By Amila Sandun Basnayaka. Do you believe that we may set up a journey to Mars in 100 days using a nuclear rocket.  Our solar system consists of an average star called the Sun and eight planets without Pluto. This is a really big place not to be travelled by a person. It takes you forever to travel.  But there was one technique back in 1960s developed by a nuclear rocket propulsion. When we were supposed to go for deep space missions, it is mandatory to power a nuclear thermal propulsion. This technology is making progress for potential use on future deep space missions such as Mars mission by 2033. The funding including the mission is $125 million to erect this technology within the agency's space technology programme, compared to an administration request for no funding. If you want to visit Mars using a chemical rocket, you will blast off from Earth and go into low Earth orbit. Then at the right moment, you'd fire your rocket, raising your orbit fro...

By Dilini Ayesha "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”- Christoper Reeve SEDS Sri Lanka is a member of SEDS family. Mainly focus on aviation & aerospace industry conducting several observation camps, awareness sessions and several competitions annually. This time we are teaming up to European Rover Challenge which is co-organized by the European Space Foundation, Mars Society Polska, Starachowice Special Economic Zone and the Kielce  University of Technology. European Rover Challenge (ERC) is targeting enthusiastic innovators all over the world. ERC has become one of the biggest International Robotics events in the world  considering the number of participants. As the 6th edition, ERC2019 is willing to commence with 56 teams from 16 countries all around the world representing 6 continents. Amidst the lack of resources and finances, Sri Lanka...

Let’s Meet with A Sri Lankan  Scientist As the 3rd  event in the series of space talk which are going to happen  2nd of June, 2019 with a Sri lankan student who has been studying his higher education and as a researcher. Maleen Wijerathne who is a Phd candidate and research assistant at Department of Mississippi State University in the topic of ‘Cosmic Rays ’ will be discussing. This  online session is conducting by the students namely Sathika Gunarathne (Faculty of medicine,University of Colombo)  and Thimira Chandrasekara (Faculty of Engineering,Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology)  .All of astro lovers can join with this video session broadcast on SEDS Sri Lanka YouTube channel at 8.30  p.m. onwards.