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Apr 2021
26.04.2021 - 30.04.2021: Planetary Defense Conference (PDC2021)26.04.2021 - 30.04.2021: Planetary Defense Conference (PDC2021)
Oct 2021
04.10.2021 - 31.10.2021: AMADEE-20 Mars Simulation Israel04.10.2021 - 31.10.2021: AMADEE-20 Mars Simulation Israel
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Recent OeWF blog entries
Creating a flight plan, what does that mean?
Nina Sejkora gives us an overview of the department’s main tasks and then answers a few questions so that the tasks of the team and processes are made concrete. MAIN TASKS Before the missionContact experiment teams and clarify the needs […]
The Planetary Defence Conference (PDC)
From 26.-30. April 2021 the Planetary Defence Conference will take place in Vienna for the seventh time. Actually, that was the plan. The call for flexibility reached also the PDC- Organizers, so for the first time this conference will be […]
The best pictures of the year 2020
We are writing the last days of the year 2020 – a year, no one will forget anytime soon. For the first time, we had to postpone a planned Mars simulation. Also, our outreach & education activities were affected by […]
NÜWA – A city state for 1 Mio people on Mars
How would you accommodate 1 million people on Mars? How do they get there? What do they do there? How do you guarantee the basic needs, like food, housing, water and fresh air? Which of these questions is most important? […]
Space bacteria and challenging yourself
In the evening before my Mathematics “Matura” I got a completely unexpected email: Amidst the stress of writing my final exams during a pandemic I had entirely forgotten about the application I sent to OeWF the winter before. Now I […]Countdown for Mars Simulation halted
Austrian Space Forum postpones Mars Analog Mission by one year to October 2021 Today the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) announced the postponement of its international Mars analog mission “AMADEE-20”. The simulation of a crewed mission to the Red Planet was […]This article is available in: German