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4th Symposium on Space Educational Activities – Barcelona 2022

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  • 27th April
  • 28th April
  • 29th April
  • Vèrtex Auditorium
  • Secondary Auditorium
  • Auxiliary room
08:00 AM - 09:00 AMRegistrationVèrtex Hall
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09:00 AM - 10:00 AMOpening Ceremony
10:00 AM - 11:00 AMPanel: Space Education for Everyone
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM00 – ESA Education Opening
10:10 AM – 10:20 AM61 – Space Education in Europe: Status and Prospects
10:20 AM – 10:30 AM235 – Six-year evolution of a space-inspired collaborative problem-solving study program in Finland
10:30 AM – 10:40 AM156 – Establishment of the Space Engineering Program in Hungary
10:40 AM – 10:50 AM141 – A multi-project student space association
10:50 AM – 11:00 AM176 – Implementation of Space Clubs in Kenya
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMCoffee BreakSponsored by CATAPULT
11:30 AM - 12:30 PMPanel: ESA & Space Education
11:30 AM – 11:40 AM155 – Fly a Rocket! ESA’s hands-on programme for undergraduate students
11:40 AM – 11:50 AM8 – A student perspective into ESA Academy Space Systems Engineering Training Course
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM125 – ESA Academy’s Orbit Your Thesis! programme
12:00 PM – 12:10 PM76 – Development of a Concurrent Engineering Tutorial as part of the “ESA_Lab@” initiative
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM152 – From educational programmes to professional projects: finding flight opportunities
12:30 PM - 01:30 PMPanel: Space Education programs in Europe
12:30 PM – 12:40 PM131 – The Student Aerospace Challenge: a European multidisciplinary contest and tertiary educational programme
12:40 PM – 12:50 PM214 – Student perspective and lessons learned from participating in the European Rover Challenge 2021
12:50 PM – 01:00 PM208 – Experiment collaboration program during a Martian analogue mission to introduce young students to human space exploration
01:00 PM – 01:10 PM268 – University of Nottingham Student Space Activities to Enrich the Traditional Curriculum
01:10 PM – 01:20 PM26 – CANSAT Competition 2020: Best technical development by OrbiSat team
01:30 PM - 02:30 PMLunch Break
02:30 PM - 03:00 PMKeynote Presentation: Fatoumata Kébé
03:00 PM - 03:45 PMDiscussion Panel: Space Entrepreneurship – Challenges and investmentsWith Rafel Jordà, Mònica Roca and Laura González
03:45 PM - 04:15 PMPoster Flash Talks
04:15 PM - 08:00 PMExperiments and Workshops at UPC Terrassa
11:30 AM - 12:30 PMPanel: Small-sats applications I
11:30 AM – 11:40 AM29 – TOLOSAT project: Gravimetry and Communication
11:40 AM – 11:50 AM175 – RITA: A 1U multi-sensor Earth observation payload for the AlainSat-1
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM86 – Meteor observation with the SOURCE CubeSat – Developing a simulation to test on-board meteor detection algorithms
12:00 PM – 12:10 PM118 – Development of a CubeSat CLIMBing to the Van-Allen Belt
12:30 PM - 01:30 PMPanel: Small-sats applications II
12:30 PM – 12:40 PM264 – On-board Image Classification Payload for a 3U CubeSat using Machine Learning for On-Orbit Cloud Detection
12:40 PM – 12:50 PM246 – Development of Commercial-Off-The-Self Imaging Payload for Cloud Coverage Monitoring
12:50 PM – 01:00 PM193 – Development of a multi-payload 2U CubeSat: the Alba project
01:00 PM – 01:10 PM107 – Further evidence of the long-term thermospheric density variation using 1U CubeSats
01:10 PM – 01:20 PM181 – ERMES: Design and preliminary simulations for an autonomous docking manoeuvre
01:30 PM - 02:30 PMLunch Break
03:00 PM - 03:45 PMDiscussion Panel: Successful space educational activities 
11:30 AM - 12:30 PMPanel: Solar System exploration
11:30 AM – 11:40 AM293 – Designing Greenhouse Subsystems for a Lunar Mission: The LOOPS-M Project
11:40 AM – 11:50 AM169 – AMORE – Mission concept overview for a progressively independent and self-sustainable lunar habitat
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM55 – DEAR project: Lunar Dust Surface interactions, Risk and Removal investigations
12:00 PM – 12:10 PM314 – Mission design of a Exploratory and Sample Return Mission from Venus’ Clouds
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM203 – Domi Inter Astra (DIA) Moon Base: an Interdisciplinary approach for cooperation to build a near-future Moonbase and how to use it as an educational tool
