{"id":115,"date":"2024-06-24T08:58:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T06:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/school_students_become_space_engineers_for_a_day\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:24:19","slug":"school_students_become_space_engineers_for_a_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/hu\/school_students_become_space_engineers_for_a_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Az iskol\u00e1sok egy napra \u0171rm\u00e9rn\u00f6k\u00f6kk\u00e9 v\u00e1lnak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to be a Space Engineer when you grow up? Designing, developing, and testing spacecraft sounds like a dream job! In June 2024, a group of eager secondary school students were lucky enough to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESTEC\/European_Space_Research_and_Technology_Centre_ESTEC2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Space Research and Technology Centre<\/a> (ESTEC) in The Netherlands, to experience life as Space Engineers!<\/p>\n<p>The students were winners from 24 countries taking part in ESA\u2019s CanSat competition. This saw school students design, test, and launch mini-satellites the size of a soda can! It was a real challenge to make scientific craft so small, but the teams worked hard and achieved their goals. Here are some of the winning teams, and their missions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><b>ST4A, from France:<\/b> measuring the hardness of the ground to know if a vessel can land safely.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><b>GranSat IV, from Spain<\/b>: detecting forest fires and nearby water, to help rescue services.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><b>Hermesat, from Portugal:<\/b>\u00a0an environmentally friendly CanSat using artificial intelligence to find a safe landing spot.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visiting ESTEC and becoming Space Engineers for a day was part of a celebration of all the students had achieved. They explored ESTEC and met lots of ESA space experts, before being challenged to design a mission \u2013 in just two hours! They worked well in their teams, agreeing on a plan to achieve the science goals of their mission and the specifications of their spacecraft. They needed to communicate well, and work under pressure \u2013 just like real Space Engineers!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" data-width=\"3814\" data-credit=\"ESA\" data-detail-url=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2024\/06\/Students_design_a_space_mission\" data-licence=\"ESA Standard Licence\" data-licence-url=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Terms_and_conditions_of_use_of_images_and_videos_available_on_the_esa_website\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2024\/06\/students_design_a_space_mission\/26186733-1-eng-GB\/Students_design_a_space_mission.jpg\" alt=\"Students design a space mission\"><figcaption>Students design a space mission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Finally, the students learnt about future careers in ESA. Maybe they will become Space Engineers in the future, designing and operating exciting missions and making new discoveries!<\/p>\n<p><i>Cool fact: to design missions in just two hours, the students used a special method called Concurrent Engineering, where all aspects of a mission are planned at the same time!<\/i><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" data-width=\"2890\" data-credit=\"ESA\" data-detail-url=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2024\/06\/Students_on_tour_at_ESTEC\" data-licence=\"ESA Standard Licence\" data-licence-url=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Terms_and_conditions_of_use_of_images_and_videos_available_on_the_esa_website\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2024\/06\/students_on_tour_at_estec\/26187031-2-eng-GB\/Students_on_tour_at_ESTEC.jpg\" alt=\"Students on tour at ESTEC\"><figcaption>Students on tour at ESTEC<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to be a Space Engineer when you grow up? 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