ESA invites you to satnav summer school in Sweden

The 12-day course will include a full-spectrum overview of satellite navigation, starting from the theoretical basis of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), their signals and processing by receivers, and how the final ‘position–navigation–time’ solution is worked out.  

Novel elements of this year's programme will include details of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Positioning Navigation and Timing (PNT), Navigation on the Moon and Galileo’s Open Service Navigation Message Authentication. On the practical side, exercises will include receiving signals from the European Galileo system and its fellow satnav systems. Participants will also learn about business aspects, intellectual property rights, and the future of satellite navigation systems including Galileo Second Generation and beyond. 

Some of the world’s leading satnav and space experts will be lecturing during the course, including ESA’s former Director of Navigation Paul Verhoef and ESA’s former Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain. The course will be opened by Director-General Anna Rathsman of the Swedish National Space Agency, ESA’s Director of Navigation Javier Benedicto and the Head of the Joint Research Centre's Technology Innovation in Security Unit, Georgios Giannopoulos. 

The number of participants is limited to 50 – on a first-come, first-served basis – and is open to graduate students, PhDs and postdoctoral researchers, as well as young engineers and academics working within industry or agencies, aged 38 or younger. 

Organised by ESA and the JRC, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, the summer school takes place in cooperation with the Institut Supérieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, France, University of the Bundeswehr Munich in Germany, Stanford University and Oregon State University in the United States, as well as the Swedish National Space Agency as event host. 

The summer school will take place between 17-28 July 2023 in Kiruna, Sweden. Register before 14 April for a reduced early fee. For more information and registration, visit  https://www.esa-jrc-summerschool.org/.