Iztok Kramberger

Another Slovenian satellite ready for launch

Published by The Slovenia Times on Tue, 06/14/2022 - 23:44

Kourou – The latest Slovenian satellite to be sent into space, the Trisat-R, has been delivered from Maribor to French Guiana, where it is scheduled to be launched on the VEGA-C rocket on 7 July. Its main purpose are measurements of ionising radiation in the medium Earth orbit to model the magnetospheric environment and better understand space weather.

Epidemiologist Fafangel Delo’s person of the year

Published by The Slovenia Times on Fri, 01/08/2021 - 07:16

Ljubljana – Mario Fafangel, the head of the Centre for Communicable Diseases at the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), was declared the Person of the Year 2020 by the newspaper publisher Delo at an online event on Thursday evening. He was labelled the leading epidemiologist “showing us the way in the restless sea of the epidemic”.