CNES Challenges Students with “Lance le Futur” Competition to Invest the Space Transportation of Tomorrow

PARIS (CNES PR) — On May 23, 2022, CNES “Launches the Future” with an ambitious student competition aimed at imagining, inventing, modeling and prototyping the space transport of tomorrow. Candidates will have until November 2, 2022 to submit their applications and try to win a unique experience with CNES.

Through this competition, the CNES offers the opportunity to French higher education establishments to mobilize around an innovative technological project and to allow their students (from bac +2) to discover and deepen their knowledge in the field of space by trying to meet the great challenges of tomorrow. It is also an opportunity for the French Space Agency to strengthen its links with students and the academic community in order to grow the French space ecosystem and bring out vocations.

The projects submitted must lead to concrete proposals on the following issues:

– The eco-responsible launch base of the future
– The zero-carbon launcher
– Solutions for deorbiting or reusing space debris
– Transport solutions between Earth orbits
– Transport solutions to the Moon or its orbit
– Interplanetary transport optimization solutions – Transport solutions in orbit around another planet

The 10 best candidates will be invited to come and pitch their project at Ground Based Space Facilities (GBSF) 2022, an event organized by CNES which brings together all the actors of launch bases and test facilities around the world, which will be held from December 6th to 8th.

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