Training Future opportunities
Satellite Communication Systems Training Course 2024
Date: 18 – 22 November 2024
Description: In today's world, space-based telecommunication is a crucial enabler of global connectivity and secure communications, underpinning a wide array of groundbreaking applications. These include essential functions such as satellite broadcasting, high-speed internet provision, and seamless mobile network coverage. Furthermore, it supports the advancement of global navigation, scientific research, remote sensing, telemedicine, transportation efficiency, educational access and more. This technology empowers us to drive innovation and societal progress across multiple dimensions. The course will be taught by experienced ESA experts. It will feature formal lectures complemented by short exercises and a group project. In the group project, participants will collaboratively design a satellite communications mission to meet current user needs, applying the insights gained from lectures and hands-on sessions throughout the week. The practical exercise will help consolidate the participants' understanding of the dynamic field of satellite communications, bridging theory with real-world application.
Post-Alpbach Summer School Event
Date: 25– 29 November 2024
Description: During Post-Alpbach Summer School, students from Summer School Alpbach design further one of the missions developed during the Summer School using the Concurrent Engineering approach. The mission is selected at the end of the Summer School by the Alpbach Summer School Jury, and all the students who participated in the Summer School are invited to apply for the Post Alpbach Summer School Event.
Concurrent Engineering Workshop
Date: 20 – 24 January 2025
Description: Concurrent engineering is a method of designing and developing products in the space sector where all subsystems are designed simultaneously making the process more efficient. During this workshop, university students learn about concurrent engineering and its benefits, taking advantage of the use of the ESA Academy’s Concurrent Design Facility (CDF). Guided by ESA experts, the students first learn to use the Open Concurrent Design Tool (OCDT) and identify design drivers. They are then divided into groups to cover the several subsystems and, together with their groups, they create a subsystem concept to later achieve an already identified mission concept using concurrent engineering.
Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Communications Training Course 2025
Date: 10 – 14 February 2025
Description: This training course will consist of lectures, group discussions, presentation of real cases and exercises. The lectures will be delivered by an ESA engineer of the Mission Operations Department of ESOC and will include real stories of operations engineers trying to rescue spacecraft in complex situations, and discussions about the implications of the way communications systems are designed, how they are used, and what problems might occur. Thanks to the OPS-SAT Space Lab team, students will be introduced to real operational maneuvres. They will simulate operations and communications with their own spacecraft with hands-on exercises.
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