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So you want to drive a spacecraft
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Paris (ESA) Aug 17, 2016


Presentation of the ESA Education opportunities for tertiary students. Image courtesy ESA. For a larger version of this image please go here.

ESA's Education Office is organising a four day course at the ESA Academy that will take 22 university students into the fascinating world of spacecraft operations. The course will show how different 'driving' a spacecraft is from designing it.

When it comes to spacecraft, it is the launch itself that grabs all the So you want to drive a spacecrafts. Once in orbit, the next time we tend to read about the satellite is when it returns a great result or spectacular image. But spacecraft do not take care of themselves.

The unsung heroes of any space mission are the operations. They are the ones who work 24/7 to ensure that the spacecraft is in the best of health, returning the most data, and functioning at peak efficiency. In addition, it is the operators who diagnose problems with satellites and work out how to bring them back on line.

To bring this fascinating world of challenges and satisfaction to life for university students contemplating a career in the space industry, ESA is organising the Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Operations, a technical course without excessive mathematics or technical jargon. This 4 day training course takes place between 11-14 October 2016 at the ESA Academy - Training and Learning Centre, ESA Redu, Belgium.

The course will be suitable for BSc to PhD students , who have a basic knowledge of physics and want to quickly acquire a feeling for the broad spectrum of disciplines that take place in spacecraft operations.

Taught by an ESA expert from the Advanced Operations Concepts Office of ESOC (European Space Operations Centre), 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 sub-systems have been designed has a bearing on the way operations are carried out will be highlighted and discussed. The course will include a session on the physiological traps to be avoided during operations and testing.

Real stories of operational staff battling with wayward spacecraft - sometimes winning and sometimes losing - will be used wherever appropriate. And finally, the participants will take place in a challenge. They will be presented with the operations data received from satellites at the time of a problem. They will have to work out "what went wrong?" and more importantly "what should they do now?".

Students will also get to see spacecraft operations at first hand because ESA's Redu facility is a ground station featuring antennae and operations rooms. A highlight for the students will be a visit to the Proba spacecraft's operations room and meeting with ESA Operations engineers.

The deadline for applications is 4 September 2016 23:59pm CET.


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