New ESA Academy funding opportunity open!
ESA Academy now offer a new Academic Scholarship programme which facilitates access to space-related Master’s programmes by covering the tuition fees of tertiary education students from ESA Member and Associated States.
Educational institutions wishing to offer ESA Academy scholarships to their students can apply to our programme.
REXUS/BEXUS 2025
In collaboration with the Swedish National Space Agency and the German Aerospace Center, ESA is currently accepting proposals for the 2025 cycle of the REXUS/BEXUS Programme (Rocket and Balloon Experiments for University Students). The programme offers flight opportunities on sounding rockets and stratospheric balloons for experimental payloads designed and developed by university students.
Follow the tracks of H.E.I.M.D.A.L – a student team from SDU and AU currently participating in Bexus.
Training Programme:
A 5-day long Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Operations Training Course will be delivered through formal lectures but with a heavy emphasis placed on the interaction with the students. The way specific subsystems of a spacecraft like Attitude, Determination and Control Subsystem (ADCS), Orbit Control System (OCS), Power, On Board Data Handling (OBDH), Telemetry, Telecommunication & Control (TT&C), Thermal and On Board Software (OBS), have been designed has a bearing on the way operations are carried out, and this will be highlighted and discussed.
The four first days of the course will be delivered at ESA Education Training Centre in Belgium. On the final day, students will have the opportunity to visit to the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) in Germany and meet different operations engineers. Their experience will end with a simulation in the ESOC’s famous Main Control Room where they will attempt to rescue their spacecraft.
Closing date 29 July 2024.
Please do not hesitate to contact ESA Education Office for any questions and to share this information with your colleagues or on your social media. As always, keep an eye on our current opportunities web page!