18th student aerospace challenge
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Dassault Aviation
On June 27, the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace at Le Bourget hosted the closing day of the 18th Student Aerospace Challenge, a competition co-organized with ESA, the European Astronaut Club, ArianeGroup and the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace.
It enables students to take part in the study of a reusable, manned suborbital or even orbital vehicle on a theme chosen from among ten on offer (technical, medical, legal studies, etc.).
This year, sixteen teams from Swiss, English, Slovakian, Greek, Bulgarian, Spanish, French and Italian schools and universities took up the challenge.
The OrbitOut team from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne won the Dassault Aviation prize for its proposal to train crews for orbital spacecraft.
Sylvain Chiron, the twelfth Frenchman in space, was the day’s patron.
