The first donkey in outer space! On June 10th, 2017, within the framework of the university
the basics of programming and electronics in order to con-
project “Space Donkey – Usiołek w kosmosie”, students
struct an amateur research probe, gather some data concer-
of
ning the atmosphere, the flight of the balloon and… teach
Silesian
lower
secondary
schools
and
technical
secondary schools together with researchers from Unibot
Usiołek to fly.
and the Teenagers’ University of Silesia released a stratospheric balloon with a suspended research probe and
Usiołek rose to the height of nearly 30 km and was not
a mascot of the University of Silesia – Usiołek. The students
too cold. The temperature was favourable, with the lowest
had worked on the project for a few weeks and learnt
value of -13ºC.
Image48 Credit: Unibot
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