Austria in Space

News

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  28.07.2025 Science Academy NÖ:
  SPACE Program 2026/2027 : The two-year "Space" course offers an exciting journey through the history, science and future of space travel. From the basics of astrophysics and astronomy to rocketry, satellite technology and celestial mechanics, young people explore the physical and technical principles of space travel. Applications are possible from September 1, 2025. The application deadline is November 18, 2025, 10 a.m.

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  09.07.2025 The Living Planet Symposium 2025 put Vienna at the heart of the international space community : More than 7,000 participants from 120 countries gathered to explore Earth observation and its many applications for our planet.

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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

Who is Who

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

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  ESERO Austria : ESERO stands for "European Space Education Resource Office" and is operated in cooperation between the European Space Agency (ESA) and national partners in the individual ESA member states.

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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.

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.