Visit to the Facilities

Visits to ESA facilities as well as Industrial facilities are an integral part of the School Curriculum allowing the students to “believe through seeing” real facilities that relate directly to the use of optics either at laboratory level or at spacecraft level. Visits can be physical on location or virtual from the lecture hall.

ESTEC Facilities

At the end of two days we will have the opportunity to:

- physically visit the ERASMUS building that hosts ESA activities on Human Spaceflight, Microgravity research and planetary Robotics.

- visit by virtual presentation, the ESA Spacecraft Test Centre which is located at a restricted area in ESTEC. Although virtual, the presentation allows us to see the test facilities from angles that is impossible to view during a physical visit.

Industrial visits

We will visit a number of locally based Space Companies to get an impression of a real environment where space hardware is built much of it in the area of Optics. Visits will take place on Thursday 21 October afternoon and on Saturday 23 October.