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ESA Academy Gravity-Related Research Summer School

ESA Academy launches calls for applications for the ESA/ELGRA Gravity-Related Research Summer School. The Summer School will is held usually at ESA’s Redu Centre in Belgium.

The objective of the summer school is to promote gravity-related research amongst future scientists and engineers and attract them to its multiple research opportunities available in the space sector.

This Gravity-Related Research Summer School is a joint venture between ESA and ELGRA (European Low Gravity Research Association) and is part of the ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Programme (http://www.esa.int/Education/The_ESA_Academy_is_born).

For more information please visit the ESA Education website: http://www.esa.int/Education/Apply_now_for_the_ESA_Academy_Gravity-Related_Research_Summer_School

or the news section of the ELGRA website: www.elgra.org

Andøya Rocket Range

European Space Camp

ESA sponsors students from ESA Member and Cooperating States* to attend the European Space Camp at Andøya Rocket Range, Norway..

In order to be considered for selection, applicants must: be aged between 17 and 20 years of age; study math and physics as a major subject in high school; have good oral and writing English skills.

More info: European Space Camp.

ESA Summer of Code in Space

ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) is a program run by the European Space Agency. It aims at offering student developers stipends to write code for various space-related open source software projects. Through SOCIS, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers.

More info: SOCIS.

ZARM Drop Tower

Drop Your Thesis!

The Drop Your Thesis! (DYT) programme gives university students, from bachelor to PhD level, the opportunity to perform scientific or technological research in such microgravity conditions. The gravity levels that are obtained in ZARM Drop tower experiments are as low as 10-6g and last either 4.74 seconds (when the drop tower is used in drop mode) or about 9 seconds (when catapult mode is used). This is the same level that is attained for experiments on the International Space Station, and is enough for a multitude of scientific research opportunities.

The details of this programme can be found on the ESA Education Office website at http://www.esa.int/Education/About_Drop_Your_Thesis

Rexus Rocket

Sounding Rockets and Stratospheric Balloons opportunities for University students

Fly your scientific or technological experiment on sounding rockets or stratospheric balloons. The REXUS sounding rocket has an apogee altitude between 75 - 90 km where up to 120 s of reduced gravity can be obtained. The BEXUS balloon has a flight altitude 25 - 30 km with a flight duration of 2 - 5 hours.

http://www.esa.int/Education/Rocket_Balloon_Experiments_for_University_Students

http://www.rexusbexus.net

 

Spin Your Thesis

Spin Your Thesis!

Perform scientific or technological research in hypergravity at the Large Diameter Centrifuge (LDC) at ESTEC, the Netherlands. The hypergravity levels that can be achieved by the LDC range from 1 to 20 g.

http://www.esa.int/Education/Spin_Your_Thesis!_programme