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MSc in Space studies (MSS)

• Organisation : ISU
• Way of training : initial training
• Language: English
• Place: Strasbourg ISU
• Entry level : Bac + 4

Course Details

Objectives : Master Degree (M.Sc.)

Concerned public : Young graduates - interdisciplinary

Prerequisites : Minimum: 4 years higher education (such as French Baccalauréat +4)

Admission requirements : - Diploma or equivalent professional background
- Minimum level in English (TOEFL)
- Motivation

Duration and terms : 12 months

Partnerships with national organisations : CNES, Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg

International partnerships : Agences spatiales: NASA, ESA, JAXA,..

Course last updated: 14/05/10

Topics covered

• Engineering
  • Space environment and space mechanics
    • Physical characteristics of the space environment
    • Launcher and space vehicle dynamics, launch and re-entry trajectories, guidance, piloting, manoeuvres
    • Management of space traffic,space debris
    • Operations, integration tests, environmental tests, launch, positioning and station-keeping phase,operational phase
    • Satellite constellation
  • Architecture and technologies of embedded systems
    • Mechanical architecture, materials and structures of space vehicles, structural dynamics of spacecraft and launcher
    • Electrical architecture and power management
    • Electronic and computing architecture
    • In-space propagation, telemetry, commands
    • Space propulsion
    • Thermal architecture of spacecrafts
    • Orientation control and in-space docking
  • Launchers, space transportation systems, Launch bases, safety and security
    • Engineering, design and specific developments
    • Integration and tests
    • Launch base ( control center, launch complex, related logistics, measures facilities)
  • Satellites, Space probes, balloons
    • Engineering, specific designs and developments
    • Payload technologies, scientific instrumentation
    • Ground segments, data bases, acquisitions, transmissions, processings
  • Human flights and space stations
    • Engineering, design and development specific to human flights
    • Space stations
    • Space crew training, space medicine
  • Project management specific to space systems, associated product ans quality assurance
• Applications
  • Earth observation
    • Remote sensing and imagery
    • Surveillance, prevention of risk, regional planning
    • Cartography and geographical data systems
    • Meteorology, oceanography and climatic environment
    • Geophysics
  • Radiocommunications, guidance and location by satellite
    • Space radio communications, telephony, direct digital broadcasting and/or television by satellite, high-speed bidirectional communications and digital divide, telemedicine, remote training
    • Communication, navigation, telemonitoring for military and civil aviation
    • Location, data collection, safety, security, transportation
  • Exploration of Space
    • Understanding the Universe
    • Extraterrestrial life and intelligence
  • Embedded scientific experiments
    • Life and medical science
    • Physics and Technology
  • Space and society
    • Education, training and remote aid to training
    • Space politics
    • Space law
    • Space economics
    • Space and defence
    • Space: history and future
    • Repercussions of space exploration
  • Combination of several applications

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