In March 2020, a European REXUS rocket will carry an experiment into space that was designed and built by a small group of students from the HES-SO.

Our special guest speaker, European Space Agency’s engineer Koen DeBeule, will talk about his engineering work at ESA as a «last-resort problem solver» and how he came to do what he does today.

His talk will be preceded by short presentations from the current and previous REXUS teams: The HADES team — the current HES-SO team — will present its innovative space capsule and their journey-to-launch campaign, and the ARES II team — the experiment flown last year — will show their scientific results and talk about their launch campaign.

An exhibition of all of the previously-flown and ready-to-be-flown hardware will be held in the foyer.

This event is sponsored by the Innovation Club, a collaboration between Uni Fribourg and HESSO Fribourg.