ESA Open Day at ESTEC 2023: Registration now open

To attend the ESA Open Day at ESTEC for all guests, please join your tickets here.

One individual can register for as much as 4 entrance tickets per reserving.

As a result of we’re obliged to restrict the whole variety of guests, to make sure an awesome expertise for all who do attend, we urge you to e book early to keep away from disappointment.

ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is ESA’s technical centre, and the one largest Company institution.

In operation for effectively over half a century, that is the place new ESA missions are born and novel applied sciences are investigated. Accomplished house missions are additionally evaluated right here forward of flight, in Europe’s largest satellite tv for pc testing facility.

This 12^th annual ESA Open Day at ESTEC is your likelihood to fulfill house scientists and engineers to search out out about all features of Europe’s work off the planet, together with posing inquiries to the specialists at our House Residents Discussion board.

ESA astronauts André Kuipers and Thomas Reiter will likely be right here for talks and autograph periods, together with John McFall, UK Paralympian athlete and member of ESA’s astronaut reserve.

Cosplay is welcome: this 12 months’s theme is ‘Science Fiction Will get Actual’, highlighting how science fiction has impressed scientists and engineers to hitch ESA, and switch as soon as imaginary ideas into science reality.

Guests may have a uncommon likelihood to view ESA’s subsequent deep house mission earlier than launch: at the moment starting checks on the ESTEC Take a look at Centre, the Hera mission for planetary defence will likely be lifting off in the direction of the distant Dimorphos asteroid subsequent 12 months.

We will likely be publishing the total programme of points of interest, occasions and lectures later this month.

Going down as a part of the NL House Campus’s Space Week, the ESA Open Day can also be partnering with Dutch Weekend van de Wetenschap. 

ESTEC’s year-round customer centre Space Expo will even be taking part within the Open Day, together with a full schedule of occasions and talks from Space Rocks, celebrating the artwork and tradition of science and house.

André Kuipers will formally kickstart the NL MOONSHOTS ’24 programme, powered by the Netherlands Space Office: a journey of a lifetime open to all scholar pioneers primarily based within the Netherlands wherein they will provide you with loopy concepts regarding house.

Annually 1000’s of tourists attend the ESA Open Days within the Netherlands. Sunday’s common Open Day is preceded by an Open Day for individuals with a incapacity on Saturday, the day earlier than, permitting them to discover the sprawling web site at their very own tempo – as a result of house is for everybody.