The IGLUNA Field Campaign marks the conclusion of the IGLUNA student projects after designing and developing their prototypes during one academic year. The objectives of the campaign are to bring together the student projects, test them in an extreme environment, and present them to the other student teams, external experts and the general public.

Due to the Covid-19 crisis, the initially planned Field Campaign with an exhibition and control room at Verkehrshaus – Swiss Museum of Transport and a test bed on the top of Mount Pilatus in Lucerne will not be able to take place physically this summer. In spite of the current restrictions and as real space missions that have limited resources, we aim to do the best we can to ensure a proper project closure together with all involved partners.

Keeping the same dates 10-19 July, the Field Campaign will take place virtually, where all the student teams will connect from their countries to present their projects and hard work to the rest of the world. The project shows and additional space experts presentations will be live-streamed and publicly available.

Jan Wörner

European Space Agency (ESA) Director General

Friday 10 July, 11.00 – 12.00 : Inauguration

Sunday 19 July, 10.00 – 12.00 : Awarded Teams Presentations

Renato Krpoun

Head of the Swiss Space Office

Friday 10 July, 11.00 – 12.00 : Inauguration

Alexander Gerst

ESA Astronaut, German geophysicist, Expedition 40/41 (2014), Expedition 56/57 (2018)

Thursday 16 July, 17.00 – 17.45 : Presentation of the Horizons mission and Q&A Session

Philippe Ludivig

Rover Navigation Engineer, ispace

Saturday 11 July, 14.30 – 15.30 : Public presentation on Lunar robotic exploration

Claude Nicollier

Swiss Astronaut (Missions STS-46, STS-61, STS-75, STS-103), Prof. at EPFL in Space Technology

Sunday 12 July, 14.30 – 15.30 : Public presentation “1990 – 2020 : 30 years of Hubble”

Thursday 16 July, 14.30 – 15.30 : Public presentation “Moon exploration: on to the future missions”

Fabien Jordan

Founder & CEO, Astrocast

Monday 13 July, 14.30 – 15.30 : Public presentation

Timon Schild

Swiss National Trainee at Spaceship EAC, ESA

Tuesday 14 July, 14.30 – 15.30 : Public presentation “Spaceship EAC – Paving the way to the Moon”

Sebastian Lorenz

Intern at Spaceship EAC, ESA

Tuesday 14 July, 14.30 – 15.30 : Public presentation “Spaceship EAC – Paving the way to the Moon”

Sylvain Chaty

Astrophysicist at the University of Paris

Wednesday 15 July, 14.30 – 15.30 : Public presentation “Colonization of Space”

Johann Richard

Scientific Advisor at the Swiss Space Office

Sunday 19 July, 10.00 – 12.00 : Awarded Teams Presentations

Sunday 19 July, 13.00 – 14.00 : Closure Ceremony