European Commission Space Programme

European Commission Space Programme, June 8th 2018

The European commission had proposed on Wednesday that the EU make a large rise in investment in its space programmes from €12bn over the last seven years to €16bn for 2021 to 2027.

–          Galileo i EGNOS9.7 bn,

–          Copernicus5.8 bn,

–          Safety programmes, €500 mil,

–          GOVSATCOM – civil defense,

–           SSA/SSTSpace Situational Awareness (SSA) / Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) .

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Visit to department of Aerospace Engineering at University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt

The 7 members of the A3 team visited on the 9th of April 2018 department for Aerospace Engineering at Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt. In the company of several members of the host team, led by Dr. Carsten Scharlemann, Head of the Department, discussion was about the technical details of the CubeSat development, their experience of the PEGASUS satellite launched last year, and the CLIMB CubeSat project, which will be the first in the world to use trusters to change orbit from circular into elliptical. After the discussion, which lasted for several hours, their labs were shown, satellite testing instruments and self-developed pulsed plasma truster and the vacuum chambers where it is tested. Finally, desire for closer cooperation was expressed between A3 and AE on several projects.