12:30 PM - 01:30 PMPanel: Solar System science
12:30 PM – 12:40 PM39 – Analysis of planetary spacecraft images with SPICE
12:40 PM – 12:50 PM191 – TEASPOON: a once in a lifetime opportunity to Sedna
12:50 PM – 01:00 PM104 – Mubody, an astrodynamics open-source Python library focused on libration points
01:00 PM – 01:10 PM233 – Demonstrating Cosmological and Doppler Redshift in the Classroom
01:30 PM - 02:30 PMLunch Break
  • Vèrtex Auditorium
  • Secondary Auditorium
  • Auxiliary room
08:30 AM - 09:00 AMRegistration
09:00 AM - 09:30 AMKeynote Presentation: Reinhold Ewald
09:30 AM - 11:00 AMPanel: Space Education at University I
09:30 AM – 09:40 AM115 – Blended-Learning Educational Concept for Earth Observation at University Level
09:40 AM – 09:50 AM324 – Engineering and Management of Space Systems (EMSS)- an international joint Master’s double-degree program
09:50 AM – 10:00 AM138 – Space Games: Evaluating Game-Based Virtual Reality in Higher Education
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM179 – From Soyuz-docking manoeuvres to microalgae cultivation: hands-on trainning for Master’s students
10:10 AM – 10:20 AM92 – An example of Spatial Education in Spain: a master in space based on Project-Based Learning (PBL)
10:20 AM – 10:30 AM129 – Establishing Thriving University-Level Space Education
10:30 AM – 10:40 AM25 – Design and methodology for a Remote Sensing course
10:40 AM – 10:50 AM316 – Trade-Off between Concurrent Engineering Software Tools for utilisation in Space Education and beyond
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMCoffee BreakSponsored by CATAPULT
11:30 AM - 12:30 PMPanel: Space Education at University II
11:30 AM – 11:40 AM350 – ASCenSIon Innovative Training Network: mid-term overview and lessons learned
11:40 AM – 11:50 AM133 – UPC NanoSat-Lab – Past, Present and Future Activities
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM295 – Teaching computational thinking to space-science students
12:00 PM – 12:10 PM41 – Trends and Insight in the educational need of the space sector from a targeted audience of alumni of an interdisciplinary post-master education program
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM139 – Space Education: Challenges and Strategies in Teaching Space Policy to Technical University Students
12:30 PM - 01:30 PMPanel: Space Education initiatives I
12:30 PM – 12:40 PM197 – Asociación Aeroespacial Cosmos: educational impact and returns of a three-year-old student aerospace association
12:40 PM – 12:50 PM245 – Simulating Atmospheric Turbulence: Code Development and Educational Applications
12:50 PM – 01:00 PM113 – Challenge of teaching complex, end-to-end space system design and development process: Earth Observation Satellite System Design training course
01:00 PM – 01:10 PM36 – gLAB hands-on education on satellite navigation
01:10 PM – 01:20 PM80 – SAR2 – An Augmented-Reality App for Exploration of Principles of Synthetic Aperture Radar
01:20 PM – 01:30 PM100 – Moon Rover Challenge. An educational space robotics resource to teach programming and promote space careers at secondary education levels
01:30 PM - 02:30 PMLunch Break
02:30 PM - 04:00 PMInstitution and Industry Talks
02:30 PM – 02:45 PMESA HR
02:45 PM – 03:00 PMGeneralitat Catalunya
03:00 PM – 03:15 PMGMV
03:15 PM – 03:30 PM GOMSPACE
03:30 PM – 03:45 PMOpenCosmos
03:45 PM – 04:00 PMSateliot
04:00 PM - 04:30 PMPoster Flash Talks
04:30 PM - 05:00 PMCoffee BreakSponsored by CATAPULT
05:00 PM - 08:00 PMFree Afternoon (optional visits)
08:00 PM - 10:00 PMGala Dinner
09:30 AM - 11:00 AMPanel: Small-sats in Education I
09:30 AM – 09:40 AM225 – FlatSat Workshops Teaching Fundamental Electronics Skills for CubeSat Building
09:40 AM – 09:50 AM89 – A Flexible CubeSat Education Platform Combining Software Development and Hardware Engineering
09:50 AM – 10:00 AM236 – 3Cat-4 Mission, 1-Unit CubeSat for Earth Observation: Evaluation on the qualification and production during Phase D
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM146 – A selection of lessons learned from phase C/D of CubeSat projects of the Fly Your Satellite! programme
10:10 AM – 10:20 AM286 – Development and Flight Results of TalTech University CubeSat Mission
10:20 AM – 10:30 AM122 – Space Communication System for Education
10:30 AM – 10:40 AM126 – Update on the status of the Educational Irish Research Satellite (EIRSAT-1)
