Press invitation
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale
Via Fontanelle 40, 47121, Forlì, Italy
19 November 2018
ESEO, the European Student Earth Orbiter, will launch into Earth orbit on a rideshare flight from California, US, on 19 November 2018.
ESEO is an educational mission by the European Space Agency. It is meant for European university student teams to acquire direct hands-on experience of a real-space project throughout all its phases, under the mentorship of professional space experts.
For ESEO, ESA teamed up with an industrial contractor, SITAEL, Italy, to build the satellite platform and coordinate the technical development of the instrumentation, subsystems and ground stations built by the students for the mission.
ESA, in collaboration with SITAEL and the University of Bologna, Italy, is pleased to invite you to the ESEO launch event on 19 November, by the premises of the University of Bologna in Forlì, Italy.
Representatives from ESA, SITAEL and the ten universities teams involved in ESEO will present the mission, its objectives and the remarkable achievements by the students to date, and watch live the video streaming of the launch from the US.
For media accreditation, registration and queries please contact:
ufficiostampa@unibo.it
LocationAula Magna
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale
Via Fontanelle 40, 47121, Forlì, Italy
Media programme
| 19 November 2018, 17:00 | |
| 17:00 | Opportunity to visit the ESEO Mission Control Room (Via Baldassarre Carnaccini, 12 – Forlì) |
| 18:30 | Start of launch event |
| 19:32 | ESEO lift-off (live streaming from US) |
| 20:00 | End of event |
| 20:00 - 20:45 | Refreshments and interview opportunities |
Related link
ESEO website
Notes
ESEO Industrial Prime Contractor
SITAEL Spa, Italy
ESEO student university teams involved in ESEO
University of Bologna, Italy
Observatory of Tartu, Estonia
Munich University of Technology, Germany
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
University of Vigo, Spain
University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Cranfield University, United Kingdom
For more information, please contact:
ESA – European Space Agency
Valeria Andreoni
Valeria.Andreoni@esa.int
T +39 069 418 07 67
SITAEL Spa
Agostino de Angelis
agostino.deangelis@sitael.com
T +39 080 532 17 96
Pietro Stama
pietro.stama@angelcompany.com
www.sitael.com
twitter.com/sitaelspa
www.linkedin.com/company/sitael-spa
www.facebook.com/SITAELspa
www.youtube.com/user/SITAELSPA
University of Bologna
Matteo Benni
matteo.benni@unibo.it
T +39 051 209 93 27
