
ACE
ACE presentation
The Astronaute Club Européen (ACE) is an association which was created on December 3rd, 2005 and located in Paris (Aéroclub de France,
Paris 16).
The founding members are :
- Jean-Pierre Haigneré
- Laurent Gathier
- Alain Dupas
Several personalities from aerospace sector joined ACE to support the association and bring their expertise (European astronauts, industrials, etc.).
ACE aims to promote a more proactive participation of the general public to the rapid growth of private human spaceflights. This is the reason why, ACE is committing to encourage all initiatives to develop suborbital and orbital activities aiming to fly private space explorers.
Since its creation, ACE has already participated to :
- Book publications (Ex : Embarquer dès demain pour l’espace)
- Conferences organization (IAA, IAF, etc.)
- Space events
The reasons to promote the Student Aerospace Challenge :
In the goal to promote private human spaceflights, the ACE whishes to attract talented students towards this subject. The Challenge provides a wonderful occasion to gather students coming from very different environment around the ACE projects and to show them the challenges of this new aerospace sector.
Contact
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Platform access
Access to the download platform.
(For registered teams only).
Work instructions
To check carefully before beginning the project.
Who can apply to the Challenge?
The Challenge aims to European college students.
If you are currently studying any of the following subjects, the Challenge is for you:
- Mechanical engineering
- Aerospace engineering
- Economy
- Law
- Communication
- Design
- Medicine
- Etc.
How to take part?
With the agreement of their teaching institution, teams (two to five students) can apply online, on this website, to work on one of the 10 Work Packages proposed by the Challenge. These projects can be led completely autonomously ...