ESA - Drop your Thesis! or Spin it?

“Drop Your Thesis!” - microgravity experiments in the ZARM Drop Tower Facility

This program will allow students to develop microgravity experiments to be performed in the ZARM Drop Tower Facility in Bremen. This facility is one of the most sophisticated and high-quality research centres of its kind in Europe and boasts a 146m high tower that gives experiments up to 9.3s of microgravity.

“Spin Your Thesis!” - hypergravity experiments in ESA’s Large Diameter Centrifuge

Large Diameter Centrifuge (LDC) in ESTEC, The Netherlands was recently developed by ESA for use in professional hypergravity research. Using the LDC students will be able to design and carry out experiments in a range of different hypergravity levels, from 1 to 20 times earth’s gravitational acceleration, for durations of minutes or even hours.

For each of the two programmes students will be supported by the ESA Education Office and scientific experts from ESA and the European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA) to both develop and finance their experiments.

More information will be online in the next few days!

Go to: www.esa.int/education  >  "Hands-on Projects"