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The Young Professionals Satellite (YPSat) programme is an ESA initiative entirely conceived, led, and developed by Young Professionals across the Agency. Working on a voluntary basis and across all ESA establishments, disciplines, and Directorates, participants come together to design, build, and fly hardware for space.

Each YPSat mission is independently proposed and carried out by a new cohort of Young Professionals, gaining hands-on experience in real mission development, from design and integration to testing and launch. The programme fosters technical growth, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovation, while offering opportunities to engage with external partners and contribute meaningfully to ESA’s activities.

Structured to support a growing family of missions, YPSat is a modular and evolving initiative, welcoming new ideas and teams with each generation.

ESA Young Professionals Satellites
YPSat-2 Team at the Young Professional Event 2025
Enabling & Support

YPSat Programme

16/07/2025 10 views 0 likes
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Young Professional Event 2025 ESTEC
Enabling & Support

YPSat-2 connects at the Young Professional Event 2025

10/06/2025 493 views 2 likes
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YPSat-2 thermal sub-system team
Enabling & Support

About YPSat-2

26/05/2025 1113 views 27 likes
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YPSat-2 Team at ESTEC during the Young Professionals Event 2024
Enabling & Support

The Team behind YPSat-2

16/05/2025 862 views 8 likes
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YPSAT-YES2, ESA colleagues
Enabling & Support

The YES and YES2 Projects: Fuelling Inspiration for YPSat-1

25/11/2024 677 views 2 likes
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YPSat looks back to Earth from atop Ariane 6
Enabling & Support

YPSat-1: the view from Ariane 6

11/07/2024 8945 views 31 likes
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YPSat
Enabling & Support

Young Professionals’ YPSat-1 headed to Ariane 6

25/04/2024 914 views 4 likes
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YPSat-1 camera
Enabling & Support

Ariane 6 launches: YPSat-1 ‘the witness’

26/03/2024 3848 views 25 likes
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YPSAT and Scanway team
Enabling & Support

Lens on Space: Scanway & YPSat-1's Collaboration

31/01/2024 396 views 1 likes
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EnduroSat engineer
Enabling & Support

EnduroSat: Empowering space access

16/01/2024 926 views 5 likes
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AMSAT EA antenna
Enabling & Support

AMSAT EA: Connecting to space

16/01/2024 1034 views 7 likes
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Enabling & Support

ESA Director General gets hands-on with Young Professionals…

10/08/2023 808 views 8 likes
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YPSat team preparing balloon flight
Enabling & Support

YPSat-1 Wake-Up-System takes flight in Hungary

09/06/2023 785 views 3 likes
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YPSat presented to ESA-wide stakeholders and management
Enabling & Support

YPSat-1 presented to ESA-wide stakeholders and management

25/04/2023 744 views 2 likes
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YPSat-1 in Mechanical Systems Lab
Enabling & Support

Young ESA payload destined for space

27/02/2023 1882 views 28 likes
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