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World Biggest Analog 2025 – Picture of the Day
Oct 13th – 26th 2025, 1 mission, multiple habitats, collaborative research. The largest coalition of space professionals and organization are simulating for two weeks, how we will live and work in Space as a community. Day 02: 14 October 2025The […]
World’s largest Moon/Mars analog mission launches: “World’s Biggest Analog”
Vienna is the central hub! On October 13, 2025 the largest Moon/Mars analog mission to date launched with 17 institutions on five continents: the “World’s Biggest Analog.” From October 13 to 26, 2025, 16 Mars/Moon habitats, under the leadership of […]
What opportunities and experiences the Internship at the OeWF gave me
Hi, my name is Agáta, and I am a high school student in Austria. Last winter, whilst searching for a summer job, I came across the OeWF pupil internship. It immediately piqued my interest, and I was eager to send […]
Internship 2025: MICO-VIE Planning
My name is Titouan Beyly, I am a French engineering student at ESTACA where I am studying aeronautics. I am part of my school’s rocketry club. I learned of the OeWF internship possibilities from our school job offer website. From […]
Being an intern at the ÖWF: Building the MICO-VIENNA
My name is Margot Girard and I am an aerospace engineering student from France. I study at ESTACA, an engineering school specialized in means of transport and I found the OeWF through my school’s career center. I then went on […]
Representing Mars on Earth: GEOS24 at EGU 2025
This year, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025 in Vienna brought together over 20,000 researchers, professionals, and science communicators from around the world. I had the great pleasure of representing the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) and presented my […]
Behind the scenes in space exploration: my experience at OeWF
Interning at the Austrian Space Forum is more than just a professional experience: it’s a thrilling immersion into the world of space exploration. From Mars analog mission to cutting-edge technology and collaborations with experts from around the world, every day […]
Reflecting on the AMADEE-24 Mars Simulation: Challenges and Triumphs
On 10 March 2024, the AMADEE-24 Mars simulation of the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) was launched in the breathtaking, barren landscapes of Armenia. Over 200 scientists from 26 countries were involved with their equipment, robotic vehicles and experiments. The choice […]
AMADEE-24 Science Series: Ultra-Wideband Sensor Based Localization of a Planetary Rover
Many planetary robotics applications require (semi-)autonomous rover operation for which localization is essential. During the ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge in 2021 and more recently AMADEE-24 in Armenia in March 2024, we put a methodology where a mobile system first distributes […]