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Satellite Shorts From All Over
The European Space Agency Academys CubeSat Summer School is open for
applications. Taking place over four weeks from 5 to 30 August 2024 at
ESEC-Galaxia (Transinne, Belgium), applications are now open for university
students with engineering, physics and business management backgrounds.
During the Summer School, ESA and external experts will deliver an
extensive mix of lectures and hands-on activities. The entire project
lifecycle of a satellite mission will be covered, from design to
verification, launch and operations, including typical milestone reviews
and new methodologies. Students will be introduced to legal, cybersecurity,
and economic aspects of space projects. The Summer School will even
introduce space entrepreneurship skills, offering support in devising
methods of turning a CubeSat into a viable and profitable business
opportunity. More information at
http://tinyurl.com/ANS-056-ESA-Summer-School. [ANS thanks the European
Space Agency for the above information.]
NASA is developing a plan to deorbit the International Space Station
(ISS) at the end of its lifetime, currently scheduled for 2030. Since the
356-foot-wide laboratory is too big to completely vaporize if left to
naturally burn in Earths atmosphere, the space agency intends to send a US
spacecraft to help deorbit the station and direct its reentry over the
unpopulated South Pacific. The goal is to give the ISS an extra “space tug”
to help it move more than it could with its own thrust, and guide the final
burns for ISS to re-enter Earths atmosphere. The space tug is expected to
cost $1 billion, agency officials had said earlier this year. Earlier this
year, Russia agreed to stay onboard ISS through 2028, rather than its
previous timeline of 2024, after which it may focus on building its own
station in low-Earth orbit. Other partner countries have agreed to continue
their presence through 2030, but it is not clear precisely how they will
contribute to retiring the ISS. More information at
http://tinyurl.com/ANS-056-ISS-Tug. [ANS thanks the SpaceRef.com for the
above information.]
Martians Wanted: NASA has opened the call for a simulated yearlong Mars
mission. If youre looking for an extended vacation next year, NASA is
seeking applicants to participate in its next simulated one-year Mars
surface mission to help inform the agencys plans for human exploration of
the Red Planet. The second of three planned ground-based missions called
CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) is scheduled to
kick off in spring 2025. Each CHAPEA mission involves a four-person
volunteer crew living and working inside a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed
habitat based at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston. The habitat,
called the Mars Dune Alpha, simulates the challenges of a mission on Mars,
including resource limitations, equipment failures, communication delays,
and other environmental stressors. Crew tasks include simulated spacewalks,
robotic operations, habitat maintenance, exercise, and crop growth. More
information at: http://tinyurl.com/ANS-056-Mars-Mission. [ANS thanks the
NASA for the above information.]
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