Articles by Space Innovation

EPFL Engineering Industry Day 2025

The EPFL’s School of Engineering and Vice Presidency for Innovation and Impact organized the EPFL Engineering Industry Day on Thursday March 27th, 2025. This event, that has now become annual, strengthen the bridge between academia and industry, offering a dynamic platform for PhD students, researchers, professors, and industry leaders to […]

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Space Innovations’s annual meeting 2025

On March 11, 2025, we had the pleasure of hosting Space Innovation’s Annual Meeting at HEIG-VD in Yverdon-les-Bains! It was a day filled with insightful discussions, exciting demonstrations, and networking opportunities with our vibrant community of innovators. Morning highlights: After a convivial lunch, Sylvain Pasini gave us a demonstration of […]

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Innovation for advanced manufacturing and space technologies

We recently had the opportunity to visit EPFL’s M2C Center, an advanced manufacturing center where Bruno Studach and his team are driving innovation in space-ready manufacturing technologies.The Center brings together world-class laboratories, each contributing with its unique expertise:– the LAFT Lab, which masters multi-material 3D printing– Galatea Lab, a pioneer […]

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EPFL Space Center promotes Emmanuelle David to Executive Director

We are pleased to announce that Emmanuelle David has been promoted to Executive Director of the EPFL Space Center, effective February 3rd, 2025. Having successfully led eSpace since February 2020, David will now oversee the entire EPFL Space Center, including both eSpace and Space Innovation divisions, which were unified under […]

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EPFL Space Center’s MOOC: “Space Mission Design and Operations” – A journey of knowledge

Since its launch on February 24, 2016, the online MOOC, Space Mission Design and Operations, delivered by the legendary Claude Nicollier, has been followed by over 38,000 students from all over the world. More than 2,000 students have completed the exams and earned their certification! The latest updated edition, released […]

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Roundtable on Space Mechanisms and Instruments

On November 13, 2024, Space Innovation’s Interest Group for High Precision Space Mechanisms and Instruments hosted its much-anticipated roundtable event, bringing together top experts in the space sector for an insightful day of knowledge-sharing and networking. This year’s event took place at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts […]

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Successful Annual Assembly 2021

We warmly thank all those who came to our Annual Assembly 2021 on Wednesday 8 December at EPFL. It was a successful edition and we look forward to future projects with the space community! If you couldn’t join us on site, we invite you to watch the video recording here.

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