Credit: SpaceUp
Tomorrow, september 22th, for the very first time a SpaceUp Unconference will be held in Europe – in the Cosmodrome in Genk, Belgium! Jan Brandt & I – your truly Astrobloggers – will be there, alive & kicking, to report live and instantaneously what’s going on. Celebrities like Emily Lakdawalla (Planetary Society) and ESA-astronauts Christer Fuglesang and Paoli Nespoli will be present at SpaceUp Europe. Here’s the schedule for this unique weekend!
| Date | Time (CEST) | Event |
|---|---|---|
| September 22th | 08.30 | Jan Brandt & I are being launched in our Berlingo from Space Platform Sagittarius in Dordrecht, The Netherlands |
| September 22th | 10.45 | Arrival and docking at Cosmodrome in Genk/Belgium |
| September 22th | 11.00 | Count down 3, 2, 1, 0... Launch of the first SpaceUp Europe! |
| September 22th | > 11.00 - 15.00 | Start of the program with a lot of 1. 25 minute sessions, 2. Pecha Kucha slots, 3. Ignite talks or T-5. |
| September 22th | > 21.00 | Observing time at the Cosmodrome Observatory (20 cm refractor, focal length 300 cm) |
| September 23th | 11.00 - 15.00 | Day two of the program, with discussions, presentations, etc... |
| September 23th | 15.00 | Undocking Berlingo from Cosmodrome |
| September 23th | 17.30 | Landing of Berlingo capsule in Dordrecht |
During the weekend blogs will be written and video’s will be taken. There’s a live stream from SpaceUp on the Astroblogs, which includes also recorded video’s. For our Dutch and Belgian readers: as you can see, we’ll write our reports about SpaceUp in English. Participants from the unconference are from more than 13 countries and English is the language we use.
