The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) is since 2021 a new international organisation dedicated to radio-astronomy. Since 2015, the Swiss Community lead by EPFL has been following the project and on Jan 2022, Switzerland has become the 8th full member of this organisation. SKAO headquarters are located in Jodrell Bank […]
Take an incredible journey through the past, present, and future of human spaceflight and space exploration, as we tell the continuing story of humankind's greatest adventure. From Project Gemini to the Apollo program, to present day NASA and global space agencies commitment to landing humans including the first woman, and […]
La SATW et ses partenaires vous proposent une semaine spéciale consacrée à l'espace. Rejoignez-nous pour découvrir les acteurs qui contribuent à faire de la Suisse une nation spatiale. L'industrie spatiale mondiale est en plein essor. Un demi-siècle après la première course à l'espace qui avait conduit l'Humanité à poser le […]
La SATW et ses partenaires vous proposent une semaine spéciale consacrée à l'espace. Rejoignez-nous pour découvrir les acteurs qui contribuent à faire de la Suisse une nation spatiale. L'industrie spatiale mondiale est en plein essor. Un demi-siècle après la première course à l'espace qui avait conduit l'Humanité à poser le […]
The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) and its partners present Space Week! Join us to discover Switzerland the space nation. The global space industry is booming. Half a century after the first space race that led mankind to set foot on the Moon, new public and private actors are […]
Humans have always been a curious species and dreamt about exploring the vast expanse of space. Exploration of the unknown has been driven by the advancement of technology. It is now of utmost importance for human presence to venture beyond the low Earth orbit (LEO) and open new frontiers for […]
The LEO Kinetic Space Safety Workshop is a two-day workshop on 4-5 May, 2022 with the goal of enhancing collisional space safety in low-Earth orbit (LEO). The accelerating pace of commercial space activity and increasing frequency of debris-generating events have led to an unprecedented growth of the population of objects, […]
Free admission. Registration will be required for attendance in person. REGISTER HERE What are our cosmic origins, and how special is planet Earth? And what is the importance of cosmology and astrophysics from a human perspective and for society? Join us on 18 May 2022 at the SwissTech Convention Center […]
In 2005, a group of motivated students received the mission to do something that nobody had done before in Switzerland: build from scratch a real satellite that should weight no more than 1 kg, launch it into low-earth orbit and operate it from their lab at EPFL. They succeeded and […]
