Our Annual Assembly 2020 will take place on the 8 December 2020 in order to present our projects and activities of the past year and give an outlook on the projects planned in 2021. This year, the event is open to our members only.
ESA Young Graduate Trainee positions are open !
Be a Star in ESA’s Universe
SSC Annual Assembly
Workshop “AI for Space – Why, where and how ?”
National Trainee Programme 2019
Continuing Education “Non Destructive Analysis for Space”
Call for Ideas 2019
MOOC Space Mission Design and Operations
National Information Day “ESA’s scientific programme, H2020-SPACE, PRODEX”
Space Opportunities with NCCR PlanetS
International Summer Camps
Executive Summary 2018
MdP 2018 – selection
SSC Annual Assembly
Be a Star in ESA’s Universe
Space conference: “Teamwork and Leadership in extreme situations”
We are hiring!
Remote Sensing 4.0 / Fernerkundung 4.0 / Télédétection 4.0
New Working Group on Software for Satellite Operations
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 their competitiveness and therefore increase the impact of Swiss software contributions in the space sector.
National Trainee Programme 2018
New job at ETH Zurich!
Electronics Engineer for Scientific Instruments in Space.
The Aerospace Electronics and Instruments Laboratory (AEIL) of the Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zurich has successfully developed the sensor electronics for ESA LISA Pathfinder mission and NASA InSight mission. AEIL will contribute the Gravitational Reference Sensor Electronics to LISA, the upcoming large ESA mission to detect gravitational waves. For this new challenging project, we are seeking a young and highly motivated Electronics Engineer for Scientific Instruments in Space.
Bring your idea to Space!
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 sustain life in extreme conditions and beyond Earth.
How to design and build a human habitat in Ice? This is the challenge posed by the Swiss Space Center, inviting all students in Europe to share, discuss, and demonstrate their ideas on this topic.
The space sector is entering a new era. Formerly accessible to only a few spacefaring nations, it is becoming an incredible ‘playground’ for many new enthusiastic actors: emerging private companies and industries, a fast growing number of countries, academies and citizens join forces and seize the new opportunities in space to create knowledge, wealth and services for humans all around the globe.
The European Space Agency (ESA) drives this development by strengthening its ties with academia and other innovation partners, fostering a constant flux of radically new ideas and disruptive, future oriented solutions for space challenges.
ESA_Lab@ is a new ESA initiative that creates an open cooperation scheme between ESA, academia and also other actors to intensify research, development, and outreach. Recognising that innovation and education drive growth, ESA_Lab@ aims to inspire the next generation of space experts who will carry on the pursuit of technological and commercial successes in space.
ESA_Lab@CH will explore a new way to set-up and implement international, collaborative student projects on visionary space topics. As a first pilot, the Swiss Space Center is preparing a project on the topic of A Human Habitat in Ice: Demonstrating key enabling technologies for life support in frozen worlds. The vision of this project that is also supported by the Swiss Space Office of the State Secretariat of Education, Research and Innovation (SERI/SSO), is to develop, together with students from all over Europe, technologies that will enable humans to live away from Earth – and live better on Earth.
In the new era of Space 4.0, space is no longer exclusively driven by experts. Space should be for everyone, and the more people think about a problem, the better the solutions become. There are many people that have unique experiences, knowledge, dreams, and competences that could benefit the way we design, fabricate and use space systems.
Students, your ideas, combined with some space expertise, will drive the future of space!
Join the discussion and the project on www.myideafor.space
Workshop on Swiss Space Mechanisms and Components
Lift-off apéro by ETH Zurich for the NASA InSight Mars Mission
Conférence Thomas Pesquet – 196 jours à bord de la Station spatiale internationale ISS
Horloges spatiales à l’heure de la 3D
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 Neuchâtel. Cette technologie a permis de simplifier la fabrication et réduire le poids de cavités micro-ondes, pièces clés de ces garde-temps. Réalisé en partenariat avec l’EPFL et l’entreprise SWISSto12, le projet a bénéficié d’un soutien de CHF 250’000 du Swiss Space Office de la Confédération. Les résultats, qui ont dépassé les attentes des scientifiques, seront présentés le 13 février au Swiss Space Center de l’EPFL. […]