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 has opened more than 100 positions for Young Graduates.
Registration deadline : 15th of December.
Join our space career events “Be a Star in ESA’s Universe” : 5. November 2019 @ HE-Arc, Neuchâtel / 6. November 2019 @USI Lugano / 7. November 2019 @University of Zurich
Join us at our Annual Assembly at the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, 3 December 2019
Register to our new Continuing Education workshop, taking place on the 8-9th of October at EPFL, Switzerland.
Call for application for the National Trainee Programme 2019 is open until 17 June, 1pm. Discover the 15 open positions now !
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.
3 April 2019
20 March 2019 at University of Bern.
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.
Zurich, 6 December 2018
Register now for the upcoming space career events “Be a Star in ESA’s Universe”:
– 7.11.2018 @ HES-SO Geneva
– 8.11.2018 @ ETH Zurich
Get your ticket now for the upcoming space conference on the subject of “leadership and resource management in extreme situations using the example of Apollo 13” taking place at the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne on October 12, 2018.
We are hiring a Space Science and Technology Advisor. You are a space enthusiast and you have an engineering degree? This is for you!
Register now for the event “Remote Sensing 4.0” taking place in Bern on September 27, 2018.
Melden Sie sich jetzt für das Event “Fernerkundung 4.0” am 27 September 2018 in Bern an.
Enregistrez maintentant pour la manifestation “télédétection 4.0” qui prendra place à Berne au 27 septembre 2018.
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.
Call for application for the National Trainee Programme 2018 is open until 4th of June 2018.
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.
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
18 June 2018 in Bern, Switzerland
22 May 2018 at Lichthof / FocusTerra in Zurich, Switzerland
17 May 2018 at Espace Gruyère in Bulle, Switzerland
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. […]
Zurich, 19 April 2018