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GENSO - Call for proposals for new students or teams 
The ESA Education Office is currently looking for student teams to fill the following vacancies in the Global Educational Network for Satellite Operations project. GENSO is a software standard which allows each ground station on the network to communicate with non-local spacecraft and share data with the spacecraft controllers via the internet. This will allow for a near global coverage in communication for every educational satellite launched, greatly increasing the return from educational space missions and the opportunities for sending commands to the spacecraft. The call is open to students and amateur radio enthusiasts from any country, although preference will be given to students from the member countries of the ISEB Agencies, in particular if their participation is well supported by their universities. The projects outlined below have been identified by current team members as tasks which are distinct enough to be suitable for a university project or thesis, while still forming a valuable addition to the overall GENSO project. Combinations of projects or new, original projects relevant to GENSO may also be proposed.
Proposals and deadline Expressions of interest should be submitted to genso @ esa.int using the template provided. Prior to submitting a proposal, interested parties may contact the same address with any questions. The initial deadline for responding to the call is 12 December 2008. After this time, any projects still open or future opportunities that arise will be advertised on the GENSO project website. A separate call for ground stations to test the software is envisaged in early 2009.
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