Austria in Space

News

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  25.10.2023 Students from Graz took the overall title with a self-developed hybrid rocket : The Graz student team, known as the "Aerospace Team Graz," achieved a remarkable victory by winning the overall title with their self-developed hybrid rocket named "Halcyon" in the European Rocketry Challenge (EUROC), held in Constância, Portugal. This marked their third participation in the event this year.

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  09.10.2023 Vega’s PRETTY CubeSat: unlocking satnav for Earth data : The shoebox-sized PRETTY CubeSat, flying on Europe’s next Vega launcher, will investigate a new frequency and novel observation angle to better measure the rate of climate change – at the same time as gathering radiation data on its surrounding space environment.

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  05.07.2023 ECSL NPOC Space Law Austria : On 6 June 2023, the NPOC Space Law Austria hosted a public event at the margins of the 66th session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS).

Who is Who

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

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  GATE Space - Revolutionizing In-Space Mobility : The award-winning Austrian startup is leading the new era of in-space mobility by offering scalable and cost-effective mobility for satellite missions.

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  CMG - How a Start-Up is using space data to make yachting sustainable : The Graz based Start-up Charge Made Good GmbH is intended to have a large impact on the global marine industry - with the help of space!

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  TU Wien Space Team : A group of students of the Technical University of Vienna are making their way to space.

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.