Austria in Space

News

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  26.09.2024 ESA Spark Funding Austria : Spark Funding supports the transfer of technology between the space and the non-space sector and is looking for projects where space technologies are used for applications on earth or where innovative terrestrial technologies deployed in space. Next deadline: 14.10.2024

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  23.09.2024 Austrian company Redeem’s new technology for solar hydrogen : Green hydrogen and hydrogenated synthetic jet fuel are expected to be key drivers of the aerospace industry’s decarbonisation process.

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  08.07.2024 The first Gender Mainstreaming Toolkit for the space sector is out! : The handbook is an activity of the Space4Women initiative of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, aimed at advancing gender equality in the space sector and in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). We hope you find inspiration in this handbook to enable more diversity, equality, and inclusion in the space sector!

Who is Who

People, companies, organisations, missions, success stories - All you need to know about Austria's space sector.

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  Space-Lock - Mechatronic components for on-board spacecraft use : A start-up from Graz has the mission to provide the world’s most affordable space mechatronic components.

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  Face to Face with Christian Hoffmann/GeoVille : In 1998, GeoVille was just a small business in Innsbruck. By now, Christian Hoffmanns company is one of the biggest players in land monitoring and Earth observation in Europe.

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  In conversation with: Dr. Stephan Mayer, Head of the ESA PB SSA : Dr. Stephan Mayer has chaired the ESA Programme Board Space Situational Awareness since September 2020. In this exclusive podcast, the Austrian talks about his tasks, Austria's role in the programme, and how ESA ensures that we are safe.

Space-Wiki

Knowledge about space.

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  What exactly is a CubeSat? : More and more satellites are being launched, mostly CubeSats. But what do they look like and what makes them so special?

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  What is Spacetech? : Upstream, downstream, satellite data - the space sector is so much more than astronaut:ing in space. But what is it all exactly?

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  How the Austromir experiments still benefit us today : The scientific experiments carried out by Franz Viehböck during the first space flight by an Austrian in 1991 as part of the "Austromir" mission on the Russian Mir space station still have benefits today.

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  About austrian satellite PEGASUS : The Earth observation satellite PEGASUS celebrates its 4th birthday in June 2021.

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  In memory of the Sentinel-6 namesake: Who was Michael Freilich? : Many people cheered live when the Sentinel-6 mission started on November 21, 2020. But Austrian space fans often asked: Why is the satellite actually called Michael Freilich? Exactly the right time to introduce the person behind the name.

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  How Franz Viehböck became the Austromir Cosmonaut : The 12th of April, the date the first human Yuri Gagarin went into space is celebrated as International Day of Human Spaceflight.