Time: 10 April 2025, 15.00 - 17.00
Location: ESA ESTEC
Duration: Two hours

ESA has sites in several European countries, but the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is the largest. ESTEC is our technical heart - the incubator of the European space effort - where most ESA projects are born and where they are guided through the various phases of development.

• Developing and managing all types of ESA missions: science, exploration, telecommunications, human spaceflight, satellite navigation and Earth observation.
• Providing all the managerial and technical competences and facilities needed to initiate and manage the development of space systems and technologies.
• Operating an environmental test centre for spacecraft, with supporting engineering laboratories specialised in systems engineering, components and materials, and working within a network of other facilities and laboratories.
• Supporting European space industry and working closely with other organisations, such as universities, research institutes and national agencies from ESA Member States, and cooperating with space agencies all over the world.
   

Schedule of the Guided Tour
15.00 check in at the ESTEC gate house
15.10 welcome at the ESTEC main reception
15.20 visit of the Material Laboratories
15.50 visit of the propulsion lab (tbc)
16.10 Virtual visit of the Test Centre
16.40 Erasmus High Bay tour
17.00 End of visit, return to Space Expo.

The Tour is included to the on-site ticket of Hybrid 2025. To take part in the tour, it is necessary to book an on-site participation in Hybrid 2025.

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