The School of Engineering of the HES-SO Valais/Wallis (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland) is this year's host university of the Swiss Space Summer Camp.

The main topic for this edition will be around "communication for micro-satellites". The participants will have the theory and key concepts behind space communication with more practical parts.

In addition, lectures on "novel materials for space" or "Space safety" will be given. Visits and presentations of space industries are foreseen as well as the guest lecture from our Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier.

Date : 27 August to 3 September 2017