Judging the winners of the UK Heat of the International Astronautical Congress (IAC)
The International Astronautical Congress (IAC), is one of the world’s largest space conferences taking place each year. For 2023, the IAC is taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan. Each year, there is a student paper competition with an undergraduate student and a postgraduate student selected to represent the UK. This selection is carried out jointly by the British Interplanetary Society and the IET’s Satellite Network. For this year, Yun-Hang Cho from the IET Satellite Network helped to judge the UK selection process. 11 undergraduate abstracts and 5 postgraduate abstracts were reviewed based on their relevance to important space issues, technical quality, and clarity of writing. From these, 3 undergraduate and 2 postgraduate entries were selected to give a 10-15minute presentation. The topics…