Join us for a celebration of 20 years of the EPFL Space Center on December 7th @6.30pm-9.00pm ! Since 2003, we have sent a CubeSat into space, hosted and launched startups such as ClearSpace and [...]

New continuing education course on space sustainability: “How to measure, analyse and act towards more sustainable space missions.” This course will take place from March 19-21, 2024. [...]

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The program for the COSMOS CLUB 2024 lecture series is out!

Learn more about the latest technology trends in photonics, new market opportunities, CSEM photonics technologies and gain insight on the strategic road map of the EU in the field of photonics!

A new collaboration between ESA and Swiss watchmaker Swatch allows space fans to design their own space-themed watch using stunning images from space telescopes.

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9T Labs AG, a pioneering force in digital, automated, and cost-efficient serial production of continuous fiber components, will host Composites United Innovation Day on September 21, 2023, at its [...]

“Aiming High: The Story of the James Webb Space Telescope and How it is Changing our View of the Universe” Tuesday, July 11th 2023, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EPFL Polydôme Auditorium [...]

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The biggest European event entirely dedicated to Cybersecurity for the space industry, organized by CYSEC, will take place in Paris on April 26-27th, 2023. Today, many critical services on Earth [...]

Challenges and opportunities in the space field. Practical and useful information for space industries and newcomers in the domain. ! This event is dedicated to Swiss organisations with invited [...]

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24 January 2023, EPFL Lausanne. The meeting will include a review of the activities of Space Innovation, a message from the Board of Directors and the Steering Committee, as well as presentations [...]

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Outer space has become an increasingly important resource for the Earth. Thousands of satellites orbit the Earth, providing social, scientific, and economic benefits to people on the ground. [...]

The Italian government has established the National Day of Space on December 16. On the day before, in 1964, Italy launched the S. Marco 1 satellite, becoming the third country to have space [...]

On November 14th, 16:00-17:00, webinar : Solar System Objects (SSOs) Pipeline for the Euclid Mission, by Aurelien Verdier. During this webinar, you will see how a pipeline for a spatial mission [...]

On the 6th of December 2022, 16:30 – 18:00, the Innovation Office of the University of Bern in collaboration with Euresearch and ESA BIC Switzerland are organising an event to present an overview [...]

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Taking place between the 4-6th November 2022, “Space for the Financial World” will be held online and in-person at 10 locations in Europe. In Switzerland, the event will be hosted by Space4Impact [...]

Space Innovation is initiating a new Call for Ideas to foster low Technology Readiness Level (typically TRL 1-2) research and development studies related to space activities.

A new edition of our Members’ Profiles is now online. It includes a new entity, Art of Technology, that has joined our network this year.

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You can still register for the CAS Systems Engineering training starting in August! It offers advanced training in complex system description, development and verification for engineers. At the [...]

Join the team of ExoLabs (exolabs.ch), a dynamic company specialized in the development of remote sensing solutions. ExoLabs is a spin-off of the University of Zürich, founded in 2017. You will [...]

A special week to highlight the actors who contribute to making Switzerland a space nation and support the next generation of space scientists. A Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW event [...]

ESA invites the European science and research community to submit ideas for innovative research activities that can be undertaken on the ISS.

ESA invites the European science and research community to submit ideas for innovative research activities that can be undertaken at the Moon.

Join prospective customers and partners at ESA’s Industry Space Days for two days of intense networking on 28 – 29 September. Do not forget to register now to meet members of the European space [...]

Internship position opportunity at SpacePNT who is a leading Swiss company based in Neuchâtel.

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28 March – 1 April, EPFL, Lausanne. SATW and its partners offer you a special week dedicated to space. Join us to discover the actors who contribute to make Switzerland a space nation. The [...]

18-19 March 2022, SwissTech Convention Center, Lausanne.  Take an incredible journey through the past, current, and future of human space flight and space exploration, as we tell the continuing [...]

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News from our members | Former student success story SanoSat-1 into SSO orbit | Overview of our members. Subscribe to get our latest news!

The fourth edition of our Members’ Profiles is now online. Five new entities have joined our network this year: Coactum, CompPair, Kistler, Syderal Swiss and the Swiss Armed Forces.

Successful Annual Assembly | Welcome to our five new members | Open calls and opportunities at ESA. Subscribe to get our latest news!

We warmly thank all those who came to our Annual Assembly 2021 on Wednesday 8 December at EPFL. It was a successful edition and we look forward to future projects with the space community! If you [...]

Webinar by Kistler on on electric motor testing for aerospace application | Register to our Annual Assembly on Wednesday 8 December 2021. Subscribe to get our latest news!

Over the years, several IGLUNA teams from many countries have submitted papers for the IAC to present the technologies they have developped. Click here to read the articles!

8 December, EPFL Lausanne. The meeting will include a review of the activities of Space Innovation, a message from the Board of Directors and the Steering Committee, as well as presentations from [...]

