers, Discovery STEM Education, South Yorkshire
• Code Inverness, Code Club Inverness, Highland
• JJB, Ashton Sixth Form College, Tameside
• Astro Lab, East Kent College, Kent
• The Life Savers, Scratch and Python, Middlesex
• JAAPiT, Taylor Household, Nottingham
• The Heat Guys, The Archer Academy, Greater London
• Astro Wantenauts, Wantage C of E Primary School, Oxfordshire
• Derby Radio Museum, Radio Communication Museum of Great Britain, Derbyshire
• Bytesyze, King’s College School, Cambridgeshire
• Bermy berries, The Bermuda High School, Pembroke
• Portsmouth High School Team, Portsmouth High School, Hampshire

Other

Flight status achieved:

• Intellectual Savage Stars, Lycée français de Luanda, Luanda

Congratulations to all successful teams! We are looking forward to reading your reports.

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Left: Astro Pi Vis (Ed); right: Astro Pi IR (Izzy). Image credit: ESA.

The European Columbus module

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of the European Columbus module. The Columbus module is the European Space Agency’s largest single contribution to the ISS, and it supports 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 in many scientific disciplines, from astrobiology and solar science to metallurgy and psychology. More than 225 experiments have been carried out inside it during the past decade. It’s also home to our Astro Pi computers.

Here’s a video from 7 February 2008, when Space Shuttle Atlantis went skywards carrying the Columbus module in its cargo bay.

Today, coincidentally, is also the deadline for the European Astro Pi Challenge: Mission Space Lab. Participating teams have until midnight tonight to submit their experiments.

Anniversary celebrations

At 16:30 GMT today there will be a live event on NASA TV for the Columbus module anniversary with NASA flight engineers Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei.

Our Astro Pi computers will be joining in the celebrations by displaying a digital birthday candle that the crew can blow out. It works by detecting an increase in humidity when someone blows on it. The video below demonstrates the concept.

Do try this at home

The exact Astro Pi code that will run on the ISS today is available for you to download and run on your own 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pi and Sense HAT. You’ll notice that the program includes code to make it stop automatically when the date changes to 8 February. This is just to save time for the ground control team.

If you have a 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pi and a Sense HAT, you can use the terminal commands below to download and run the code yourself:

wget http://rpf.io/colbday -O birthday.py
chmod +x birthday.py
./birthday.py

When you see a blank blue screen with the brightness increasing, the Sense HAT is measuring the baseline humidity. It does this every 15 minutes so it can recalibrate to take account of natural changes in background humidity. A humidity increase of 2% is needed to blow out the candle, so if the background humidity changes by more than 2% in 15 minutes, it’s possible to get a false positive. Press Ctrl + C to quit.

Please tweet pictures of your candles to @astro_pi – we might share yours! And if we’re lucky, we might catch a glimpse of the candle on the ISS during the NASA TV event at 16:30 GMT today.

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Every school year, we run the European Astro Pi challenge to find the next generation of space scientists who will program two space-hardened 大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频 Pi units, called Astro Pis, living aboard the International Space Station.

Italian ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli with the Astro Pi units. Image credit ESA.

Astro Pi Mission Zero

The 2017–2018 challenge included the brand-new non-competitive Mission Zero, which guaranteed that participants could have their code run on the ISS for 30 seconds, provided they followed the rules. They would also get a certificate showing the exact time period during which their code ran in space.

We asked participants to write a simple Python program to display a personalised message and the air temperature on the Astro Pi screen. No special hardware was needed, since all the code could be written in a web browser using the Sense HAT emulator developed in partnership with Trinket.

Students coding #astropi emulator to scroll a message to astronauts on @大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频_Pi in space this summer. Try it here: https://t.co/0KURq11X0L #Rm9Parents #CSforAll #ontariocodes pic.twitter.com/LL4s9HhbFM

— Scott McKenzie (@ScottMcKenzie27) November 22, 2017

And now it’s time…

We received over 2500 entries for Mission Zero, and we’re excited to announce that tomorrow all entries with flight status will be run on the ISS…in SPAAACE!

There are 1771 Python programs with flight status, which will run back-to-back on Astro Pi VIS (Ed). The whole process will take about 14 hours. This means that everyone will get a timestamp showing 1 February, so we’re going to call this day Mission Zero Day!

Part of each team’s certificate will be a map, like the one below, showing the exact location of the ISS while the team’s code was running.

The grey line is the ISS orbital path, the red marker shows the ISS’s location when their code was running. Produced using Google Static Maps API.

