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Invitation to the Press - Science Minister to launch Star Tiger Project
June 13, 2002Science Minister Lord Sainsbury will be officially inaugurating the European Star Tiger project on Monday 24 June at 2pm, and you are invited to attend the ceremony and talk to team members and guests. The ceremony will take place at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, where the project is taking place. The small team of science and technology experts from across Europe will work together at RAL to realise the world`s first compact terahertz imager, using state-of-the-art micro-electro-mechanical technology.
The program will start promptly at 2.10pm, so please aim to be at the Laboratory for 2pm. There will be some short presentations, the official launch, followed by an opportunity to talk to key members of the Star Tiger team, the European Space Agency and staff from the Space Science and Technology Department at RAL.
If you would like to attend this ceremony, please email your details to BOTH
n.d.bealing@rl.ac.uk AND j.hutchinson@rl.ac.uk
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC)
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