Structures conference

More than 500 participants attended the 12th European Conference on Spacecraft Structures, Materials and Environmental Testing, hosted at ESA’s technical centre at Noordwijk, the Netherlands, on 20–23 March 2012, with a total of 218 papers presented. A total of 218 papers in addition to , posters and several technical exhibitions were featured at the conference, which was co-organised by ESA’s Structures and Mechanisms Division (TEC-MS), the French space agency CNES and the German Aerospace Center DLR.