Training Future opportunities
Cybersecurity Training Session 2024
Date: 8 – 12 April 2024
Description: During this training session the students will have the opportunity to receive an introductory course on the scope of cybersecurity threats and risks with a particular focus on the context of the space sector. This will be followed by exposure to security engineering for cybersecure space systems and operational cybersecurity risk management; in particular, students will gain experience in cybersecurity for space communications systems solutions and gain insights into general cybersecurity threat monitoring and management.
Concurrent Engineering Challenge 2024
Date: 15 – 19 April 2024
Description: With respect to traditional design methods, the Concurrent Engineering approach uses a dedicated process and facility, a multidisciplinary team, and an integrated design model so that all subsystems are able to perform the design in the same room, at the same time. Each group will be supervised by two local systems engineers and will be given, at the start of the Challenge, the same space mission to design within five days. Students in each group will be divided into small teams of two or three to cover the following disciplines:
- structures,
- configuration
- power
- mechanisms,
- thermal
- payload
- attitude and orbit control
- propulsion
- trajectory analysis
- communications and data handling
Fly Your Satellite! 4 Workshop
Date: 22 – 26 April 2024
Description: The fourth edition of Fly Your Satellite! (FYS!) is based on the heritage of the previous editions with the objective to support student teams throughout the assembly, integration, testing, and verification process of their educational satellites. By participating in the programme, students will implement standard practices for spacecraft development; receive support from experienced ESA specialists; attend tailored training courses; and will be offered access to state-of-the-art test facilities.
Space Weather Training Course 2024
Date: 13 – 17 May 2024
Description: ESA intends to provide students with an overview and introduction to the space weather domain from a range of perspectives. This will include scientific and technological fundamentals, space weather monitoring, forecasting, modelling, and understanding of its technological impacts along with an outlook toward the domain’s evolution in the future. The course will include lectures and hands-on practical work together with toursof key facilities providing an essential part of the current European space weather landscape: ESA’s Space Weather Coordination Centre and the Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence at the Space Pole in Brussels, and both ESA’s Space Weather Data Centre and Proba-2 Operations Centre at ESEC-Redu.
Space Systems Engineering Training Course 2024
Date: 21 – 24 May 2024
Description: During the four days, participating students will learn about the background and challenges of Space Systems Engineering, before delving into the roles of a Systems Engineer within ESA and exploring the System Engineering process in detail. The course will also give students valuable insight into the Concurrent Design and systems approach to Verification and Validation as well as the interactions with project management, including project planning and risk management. The course will also include a number of group exercises, with the aim of getting participants familiar with system engineering products and some real-world problems faced by space system engineers.
CubeSat Hands-On Training Week 2024
Date: 27 – 31 May 2024
Description: This Training Week is a great opportunity for university students to get hands-on experience with CubeSats and to apply theoretical knowledge obtained from classroom lectures. Students will have the opportunity to perform experiments on Educational Satellites (ESAT) and learn how subsystems work and interact with each other. They will also discover how to conduct Assembly, Integration and Verification (AIV), and how to handle tests using real hardware. The aim of the Training Week is to help students that have innovative ideas for educational CubeSat missions, or are working on CubeSat projects at a conceptual or preliminary stage. As an outcome, students will be able to inject the new knowledge gained from the training week into the early design phase of their CubeSat projects.
Space Standards Training Course 2024
Date: 10-14 June 2024
Description: Over the course of five days, participants will receive a comprehensive introduction to the European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS). Renowned experts from the European Space Agency (ESA) will enlighten participants on the pivotal role of standards in shaping and influencing the execution of space activities. The curriculum will delve into the significance of adhering to standards across various disciplines within ESA while developing space technologies.