The programs will be run in the same sequence in which we received them. For operational reasons, we can’t guarantee that they will run while the ISS flies over any particular location. However, if you have submitted an entry to Mission Zero, there is a chance that your code will run while the ISS is right overhead!

Go out and spot the station

Spotting the ISS is a great activity to do by yourself or with your students. The station looks like a very fast-moving star that crosses the sky in just a few minutes. If you know when and where to look, and it’s not cloudy, you literally can’t miss it.

Source Andreas Möller, Wikimedia Commons.

The ISS passes over most ground locations about twice a day. For it to be clearly visible though, you need darkness on the ground with sunlight on the ISS due to its altitude. There are a number of websites which can tell you when these visible passes occur, such as NASA’s Spot the Station. Each of the sites requires you to give your location so it can work out when visible passes will occur near you.

Visible ISS pass star chart from Heavens Above, on which familiar constellations such as the Plough (see label Ursa Major) can be seen.

A personal favourite of mine is Heavens Above. It’s slightly more fiddly to use than other sites, but it produces brilliant star charts that show you precisely where to look in the sky. This is how it works:

1. Go to www.heavens-above.com
2. To set your location, click on Unspecified in the top right-hand corner
3. Enter your location (e.g. Cambridge, United Kingdom) into the text box and click Search
4. The map should change to the correct location — scroll down and click Update
5. You’ll be taken back to the homepage, but with your location showing at the top right
6. Click on ISS in the Satellites section
   
7. A table of dates will now show, which are the upcoming visible passes for your location
8. Click on a row to view the star chart for that pass — the line is the path of the ISS, and the arrow shows direction of travel
9. Be outside in cloudless weather at the start time, look towards the direction where the line begins, and hope the skies stay clear

If you go out and do this, then tweet some pictures to @大香焦+伊人综合+在线视频_pi, @astro_pi, and @esa. Good luck!

More Astro Pi

Mission Zero certificates will be arriving in participants’ inboxes shortly. We would like to thank everyone who participated in Mission Zero this school year, and we hope that next time you’ll take it one step further and try Mission Space Lab.

Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab are two really exciting programmes that young people of all ages can take part in. If you would like to be notified when the next round of Astro Pi opens for registrations, sign up to our mailing list here.

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Astro Pi is an annual science and coding challenge where student-written code is run on the International Space Station under the oversight of an ESA astronaut. It is open to students from all 22 ESA member countries, including — for the first time — associate members Canada and Slovenia.

This year’s challenge includes a brand-new non-competitive mission, in which participants are guaranteed to have their code run on the ISS for 30 seconds!

Mission Zero

For teachers and students who are keen to take part but who don’t have the capacity to carry out an in-depth project, we wanted to provide an accessible activity that teams can complete in just one session.

So we came up with Mission Zero for young people no older than 14. To complete it, form a team of two to four people and use our step-by-step guide to help you write a simple Python program that shows your personal message and the ambient temperature on the Astro Pi. If you adhere to a few rules, your code is guaranteed to run in space for 30 seconds, and you’ll receive a certificate showing the exact time period during which your code has run in space. No special hardware is needed for this mission, since everything is done in a web browser.

Mission Zero is open until 26 November 2017! Find out more.

Mission Space Lab

Students aged up to 19 can take part in Mission Space Lab. Form a team of two to six people, and work like real space scientists to design your own experiment. Receive free kit to work with, and write the Python code to carry out your experiment.

There are two themes for Mission Space Lab teams to choose from for their projects:

• Life in space
  You will make use of Astro Pi Vis (“Ed”) in the European Columbus module. You can use all of its sensors, but you cannot record images or videos.
• Life on Earth
  You will make use of Astro Pi IR (“Izzy”), which will be aimed towards the Earth through a window. You can use all of its sensors and its camera.

The Astro Pi kit, delivered to Space Lab teams by ESA

If you achieve flight status, your code will be uploaded to the ISS and run for three hours (two orbits). All the data that your code records in space will be downloaded and returned to you for analysis. Then submit a short report on your findings to be in with a chance to win exclusive, money-can’t-buy prizes! You can also submit your project for a Bronze CREST Award.

Mission Space Lab registration is open until 29 October 2017, and accepted teams will continue to spring 2018. Find out more.

How do I get started?

There are loads of materials available that will help you begin your Astro Pi journey — check out the Getting started with the Sense HAT resource and this video explaining how to build the flight case.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please post them in the comments below. We’re standing by to answer them!

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