http://www.esa.int ESA Education newsspaceen-us600Copyright 2012 European Space Agencyrss@esa.intMon, 13 Feb 2012 13:38:23 GMTMon, 13 Feb 2012 13:38:23 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The first satellites entirely designed and built by Hungary, Poland, Romania are now orbiting Earth after today’s successful maiden flight of ESA's small Vega launcher. ]]> http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Education/SEMWHLWX7YG_0.html SEMWHLWX7YGMon, 13 Feb 2012 13:05:00 GMT History was made today as ESA’s new Vega launcher lifted off from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. On board were nine small satellites, including seven ESA- sponsored CubeSats built by teams of students from European universities. ]]> http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Education/SEMW5KYXHYG_0.html SEMW5KYXHYGMon, 13 Feb 2012 09:12:00 GMT Ten student teams from ESA's Member and Cooperating States have been selected by a panel of experts from ESA, the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB), SSC and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to fly their experiments on future sounding rocket and balloon campaigns. ]]> http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Education/SEMQWAWX7YG_0.html SEMQWAWX7YGThu, 09 Feb 2012 10:37:00 GMT PR 2 2012 - On 13 February, the European Space Agency will perform the first qualification flight of its brand new Vega launch vehicle.

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]]> http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Education/SEMICHTXXXG_0.html SEMICHTXXXGFri, 03 Feb 2012 06:28:00 GMT The excitement is mounting, not only at the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, but also in universities across Europe, as ESA's Vega launch vehicle is prepared for its maiden flight. Among the payloads on board Europe's latest rocket are seven student-built CubeSats sponsored by ESA. ]]> http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Education/SEMV4RH8RXG_0.html SEMV4RH8RXGThu, 26 Jan 2012 09:55:00 GMT Sixty space experiment proposals have been selected as finalists in the YouTube Space Lab student science competition, co-sponsored by ESA. Judges must now select the two top entries to be flown on the International Space Station. ]]> http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Education/SEMSL6NXDXG_0.html SEMSL6NXDXGThu, 19 Jan 2012 09:25:00 GMT The ESA Education Office is currently looking for student teams to fill the following vacancies in the Global Educational Network for Satellite Operations project. ]]> http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMSOC5KXMF_index_0.html SEMSOC5KXMFWed, 12 Nov 2008 12:26:00 GMT Following on from the successful “Vega maiden flight CubeSat workshop” held at ESA/ESTEC in January 2008, which was the first CubeSat workshop to be held at European-level, the ESA Education Office is pleased to announce the Second European CubeSat workshop one year later as planned. ]]> http://www.esa.int/esaED/SEMAYTRTKMF_index_0.html SEMAYTRTKMFWed, 05 Nov 2008 16:47:00 GMT A robot rover designed by a Bremen university team has won an ESA contest to retrieve soil samples from a lunar-style terrestrial crater. Eight student teams fielded rovers during the event, their progress monitored by an advanced 3-D viewer already flight-tested in space and planned for eventual deployment on the Moon. ]]> http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMBXQ4KXMF_index_0.html SEMBXQ4KXMFTue, 04 Nov 2008 15:49:00 GMT As part of its ongoing remit to promote science and technology education in Europe and in the context of ESA's ongoing cooperation with NASA, ESA sponsored two outstanding university students to attend the prestigious NASA Academy internship programme during the summer of 2008. ]]> http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Education/SEMCQTRTKMF_0.html SEMCQTRTKMFMon, 03 Nov 2008 11:00:00 GMT In June 2008, ESA’s Education Office launched a new programme called ‘Fly Your Thesis! – An Astronaut Experience’. This exciting programme offered an opportunity for teams of university students to fly their experiments in microgravity by participating in a series of parabolic flights on an Airbus A300 Zero-G aircraft. ]]> http://www.esa.int/esaED/SEMB9TRTKMF_index_0.html SEMB9TRTKMFFri, 31 Oct 2008 09:00:00 GMT The Teide volcanic peak on the island of Tenerife acted as a mock-up of the Moon landscape last week, with eight European student teams tuning, testing and driving their lunar rovers in preparation for a robotics competition that took place during the dark nights of last weekend. ]]> http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM4GKRTKMF_index_0.html SEM4GKRTKMFMon, 27 Oct 2008 15:14:00 GMT The Eighth European Mars Conference (EMC 8) will take place at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, on 17 and 18 October. The theme of the conference is Columbus, Quest for a New World, looking forward to a time when humans will escape the bonds of Earth and venture forth to explore distant worlds. ]]> http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Education/SEMQ6SSG7MF_0.html SEMQ6SSG7MFWed, 15 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMT On 15 September, students from Spain, Sweden and Belgium watched in eager anticipation as their experiments took to the air on the first ESA STRAtospheric PLatform EXperiment (STRAPLEX) campaign. ]]> http://www.esa.int/esaED/SEM85F6EJLF_highschool_0.html SEM85F6EJLFThu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT ESA has released a new educational DVD and a 3-D Teaching Tool, adding to the suite of human spaceflight related education products available for school teachers to use in the classroom. ]]> http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEME7WP4KKF_index_0.html SEME7WP4KKFThu, 18 Sep 2008 11:37:00 GMT To mark the European launch of WALL-E, Disney/Pixar's exciting smash hit movie, ESA is today launching a new web site which highlights the multitude of educational resources and fun activities that are available on the Agency's Internet pages. ]]> http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ESERO_Project/SEM11RWIPIF_0.html SEM11RWIPIFFri, 18 Jul 2008 12:09:00 GMT The winners of the 'Take your classroom into space' call for education ideas have been selected. The two best experiment ideas will be performed in space by ESA astronaut Frank De Winne during his spaceflight in 2009. Pupils throughout Europe will be able to compare results obtained in their classroom to those obtained in space. ]]> http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMGLSICKHF_index_0.html SEMGLSICKHFTue, 17 Jun 2008 12:16:00 GMT With Europe's Columbus laboratory safely attached to the International Space Station, this is a good time to come up with new ideas for experiments that can be carried out onboard the station to demonstrate the effects of weightlessness to young students. ]]> http://www.esa.int/esaED/SEMLGRUHJCF_index_0.html SEMLGRUHJCFThu, 14 Feb 2008 07:08:00 GMT As part of worldwide activities to celebrate the 50 years of space exploration, Polish children and students had the chance to meet European and American astronauts in Warsaw, to hear at firsthand about living and working in space. ]]> http://www.esa.int/esaED/SEMFH3V7D7F_index_0.html SEMFH3V7D7FTue, 09 Oct 2007 08:34:00 GMT Fifty years ago today, on the night of 4 October, the first 'beep-beep' from Sputnik fell from the heavens and marked the beginning of a new era for the human race. Visit our Space Jubilee site ]]> http://www.esa.int/esaED/SEM12UNTB7F_index_0.html SEM12UNTB7FThu, 04 Oct 2007 05:58:00 GMT