Together with Sarah Pickett one of the IET Satellite Technical Network volunteers and Lydia Vaton, IET Student Co-ordinator, I attended the UKSEDS 2020 conference at Birmingham University on 8 March.  The previous day, Chris Brunskill and Paul Wells, two of the other volunteers had done the honours and looked after the IET's stand.Despite the early onset of the escalation in the Covid-19 virus, the conference was well attended and there were some excellent talks by leading space science and industry speakers.  The IET stand formed part of the networking exhibition and we had the opportunity to speak to lots of enthusiastic space, aerospace and satellite scientists and engineers about the IET, the Technical Network and also the products available for Students and Young Professionals.


Our colleagues at the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) had brought their Soyuz Simulator along with them, which proved popular with people wanting to see if they could dock with the International Space Station, those who were successful got a certificate to take away with them.


The Satellite TN would like to thank its volunteers for supporting the event, UKSEDS for giving us the opportunity to take part in the conference once again and also the students at University of Birmingham for organising the conference at relatively short notice.


Looking forward to hearing in the summer where the 2021 conference will be held.