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Call for abstracts: 4th Symposium on Space Educational Activities

The SSEA Organising Committee invites you to submit abstracts to the 4th Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA22), a European Space Agency-led congress that will be hosted by the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech in Barcelona (Spain), next 27-29th April 2022. They would like you and your institution to come participate in what will be the bi-annual world […]

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Women4Space Conference Series: ‘Parabolic Flight to experiment plants in space’ with Lucie Poulet

Will plants be a key element for future human spaceflight missions? Have you ever wondered if plants grow differently in space? At this #Women4Space conference, Lucie Poulet will start by detailing the activities of the Space Crop Production group at NASA KSC and one activity in particular will be presented in greater details. The group

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WIA-E Barcelona – #Space4Change Conference with Alba Badia

Did you miss this fantastic event? Rewatch it here! COSMIC RESEARCH by ALBA BADIA: President and Team leader of Cosmic Research Non-profit student association focused on suborbital rockets. They are the most prolific Spanish rocketry student group in history, having launched over 35 rockets in only 5 years. Also, they serve as launch contractors during

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WIA-E Brussels leader wins prestigious iWGA award

A huge congratulations to WIA-E Brussels leader, Sweety Pate, for winning the prestigious iWoman Global Award 2021 for Science and Innovation! Sweety Pate is a Satellite Operations Systems Engineer at QinetiQ – Belgium and is involved in satellite missions – ALTIUS. She is the Technical Lead at QinetiQ for the European Space Traffic Management (EUSTM)

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Event report: ‘Surfing between Lagrange points’ by Ariadna Farrés

Last 21st of September, WIA-E Barcelona organized the eighth #Women4Space conference with the aim to give visibility to women in the aerospace sector. During this conference Ariadna Farrés, who is an expert on the impact of solar radiation pressure on orbits around Lagrange points, gave a different vision of how the Lagrange equations are used

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Event report: Stop aux remarques à la con! En finir avec le sexisme ordinaire (Stop Sexism!)

Sick of sexism in the workplace? On July 1st the Toulouse LG held an interactive workshop on how to (re)connect to our female power, empower ourselves and the women around us and get ready to respond to inappropriate remarks, gestures and situations. 12 participants of the network in Toulouse shared their respective experiences with sexism

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WIA-E Barcelona: ‘Surfing between Lagrange points’ by Dr. Ariadna Farrés

Solar sails are an alternative propulsion system that takes advantage of the pressure of solar radiation to propel a spacecraft. The impact and reflection of the photons emitted by the Sun on the surface of the sail produce a force in the opposite direction to the Sun that accelerates the spacecraft. While it may seem

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