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Meet the Team: SPaRKLE

December 10, 2024
ESA
The SPaRKLE team is a group of 20 dedicated students from the University of Trento. This interdisciplinary team, comprising experts in physics, engineering, electronics, data science, and IT, is combining their skills to take on the technical challenges of an orbital mission onboard Space Rider. SPaRKLE is a valuable educational project with real-world applications in space science, which was selected in the ESA Academy Experiments Programme in January 2024. Read More »

Lessons and Celebrations: the closure of Fly Your Satellite! 2

December 06, 2024
ESA
The second edition of the Fly Your Satellite! programme comes to a closure with a week of presentations. During the second session of the Lessons Learned Workshop the EIRSAT-1, ISTSat-1 and 3Cat-4 teams have retraced the major steps of their mission development, presented the current mission status and the lessons learned throughout the years in front of an audience composed of ESA experts and ESA Academy student teams. Read More »

Space Systems Engineering Training Course now open for student applications

December 04, 2024
ESA
To help prepare the next generation of Space Systems Engineers, the ESA Education Office is looking for 30 motivated and enthusiastic university students to participate in the next Space Systems Engineering Training Course, to be held from 6 to 9 May 2025 in the ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Facility (TLF) at ESA’s ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium.   Read More »

Concurrent Engineering Challenge open for applications

November 29, 2024
ESA
ESA’s Education Office is seeking 30 talented and motivated university students with an engineering or physics background to participate in the Concurrent Engineering Challenge 2025. The challenge will take place at the educational Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) of ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Facility (TLF), located in ESEC-Galaxia, Transinne, Belgium.  Read More »

15 Student teams fly to the Netherlands for the FYS Design Booster 2 Training Week

November 27, 2024
ESA
From 11 to 15 November, over 100 university and tertiary education students representing 15 teams have travelled to the Netherlands for an intense week of lectures and workshops from ESA experts. The knowledge they gained is going to be fundamental in updating and refining their mission designs - an essential step in remaining competitive and increasing their chances of being selected for the second cycle of the Fly Your Satellite! Design Booster programme. Read More »

Meet the Team: SILOE

November 25, 2024
ESA
SILOE is a team of 5 students from ISAE SUPAERO (Toulouse, France). The team aims to study the properties of the material found on the surface of planets and asteroids. The results of their experiment, which will be executed in the last quarter of 2024 at the Drop Towers facility, could help reduce the risks of space missions involving for instance landing and roving on the Moon and collecting surface samples. Read More »
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