Aleksander Lidtke
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This blog is mainly intended to write about my research. So if that's the sort of information that you, dear reader, are after you've come to the right place. I may give way to my epoistolographic needs sometimes, however, so be prepared.

Researching for ESA

1/7/2015

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A consortium led by the University of Southampton has won a bid for doing research on predicting the re-entry of spent upper rocket stages. The activity is funded by the European Space Operations Centre, part of the European Space Agency. 
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I'm very happy to be part of the team; especially because I've temporarily moved to Spain to work with other colleagues.
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How to make Python (even more) fun

7/4/2015

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I was browsing the Global Trajectory Competition portal looking for some slides for work in the morning and came across a way of making XKCD-style images in Python. I used to love and use Python a lot, even for fun, anyway. But now it's even more fun!

This will correlate well with how much time I'll spend writing Python scripts for the hell of it.
I used spend a lot of time doing Python for fun anyway. But now... And I learned a few useful things in the process.
I wonder how my PhD thesis committee will react when they see a thesis with this type of plots in it.
If you want the source code that reproduces this plot it's on my GitHub. In the same repository you can get a high-res version of the plot (I can't believe I actually pay them to host this and can't seem to upload high-res images).
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29th  AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium

27/7/2014

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I gave a talk at a symposium organised AMSAT-UK - the UK part  of a world-wide organisation of radio enthusiasts that build and operate amateur satellites. The talk was about the programme that my colleague and I are spearheading at the University of Southampton that aims to build and fly a CubeSat, hopefully in the next few years.
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I felt I'd sparked a lot of interest with UoS3 (University of Southampton Small Satellite) that is a continuation of my final-year project, BLAST. Hopefully, with many more students that will be working on it next academic year and the increasing number of volunteers in the team we will have a lot more to report during next year's AMSAT-UK colloquium!

The colloquium itself was a fascinating event - it was great to see that building a satellite with a team of enthusiasts is perfectly achievable. And we were privileged (and absolutely astonished) to be able to see a live stream of telemetry from ISEE-3 that was being captured by AMSAT-DL team using the Bochum antenna! Simply mindblowing.
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Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition

29/5/2014

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Myself, two lecturers and a fellow PhD student from the University of Southampton formed a mixed team with some lecturers from Politecnio di Milano to take part in the 7th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition (GTOC). It's an annual event that gets together world-class specialists. We have a month (now much less...) to solve a very difficult global optimisation problem that has been set by the last year's winners, currently Universita di Roma "Sapienza". I must admit that they outdid themselves in finding what appears to be a simply unsolvable riddle. But I like challenges and spacecraft trajectory optimisation, so one way or another I'm happy to be participating.
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    Until recently, I have been doing a doctorate at the University of Southampton. Thus, a lot of this blog is mainly about my research that I did there. If you want to find out more about myself instead, please have a read.

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