ESA/ELGRA Gravity-Related Research Summer School 2024
Date: 17 – 28 June 2024
Description: This unique Summer School offers an overview of the current research under microgravity and hypergravity conditions in both Life and Physical Sciences, and explains the interest and benefits of performing research and technology demonstrations in altered gravity. During the Summer School, students will attend stimulating lectures and work in teams to devise ideas for prospective altered gravity experiments. They will learn the impact of altered gravity research, as well as career possibilities in the European space sector.
Navigation Training Course 2024
Date: 24-28 July 2024
Description: The overall training objectives are to inspire the next generation of space weather experts by providing the students with an overview and introduction to the space weather domain from a range of perspectives. This will include scientific and technological fundamentals along with an outlook towards the domain’s evolution in the future including e.g. the potential role of commercialisation. The course will include lectures and hands-on practical work together with tours of key facilities providing an essential part of the current European space weather landscape: The ESA Space Weather Coordination Centre (SpacePole), ESA Space Weather Data Centre (Redu), Proba2 Operations Centre (Redu) and Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence (SpacePole).
Spacecraft Testing Workshop
Date: 8-12 July 2024
Description: In the ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Facility, selected students will receive lectures from ESA experts on different topics related to testing, from product assurance and systems engineering to the most common types of environmental tests applied to spacecraft. To top it off, students will have the unique opportunity to put their newly acquired theoretical knowledge to the test! Students will prepare and execute a real-life hardware environmental test at the CubeSat Support Facility, by using a special educational test unit developed by the ESA Education Office.
Earth Observation Remote Sensing Workshop 2024
Date: 15 – 19 July 2024
Description: During these five days of workshop at ESA Academy’s Training & Learning Facility (TLF) located in ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium, university students will become acquainted with the basics of Remote Sensing (RS), along with an overview of ESA’s EO satellite missions. Students will also learn about the science of radar and optical remote sensing, as well as data fusion. Delivered by EO experts from ESA, academic institutions and industry, emphasis will be given to gaining practical skills and putting them to use through group exercises using actual remote sensing tools.
CubeSat Summer School 2024
Date: 5 – 30 August 2024
Description: During the Summer School, ESA and external experts will deliver an extensive mix of lectures and hands-on activities. The entire project lifecycle of a satellite mission will be covered, from design to verification, launch and operations, including typical milestone reviews and new methodologies. Students will be introduced to project management best practices, legal, cybersecurity, and economic aspects of space projects. The Summer School will even introduce space entrepreneurship skills, offering support in devising methods of turning a CubeSat into a viable and profitable business opportunity!
Space Debris Training Course 2024
Date: 09 – 13 September 2024
Description: Participating University students will be provided with an introduction to the concept of space debris, why it is necessary to address this problem, and how the mitigation policies set by ESA apply to missions. Participants will not only learn about the space debris environment and mitigation technologies and future challenges such as large satellite constellations, but also about how it impacts spacecraft operations and potential future solutions. Current topics such as large satellite constellations and new space traffic management developments will be discussed. Taught by ESA experts as well as external experts in the sector, the course will be delivered through formal technical lectures complemented by hands-on exercises based on a real-life case study.
Concurrent Engineering Workshop 2024
Date: 16 – 20 September 2024
Description: Concurrent engineering is a method of designing and developing products in the space sector where all subsystems are designed simultaneously making the process more efficient. During this workshop, university students learn about concurrent engineering and its benefits, taking advantage of the use of the ESA Academy’s Concurrent Design Facility (CDF). Guided by ESA experts, the students first learn to use the Open Concurrent Design Tool (OCDT) and identify design drivers. They are then divided into groups of 2 or 3 to cover the several subsystems and, together with their groups, they create a subsystem concept in order to later achieve an already identified mission concept using concurrent engineering.
Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Operations Training Course 2024
Date: 14 – 18 October 2024
Description: Taught by an experienced engineer who works for the Operations Department of ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, the 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. The students will visit ESA’s European Space Security and Education Centre (ESEC) and learn about its on-site activities, including Galileo and PROBA spacecraft’s operations.
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