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Austrian Space Forum will send six Analog Astronauts to Israel in October 2020 Today the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) announced the names of those six analog astronauts who will emulate a human Mars mission in Israel from mid-October to mid-November […]
16 experiments from 9 countries made it through our peer-reviewed experiment selection process for our upcoming Mars analog simulation AMADEE-20 in Oct/Nov 2020 in Israel. All experiments will be deployed according to our exploration cascade – an algorithm to define […]
Early morning, Innsbruck. While at home at this hour I would probably start my morning with a cup of coffee, I find myself running in the mountains, passing a beautiful castle. To my right is Anika – a Microbiologist from […]
How to train an analog astronaut? Anika Mehlis shares some insights of the #classof2019 trainingl
If the CPU is the brain, what’s the Heart? A Backplane or Motherboard. They “pump” data and energy through the whole system until the last small trace and provides all needed resources. It enabled the connection between components and ensures […]
Serenity is the name of our new spacesuit simulator currently being developed for our flagship program AMADEE. One may think, that for such a project mostly know-how in the areas of engineering, material science, electronics, computer science etc. necessary. However, […]
This winter semester 2018/2019 a special seminar “Construction of mobile robots” was offered by Prof. Gerald Steinbauer from the institute of software technology at the Graz University of Technology in cooperation with the Austrian Space Forum. The goal was to […]
Over the last weeks the “pre-CDR’s” (preliminary Critical Design Reviews) took place in our partner schools. The teams presented their detailed concepts & prototypes for the Serenity spacesuit to the OeWF team leads and had to answer critical questions. This […]
While chatting with a friend of mine I we started discussing our childhood aspirations. I mentioned to him that I remember wearing an old ski helmet and a coat hanger as a headset, flying my bunkbed to the Moon, and […]
Despite AMADEE-18 having taken place more than half a year ago already, there are still a lot of ongoing post-mission activities, in particular scientific analysis. In this blog, the team from the Planetary Exploration Instrumentation Lab (PIL) at York University […]
