Registrations are now closed. Join us for a celebration of 20 years of the EPFL Space Center! Since 2003, we have sent a CubeSat into space, hosted and launched startups such as ClearSpace and the Space Sustainability Rating, guided student teams to win international competitions and to send a computer […]
Info session objective: This session will provide a high-level overview of what Space Sustainability means: understand how can we secure the long-term usability of space and, how can we design and operate missions and space businesses with a keen focus on sustainability. Target audience: Space stakeholders (engineers, scientists, non technical managers, policy […]
Captain Jacqueline Smith is a Chief of Staff Captain's Prestigious PhD Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently pursuing research in Space Policy and Sustainability in the Aeronautics and Astronautics department at MIT in collaboration withthe Space Enabled division of the MIT Media Lab. Previously, Capt. […]
The X-ray imaging spectrometer STIX onboard ESA's flagship mission Solar Orbiter was designed and build with a Swiss lead at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). STIX is now in its fourth year of operation and has recorded so far over 45'000 solar flares. The STIX detectors designed […]
The application of Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) within the concurrent engineering process presents a viable method for assessing environmental, social and economic impacts of space missions. Despite the importance of this for embedding sustainability principles into spacecraft design, the novelty of the concept within the concurrent engineering process has meant […]
The conference will be held in English at Istituto Svizzero in Rome and online. Free entrance. Istituto Svizzero invites experts from different fields and institutions to a one-day symposium where they share and discuss their professional outlooks on near-Earth space's potential development until 2050. The goal of the symposium is […]
This year, Swissnex's annual meeting puts the spotlight on planetary thinking, featuring researchers, innovators, and artists who are unveiling new ways of looking at the relationship between humans and the planet. Programme 1:30pm - Registration 2:00pm - Welcome remarks 2:05pm - Keynote 2:15pm - Panel discussion 2:30pm - Lightning talks […]
Professional statisticians can often see issues with, and propose better solutions for, statistical methods that are used in industry; but such proposals often remain unimplemented (and therefore unused) because they are not fully sensitive to the particulars of the application. The Probability of Collision, a metric used by astrodynamicists to […]
After a successful first event in March, we are organising a second sustainable space hub coffee! We will have the opportunity to hear a summary of the PhD that Alexandre Looten recently obtained at LPAC, on the atmospheric re-entry of composite materials and design for demise of spacecrafts. D4D brings […]
