This project offers schoolchildren a unique opportunity to:
☆ Work with real space technologies. ☆ Gain hands-on experience from leading experts. ☆ Explore and define their future career paths.
Project Objectives:
🔹 Help students choose their university and academic direction 🔹 Showcase the exciting world of space research 🔹 Provide hands-on experience in STEM fields
Format:
📚 6 sessions combining lectures and practical work 👩🔧 4 working groups tackling different space mission challenges
The sessions take place in a dynamic atmosphere. Students dive into real-world challenges of the space industry - from satellite orientation systems to the intricacies of scientific-technical council meetings.
The participants don't just learn how spacecraft determine their position in space - they get hands-on experience with orientation test benches, master spatial coordinate systems, and even develop effective teamwork techniques.
The CubeSat module—a miniature satellite—particularly captured the students' interest, vividly demonstrating how even the slightest inaccuracies can affect spacecraft performance. The young participants saw firsthand that even a small satellite requires watchmaker-level precision.
This inaugural session launched a series on space data processing. The students now face an exciting array of challenges ahead: analyzing telemetry data, processing Earth observation satellite imagery, and developing their own projects under the guidance of SINP and faculty of cosmic research MSU scientists.
Such projects blur the line between school curriculum and cutting-edge science. Among these young minds may well be future designers of interplanetary stations or pioneers of revolutionary space technologies.
After all, space isn't some distant realm. It begins right here on Earth – in classrooms where curiosity meets innovation, and in young imaginations that dare to reach for the stars.