10:40 AM – 10:50 AM165 – Design Challenges, and Outcomes of Building a Satellite the size of a Soda Can
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMCoffee BreakSponsored by CATAPULT
11:30 AM - 12:30 PMPanel: New Space opportunities
11:30 AM – 11:40 AM174 – What They Want and What They Need: The New Role of the Jurist in Assisting the Young Space Companies
11:40 AM – 11:50 AM311 – Competition, Research, and Extension: The three approaches to the Popularization of Small Satellites in the Alto Paraopeba Region in Brazil
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM292 – Nanospace and Open-source Tools for CubeSat Preliminary Design: Review and Pedagogical Use-case
12:00 PM – 12:10 PM358 – SGAC Global Satellite Tracking Initiative
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM289 – Development of a Low-Cost Ground Segment Capable of Receiving Data from Nanosatellites: a Partnership between Brazil and Portugal

12:30 PM - 01:30 PMPanel: Small-sats in Education II
12:30 PM – 12:40 PM171 – Lessons learned during the development of LEDSAT from the students of the S5Lab
12:40 PM – 12:50 PM109 – A Model-Based Systems Engineering Approach to Space Mission Education of a Geographically Disperse Student Workforce
12:50 PM – 01:00 PM58 – Developing a 3U CubeSat Engineering Model – FlatSat & Chassis Design
01:00 PM – 01:10 PM82 – Attitude control research with educational nanosatellites
01:10 PM – 01:20 PM285 – Flight Hardware and Software Operations Performance Review for BAMMsat-on-BEXUS – a BioCubeSat Prototype Flown on BEXUS30
01:30 PM - 02:30 PMLunch Break
09:30 AM - 11:00 AMPanel: Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 in Space Education
09:30 AM – 09:40 AM153 – ESA Academy Activities during COVID-19
09:40 AM – 09:50 AM219 – Adaptation of the AcubeSAT nanosatellite project into remote working during the COVID-19 era
09:50 AM – 10:00 AM185 – A story about how the novel ROSPIN Academy programme is bringing space education to the Romanian youth in the pandemic context
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM224 – A multi-perspective comparison of ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Programme experiences before and throughout COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of 6 students
10:10 AM – 10:20 AM94 – Potential application of a measurement tool for quality assurance of E-Learning content to the new MSc in Aerospace Engineering
10:20 AM – 10:30 AM145 – Lessons-learned from Teaching Satellite Operations in a Novel Hands-on Student Project Utilizing In-orbit Spacecraft During the COVID-19 Pandemic
10:30 AM – 10:40 AM148 – The Space Station Design Workshop goes digital – opportunities and challenges during pandemic-times
10:40 AM – 10:50 AM248 – How to Manage a Rocketry student project in full quarantine
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMCoffee BreakSponsored by CATAPULT
11:30 AM - 12:30 PMPanel: Space and health
11:30 AM – 11:40 AM230 – Artery In Microgravity (AIM): Assembly, Integration, and Testing for a Student Payload for the ISS
11:40 AM – 11:50 AM297 – The effect of spaceflight on the otolith-mediated ocular counter-roll
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM112 – Hypergravity induces changes in physiology, gene expression and epigenetic in zebrafish
12:00 PM – 12:10 PM296 – Proposal of studies to verify the variation in functionality of cytochrome P450 2E1 in microgravity

12:30 PM - 01:30 PMPanel: Space for sustainability, equity and diversity
12:30 PM – 12:40 PM77 – Spazio allo Spazio
12:40 PM – 12:50 PM140 – Hypatia I: a multi-generational and multi-disciplinary crew of female analog astronauts dedicated to space research, scientific outreach, and promotion of female role models in space careers
12:50 PM – 01:00 PM159 – JSRI Space Design Competitions: Education and Outreach for Emerging Space Countries
01:00 PM – 01:10 PM275 – Earth observation education for Zero Hunger: A Massive Open Online Course towards achieving SDG#2 using EO
01:10 PM – 01:20 PM253 – Developing low-cost, reusable solar observation platforms to advance sustainable heliophysics research
01:30 PM - 02:30 PMLunch Break
  • Vèrtex Auditorium
  • Secondary Auditorium
  • Auxiliary room
08:30 AM - 09:00 AMRegistration
09:00 AM - 09:30 AMKeynote Presentation: Jordi Puig-Suari
09:30 AM - 11:00 AMPanel: Experiments under microgravity conditions
09:30 AM – 09:40 AM4 – Challenge-Based Learning and the Barcelona ZeroG Challenge: A Space Education Case Study.