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Get ready for lift-off! In January 2022 Space4Impact will kick-off it’s first acceleration program for downstream space applications. The Space2Earth Accelerator will bring together space [...]

Webinar IGLUNA “Outcome and next steps” | Space2Earth Accelerator | Save the date for our Annual Assembly | News from our members. Subscribe to get our latest news!

A new lecture has started during the Autumn semester 2021 at ETH Zürich: “Space Research and Exploration”. The lecture series is hosted by Prof. Sascha P. Quanz in the presence of [...]

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15 July 2021: Lucerne is hosting more than 70 international students until the 25 July to present and test innovative technologies during the IGLUNA Field Campaign. Together they sketch the [...]

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The Hochschule Luzern is currently offering a Certificate of Advance Studies (CAS) in Systems Engineering for Smart industries with the Prof. Dr. Gerhard Stefan Székely. From the 23 August 2021 [...]

New educational trail for kids accross the ETH Hönggerberg campus consisting of seven stations with interesting facts about space travel, physics and the planet Mars. Ideal for school classes and [...]

16-25 July 2021, Lucerne. The Field Campaign of the third edition of IGLUNA will take place this year in a hybrid way. Some student teams will travel to Switzerland and meet in Lucerne, while the [...]

The IGLUNA 2021 students have successfully completed the Readiness Review. From the 24 May to 4 June, they had to prove to their coach and experts that they were ready for the final step: the [...]

ESA has extended the deadline to apply to the Astronaut selection to the 18 June 2021.

Join the CASSINI Hackathon! | Swiss Trainees at ESA – Webinar announcement | New opportunities

Take your chance and register to the ESA Astronaut Selection. Applications will close on the 28 May 2021.

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ESA Astronaut Selection 2021 – Are you a scientist, engineer or doctor with a passion for space? Prepare your application with the help of Claude Nicollier and apply for the current ESA [...]

In order to demonstrate the interdisciplinarity of the space research and exploration field, a new lecture series will be proposed to ETH Zürich and University of Zürich students, starting in the [...]

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17-19 March 2021, online. The first European event around cybersecurity for commercial space, co-organized by CYSEC and AP-Swiss, gathering leading players to discuss challenges and solutions [...]

For the first time in 11 years, the European Space Agency will again recruit astronauts. ESA is seeking candidates with a Master’s degree (or higher) and a minimum of three years’ [...]

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Our Executive Summary summing up our activities of last year is out!

ESA is looking for its new Young Graduate Trainees! Vacancies are open until 1st March and are available in engineering, science, IT, natural/social science and business services.

Sustainable Space Logistics Symposium | Opportunities for students | CES 2021 | Subscribe to get our latest news!

Press release – 7.01.2021: The space domain is evolving rapidly and the need for disruptive innovation is more important than ever before. To better reflect this new reality, the Swiss [...]

Daniel Neuenschwander joins our Board of Directors | Thank you and happy new year! | Subscribe to get our latest news !

Press release – 16.12.2020: Nine IGLUNA students presented the initial phase of their lunar mission “SCALE” to a team of ESA specialists involved in the preparation and [...]

Latest Press release – 24.11.2020: The IGLUNA platform embarks rovers and space exploration forits third edition. More than 200 university students from nine countries have reachedthe first [...]

Space4Impact Kick-off Event | Job opportunities | IGLUNA Preliminary Design Review and CDF Study at ESA. Subscribe to get our latest news !

25-26 November 2020, online. Space4Impact aims to promote New Space technologies and boost the NewSpace ecosystem for a more sustainable future. The event will gather policy makers, investors, [...]

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Get to know the space actors in Switzerland ! This booklet gathers each of our members’ competences and contributions to the growth & excellence of space activities in Switzerland.

Application closed – We are looking for a motivated & dynamic Young Graduate Trainee to complete the Space4Impact team. Duration : 1 September 2020 – 31 January 2021 (6 months)

We are hiring ! | IGLUNA Closure | Public events | Call for Projects – Asclepios. Subscribe to get our latest news !

10-19 July 2020 : The 15 IGLUNA teams will virtually demonstrate their technologies for a space habitat to sustain life in an extreme environment by remote control, together with public [...]

ESA is now accepting proposals for the next cycle of the REXUS/BEXUS programme (Rocket and Balloon Experiments for University Students). The programme offers flight opportunities on sounding [...]

IGLUNA Virtual Field Campaign | OSIP open campaigns | ESA BIC Info Event. Subscribe to get our latest news !

IGLUNA 2021 Call | NTP Positions open at ESA | IGLUNA Virtual Field Campaign | Swiss Space Days. Subscribe to get our latest news !

Eleven National Trainee Positions at ESA are now open to young Swiss graduates. Application deadline : 10 June 2020.

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Events cancellation | MOOC Start | Space Debris Training course at ESA. Subscribe to get our latest news !

