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Access to space is changing. Falling launch costs, smaller spacecraft and increasingly accessible technologies are opening opportunities that would have been almost unimaginable for student teams only a few decades ago. Today, students can design, build and test experiments, rockets and satellites to gain hands-on experience long before entering the aerospace industry.

The newly founded Hamburg Space Team (HST), brings this opportunity to Hamburg: today, around 70 students from mechanical and electrical engineering to physics and more, take genuine responsibility for complex engineering work, from design to flight

In this Lecture, we will give an inside look at how HST was built, along the way, we will present some of the projects currently being developed within HST — including student-built rocket experiments, satellite projects and launch vehicle development — and discuss the engineering and organisational challenges behind them.

The lecture will also look beyond Hamburg. Student aerospace initiatives are increasingly becoming an important part of Europe’s space ecosystem being the training grounds for future space engineers, as platforms for rapid experimentation and, in some cases, as the origins of new companies and technologies.

Ultimately, the talk asks a simple question: how far can students go when they are given the opportunity to build, test and launch for real?

About the speakers

Mika Schultes is a member of the board of Hamburg Space Team and mission Lead of BOLT. Since 2024 he has been studying for Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering at TUHH.

Thorbjörn Albrecht, Mission Lead of HANS, studying for Master of Science mechatronics at TUHH

Simon Reininghaus Head of the Board Hamburg Space Team, studying for Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering.

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Organisation by the RAeS Greener by Design Specialist Group.

Open to all and free event

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Organisation by the RAeS Greener by Design Specialist Group

Open to all and free event

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Organisation by the RAeS Greener by DesignSpecialist Group

Open to all and free event. 

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Organisation by theRAeS Greener by Design Specialist Group

Open to all and free event

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Lecture in English

Active control of air flow over aircraft wings can significantly improve aerodynamic performance. Pulsed jet actuation is a particularly promising technology – compared to steady jet injection, it can suppress flow separation much more effectively with reduced mass flow. Outcomes from the Clean Sky 2 WINGPULSE project will be presented, which was aimed at demonstrating pulsed jet actuator concepts for flow separation control that exceed the state-of-the-art – namely, those that reduce the net mass flow by a factor of at least 3. Results from wind tunnel testing and high-fidelity simulations will be described.

Mark Jabbal was Principal Investigator on the WINGPULSE project. His main research interests are in fluid flow control for drag reduction (experimental aerodynamics; optimization and vehicle system integration studies). He is also a co-opted member and Vice Chair of the Royal Aeronautical Society Aerodynamics Specialist Group. Mark has both MEng and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Manchester.

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