“For a few years already, ESA’s Education Office is very active in offering university students several educational opportunities related to CubeSat satellites. Up until now, ESA has completed the ‘CubeSats on the Vega Maiden Flight’ educational programme which involved twelve different CubeSat student teams that were supported by the Education Office, and of which seven student CubeSats were eventually launched on Vega on 13 February 2012. In the period between October 2012 and March 2013, ESA’s Education Office also provided support for the test campaign of the HumSat-D student CubeSat. Based on this initial experience, the Education Office launched the Fly Your Satellite! Programme in 2013. Its first edition is currently ongoing, and it aims at launching a few student CubeSats into orbit in 2016.”
