Jamaica

In Retrospect: Jamaica's First Yuri's Night

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Yuri's Night 2008 had another record breaking year with 198 parties in 51 countries. Jamaica played an active part in the ground breaking with the hosting of its first Yuri's Night Celebration. More...

AAJ Annual General Meeting

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Contact Person: MrcACrl

Yuri's Night: Jamaica Style!

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Astronomical Association of Jamaica (AAJ)

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The Astronomical Association of Jamaica (AAJ) was formed in 1948 as an Amateur Astronomical Society. Initially, the AAJ membership comprised persons from all walks of life including Science Professors from the then University College of the West Indies now University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI).

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Some six decades later in 2008, the AAJ is still the premier astronomy (Space) group in Jamaica and has been instrumental in taking the distant realm of the extraterrestrial right into the everyday

University of Technology (UTech)

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Founded in 1958 as the Jamaica Institute of Technology and then renamed in 1959 the College of Arts, Science and Technology (CAST), UTech was fully recognised as a university in 1995. Find out more about UTech here

UTech offers several technology related programmes, particularly in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing, which have application within the Space industry (see here).

University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus

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The University of the West Indies (UWI) is the oldest tertiary institution in the Caribbean, starting out in 1948 at the Mona Campus in Kingston, Jamaica as a college of the University of London. It gained full university status in 1962 and has campuses spread across several Caribbean islands. Read more about UWI Mona history here

The UWI Physics Department, a part of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at Mona, conducts research in several areas in the Space domain including GPS Error C

Spy Satellite Shootdown Takes Centre Stage in Jamaican Newspaper

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As a developing nation, the reduction of poverty and crime, and battling the economic effects of globalisation usually dominate the headlines and editorials in the influential Jamaican media. On February 25 of 2008, however, what took centre stage was the demise of spy satellite USA 193 by a modified US Navy SM3 missile. More...

Jamaica

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News and events in Jamaica, as well as a directory of educational and other organisations.

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