SATLAB day 3

This morning started with a presentation from Dr. Telesco, the chair of the astronomy department at UF. He's been here awhile and worked on lots of instruments that have been on lots of telescopes. His new passion he shared with us is small satellites - cubesats. 

Prototype cubesat

It has a telescope in the bottom!

Then we headed back down to the astronomy lab. Jim showed us how to use the software to plan our flight. It uses wind data to predict where our weather balloon will land when it launches. We tried launching from our school's courtyard, magic kingdom, lots of other orlando places and the space coast (where we'll actually be launching from) just to see what happens. The software is free and it's really cool! 

Learning about the flight prediction software. 

Our next stop was the planetarium at Santa Fe community college. We got to watch a movie called Extreme Planets and see a planetarium show. 

We had dinner tonight with the team from Spain which was really cool because we haven't really had a lot of time with them yet. The students really had fun talking about what being in the IB program is like in the US and in Spain. Our team then went to get frozen custard (and we laughed a whole lot). 

Frozen custard is REALLY good. 

That's all for today! Tomorrow we're off to tour Whitney Labs and see St. Augustine :)