09:40 AM – 09:50 AM48 – Supporting a ISS experiment as PhD students: a case study of the PARTICLE VIBRATION project
09:50 AM – 10:00 AM349 – OSCAR-QUBE: Student made diamond based quantum magnetic field sensor for space applications
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM45 – The “Effect of Marangoni convection on heat transfer in Phase Change Materials” experiment, from a student project to the International Space Station
10:10 AM – 10:20 AM226 – Lotus: Testing origami-Inspired Structures in Microgravity
10:20 AM – 10:30 AM256 – The LEOniDAS Drag Sail Experiment on the 2021 ESA Fly Your Thesis! Parabolic Flight Campaign
10:30 AM – 10:40 AM331 – A 3-axis Stabilisation Platform to Improve Experiment Conditions in Parabolic Flights
10:40 AM – 10:50 AM260 – Lessons Learned when Developing a High Performance Attitude Controlled Platform to Achieve Microgravity for Low-Cost Experiments
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMCoffee BreakSponsored by CATAPULT
11:30 AM - 12:30 PMPanel: Space Education initiatives II
11:30 AM – 11:40 AM244 – 3D printed telescopes: an interesting tool for teaching Astronomy, Science and Technology
11:40 AM – 11:50 AM63 – Educational activities with Arduino to learn about astronomy
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM50 – The Sat-Comms Game: teaching a complex subject for interdisciplinary audiences
12:00 PM – 12:10 PM13 – Come fly with us: services provided by the Space Weather Education Centre
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM173 – The role of the key educational paths for ESA new member states as a risk reduction index for the newcomers.
12:30 PM - 01:30 PMPanel: Educating space for young students
12:30 PM – 12:40 PM207 – Finestres al cel
12:40 PM – 12:50 PM70 – Cosmic Call Tech – A hands-on space radio workshop for students in secondary education
12:50 PM – 01:00 PM15 – Design and implementation of space educational activities to motivate young students in Catalonia.
01:00 PM – 01:10 PM202 – Collaborative Space Design project: A student’s experience
01:10 PM – 01:20 PM327 – Space education activities at the Romanian Science Festival
01:20 PM – 01:30 PM56 – Monitoring natural phenomena from the classroom with Edusat. Proposal of a teaching guide (and support material)
01:30 PM - 02:30 PMLunch Break
02:30 PM - 03:00 PMKeynote Presentation: Nicol Caplin
03:00 PM - 03:45 PMDiscussion Panel: Space for SocietyWith Sabrina Alam, Nanda Rea and Jose Luis De Augusto
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03:45 PM - 04:30 PMClosing Ceremony
09:30 AM - 11:00 AMPanel: Small-sats technology I
09:30 AM – 09:40 AM218 – Montsec Ground Station
09:40 AM – 09:50 AM136 – Deployable Fresnel Zone Plate antenna for CubeSats
09:50 AM – 10:00 AM170 – Deployment mechanism for an L-Band Helix antenna on-board the 3Cat-4 1U CubeSat
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM73 – EIRFLAT-1: A FlatSat platform for the development and testing of the 2U CubeSat EIRSAT-1
10:10 AM – 10:20 AM355 – STAR-XL: Student Transponder for Satellite Ranging on X & L-band
10:20 AM – 10:30 AM62 – Experiences in Firmware Development for a CubeSat Instrument Payload
10:30 AM – 10:40 AM237 – Development of a Proof-of-Concept Space Propulsion System for Nano-satellite applications using Additive Manufacturing
10:40 AM – 10:50 AM240 – Design and Development of the Re-Entry Sensor System for the CubeSat Mission SOURCE.
