Österreichisches Weltraum Forum Austrian Space Forum
Max Lell is currently staying with the Austrian Space Forum, doing his master thesis on the Aouda space suit simulator. In this week’s blog, he explains his research. How did you get in there and how is it to work […]
The Aouda Test Campaign 17A was performed on the spacesuits Aouda.X and Aouda.S between 2nd and 06th January 2017 in Innsbruck and Seefeld. Testing was done on various subsystems of the suit to either commission new items, requalify evolved systems […]
I learned about the OeWF in a lecture about Mars held by Gernot Groemer at the University of Innsbruck. When the time came to find a project for the bachelor thesis for my mechatronics program, I remembered Dr. Groemer mentioning […]
In July we announced a new partnership with the innovative tech startup Tespack from Finland. Tespack produces outdoor-ready, wearable solar panels which are already integrated in a backpack or can be attached to your own backpack or the smaller ones […]
Innsbruck, 7-10 April 2016 None of the analog astronauts had been back to the OeWF spacesuit laboratory since the AMADEE-15 mission, last August. So this refresher training was not only a very needed update and recap on our knowledge and […]
On Friday, October 23th an OeWF delegation drove to Kapfenberg – the 3rd largest town in Styria, Austria to visits steel manufacturer Boehler for the official hand over of the Aouda helmet. At 09:15 a.m. in the morning our OeWF […]
OeWF on tour: Water rocket workshop in Chechnya Two weeks ago, the OeWF’s inspiration zone reached out to as far as the South-West of Russia! Sophie Gruber, a member of the Forum, gave a telelecture from the suitlab in Innsbruck. […]
The ÖWF at the German Aerospace Day More than 60.000 guest visited the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne on Sunday, September 20th. During the German Aerospace Day, the DLR and the European Space Agency ESA together with their partners […]
We were put through our paces during the Analog Astronaut basic training program. The rigorous regimen was aimed at giving us a thorough grounding in all the basic skills required to successfully execute a Mars simulation mission. Specifically, the training […]
Analog astronaut Joao Lousada reports from his 1st telelecture as an analog astronaut with the High-school Collège la Chatoire, on the Island of La Reunion: When I was first asked to do a tele-lecture with the High-school Collège la Chatoire, on the Island of La Reunion, I have to confess I was slightly afraid…
