OeWF Blog

Fresh from the press – the MARS2013 special edition of “Astrobiology”

The science journal Astrobiology just published a special edition of MARS2013 simulation.

SpaceUpVienna – First SpaceUp Conference in Austria

OeWF social media team lead @olidax reports about the 1st SpaceUp in Austria.

Yuri’s Night 2014: Revealing the TiuTerra Crystal

Two Worlds. One Crystal. During the World Space Week 2013 we invited the public around the world to send us their rock samples. In Austria we cominbed all samples incl. a sample from Antartica and the deep see together with […]

Yuri’s Night 2014: twice in red-white-red

Ever since 2001, the 12th of April sees worldwide celebrations to honor the first manned space flight of Yuri Gagarin. This year, already 70 events in more than 20 countries are registered. Two of those will take place in Austria: […]

OeWF Aouda.X presentation at ESA EAC

Last week a delegation of members of the Austrian Space Forum travelled to Cologne for an Aouda.X spacesuit-simulator presentation at ESA’s European Astronauts Centre (EAC). We arrived on Tuesday evening following a dinner with “Doctor Moon” Prof. Dr. Walter Kühnegger […]

OeWF handing over Earth Master Sample to Swarovski

It was the October 2013, during the busy time of World Space Week, when the OeWF announced a great project together with the famous jeweler, the Swarovski Crystals Company. Together Swarovski and the OeWF started a call to the public […]

The OeWF Spacesuit lab on CNNs “Make.Create.Innovate.”

The Spacesuit Laboratory of the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) was recently visited by reporters of the CNN show “Quest means Business: Make.Create.Innovate”. If you missed yesterdays report on the OeWF Spacesuit lab and Aouda.X on CNN you can now watch […]

ÖWF fliegt Sojuz-ISS Dockingmanöver in Stuttgart !

400 Erstsemestrige Studenten die sich alljährlich für Raumfahrttechnik inskribieren, 167 Mitarbeiter und ein Jahresbudget von 10 Millionen Euro – das ist das Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme der Universität (IRS) Stuttgart im Raumfahrtzentrum Baden-Würtemberg: Grund genug für eine Delegation des ÖWF diese […]

BBC FOCUS magazine featuring our Mars Analog Research

Aouda.X and MARS2013 featured on 4 pages in Februar 2014 edition.

The best pictures of the OeWF year 2013

On the last day of 2013 the Austrian Space Forum takes a look back to review the past working year.  2013 was an exciting, intense year with two major missions (MARS2013 simulation in the Nothern Sahara in Morocco and the […]