Following the past successful Mesure de Positionnement to promote Swiss competences related to space activities, the Swiss Space Office of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and [...]

Claude Nicollier’s MOOC “Space Mission Design and Operations” has been updated according to the space sector evolution. Next session : 11th March 2020 on EdX.

New MOOC Session | IGLUNA Midterm Event | MdP 2020. Subscribe to get our latest news !

The ESA solar and heliospheric physics mission will be launched on the 8th of February at 5:15 CET. It gathers 10 instruments from all around Europe, to which several of our members such as the [...]

MdP & Call for Ideas Results | Solar Orbiter Launch | Galileo Drawing Competition. Subscribe to get our latest news !

The competition is open for primary school pupils living in Switzerland, Norway and Croatia. The winner from each country will have a Galileo satellite named after them. Submission deadline : 31. [...]

ESA has opened more than 100 positions for Young Graduates. Registration deadline : 15th of December.

The Austrian Space Applications Programme ASAP invites Swiss actors to participate in the 16th edition of its Call.

“Mars, Moxie and the Future of Space Exploration”. 23 September at EPFL, Lausanne and 25 September at ETH, Zurich

Register to our new Continuing Education workshop, taking place on the 8-9th of October at EPFL, Switzerland.

Save the date ! From the 17 June until the 3 July, visit the project teams in the village of Zermatt and at the Glacier Palace (Klein Matterhorn). This is the unique opportunity to discover the [...]

The Call for Proposals for IGLUNA 2020 is now open. Pre-selection is open until 31 May. Submit your project and be part of the next edition of the interdisciplinary platform for future Space and [...]

Register to our Continuing Education workshop on the 5th of June in Dübendorf, in collaboration with Empa.

Call for proposals – the Call for Ideas 2019 is open from March 11th until April 8th 2019.

Register now for the MOOC Space Mission Design and Operations with Prof. Claude Nicollier starting on 13 March 2019.

Apply now for the International Summer Camps 2019 in China, Russia or Austria.

Our Annual Report 2018 is now published. Enjoy!

After the review process, 10 activities were selected for funding. They start officially on November 1st 2018 and will be concluded on January 31st 2020.

From 12-14 September 2018, the project teams met in Zurich to start working on IGLUNA. Take a look!

with a message from ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the IGLUNA kick-off event has started. The students gathered in Zurich, Switzerland and started to work together on their projects.

learn more about our ESA_Lab@ interuniversity demonstrator project.

take a look at our new trailer video presenting the Swiss Space Center.

A great article of our member Picterra featured in todays EPFL News: “EPFL start-up Picterra has devised a smart system that allows users to analyze drone or satellite images of a given [...]

The objective of this new working group is to connect the Swiss academy and industrial actors and to provide a platform for promoting common projects, enabling the industrial partners to increase [...]

Thursday, 31st May 2018, 5 p.m. ETH Hönggerberg, HIL D 53

Call for application for the National Trainee Programme 2018 is open until 4th of June 2018.

The Swiss Space Center (SSC) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have joined in partnership to prepare ESA_Lab@CH, an initiative meant to give students the opportunity to develop technologies to [...]

Learn the concepts used in the design of space missions, manned or unmanned, and operations, based on the professional experience of the lecturer. This Massive Open Online Course start on March [...]

Following the past four successful editions of the MdP Calls for Proposals (Mesure de Positionnement) launched since 2010 to reinforce the technological and scientific capabilities of Swiss [...]

Apply now until April 23 for the International Graduate Summer School in Aeronautics and Astronautics 2018 (IGSS) from 11 – 17 July 2018 at Beihang University in Beijing, China.    

Nau visited us during our module “space debris” at the Tecday at Kantonsschule Reussbühl in Lucerne and featured an article on their webpage. Check it out!

Les horloges atomiques destinées à l’espace peuvent désormais compter sur l’impression 3D, comme l’atteste une recherche dirigée par le Laboratoire Temps Fréquence (LTF) de l’Université de [...]

16 – 27 July 2018 in Beijing, China.   13 special China-focused tracks to choose from Lectures ¦ Interactive Workshops ¦ Field trips ¦ Cultural Activities    

The Space Debris Training Course  will be hosted at the ESA Academy‘s Training & Learning Centre in ESEC, Redu, Belgium, from 16 to 20 April 2018. University students will be provided [...]

ESA has opened a competition for a design that will ornament the fairing of the Soyuz rocket carrying the satellite CHEOPS. The fairing is the outer housing that protects the satellite against [...]

The RTS programme “Toute une vie” presented Claude Nicollier on January 4th 2018. “Des archives rares, des photos, des documents personnels. Le Suisse de l’Espace, Claude [...]

Swiss TechLadies is a support programme in technics and informatics. The programme consists of a online challenge for all and a mentoring programme for girls. Women working in STEM domaine are [...]