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMCoffee BreakSponsored by CATAPULT
11:30 AM - 12:30 PMPanel: Small-sats technology II
11:30 AM – 11:40 AM252 – The Structural Analysis of AlainSat-1: An Earth Observation 3U CubeSat
11:40 AM – 11:50 AM322 – Attitude Determination and Control System
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM178 – Thermal Characterization Testing of a Robust and Reliable Thermal Knife HDRM (Hold Down and Release Mechanism) for CubeSat Deployables
12:00 PM – 12:10 PM69 – Design and calibration process of solar sensors for small satellite missions
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM117 – Development and Testing of a 3U+ CubeSat PCDU for SOURCE
12:30 PM - 01:30 PMPanel: Small-sats technology III
12:30 PM – 12:40 PM119 – Improved Sensor Fusion for Flying Laptop Based on a Multiplicative EKF
12:40 PM – 12:50 PM24 – Mission analysis of nanosatellite constellations with OpenSatKit
12:50 PM – 01:00 PM317 – Designing Avionics for Lasers & Optoelectronics
01:00 PM – 01:10 PM310 – Assessment of a machine-vision-assisted test bed for spacecraft magnetic cleanliness analysis
01:10 PM – 01:20 PM342 – Mechanical Design and Deployment of a Quasi-Rhombic Pyramid Drag Sail for Safe De-Orbit of a 3U Cubesat
01:30 PM - 02:30 PMLunch Break
09:30 AM - 11:00 AMPanel: REXUS/BEXUS
09:30 AM – 09:40 AM57 – Testing campaign for ECRIDA: the UV resin 3D printer flying on REXUS
09:40 AM – 09:50 AM111 – BEXUS30 – ELFI: Measuring Schumann resonances in the atmosphere
09:50 AM – 10:00 AM281 – Lessons learnt during the REXUS program on how to manage a student project
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM102 – Suborbital Autorotation Landing Demonstrator on REXUS 29
10:10 AM – 10:20 AM47 – An investigation into cold weld adhesion for spacecraft repair after a space debris impact using space education based sub-orbital sounding rocket platform
10:20 AM – 10:30 AM194 – From BEXUS to HEMERA: The application of lessons learned on the development and manufacturing of stratospheric payloads at S5Lab
10:30 AM – 10:40 AM40 – SDR Helix Antenna Deployment Experiment (SHADE) on board BEXUS
10:40 AM – 10:50 AM172 – O-Zone: affordable stratospheric air dynamic sampling device
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMCoffee BreakSponsored by CATAPULT
11:30 AM - 12:30 PMPanel: Rocketry I
11:30 AM – 11:40 AM142 – Findings from the ESA Education Fly a Rocket Campaign – Sensor Experiments Team
11:40 AM – 11:50 AM340 – Selection Criteria for Parachutes of Student-Built Sounding Rockets
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM7 – Final testing, pre-launch activities, launch and post-launch analysis of a sounding rocket made by students in Spain
12:00 PM – 12:10 PM323 – Design, Manufacture, and Validation of a Student-Made Ringsail Parachute for Sounding Rocket Recovery
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM238 – Ice Moon Research – A phenomenon called plume

12:30 PM - 01:30 PMPanel: Rocketry II
12:30 PM – 12:40 PM318 – Fly a Rocket! Programme: Assembling, Testing and Post-Flight Review of a Sounding Rocket Payload
12:40 PM – 12:50 PM44 – Design and optimization of a rocket structure following the requirements for the European Rocketry Challenge (EUROC) to be fabricated using additive manufacturing
12:50 PM – 01:00 PM85 – Progress of the Development of a Two-Stage Supersonic Rocket within a Student’s Association
01:00 PM – 01:10 PM346 – Analysis of the Effectiveness of Sensors to Fulfil Scientific Cases in the Fly a Rocket! Campaign
01:30 PM - 02:30 PMLunch Break