From July 30th to August 17th, 2018, the 2nd Summer Camp of APSCO Small Student Satellite (SSS) Project was held successfully in Ankara, Turkey. The summer camp was hosted by Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) and was organized by Middle East Technical University in Turkey (METU).
More than sixty (60) participants from eight (8) APSCO member states, including Bangladesh, China, Iran, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru, Thailand and Turkey, attended the opening ceremony. Dr. Mohammad Ebrahimi Seyedabadi, Director General of Department of Education and Training and Database Management of APSCO, Prof. Huang Haijun, Vice President of Beihang University and Prof. Ozan Tekinalp from Middle East Technical University made welcome speeches at the opening ceremony respectively.
Based on the successful experience of the 1st summer camp of APSCO-SSS project held in Beihang University last year, the scopes of 2nd summer school include the miniature spacecraft system design, subsystem design, miniature spacecraft engineering practice, innovation team project practice and assessment, technical visiting, etc. The summer camp not only pushed forward the APSCO-SSS project phase work, but also contributed to the capacity-building in basic space technology and multicultural exchange among APSCO member states.
In December 2016, Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) kick-offed the Student Small Satellite (APSCO-SSS) Project, which aimed to provide a basic space technology education and engineering training platform for young students, young engineers and faculties from APSCO member states. With the hand-on practice on the miniature spacecraft project, the participants from APSCO member states or “Belt & Road” countries can benefit from the basic space technology education, spacecraft research and development, satellite technology application. Beihang University, as the leading university of the APSCO-SSS project, successfully organized the 1st summer camp from August 14th to September 2nd, 2017, based on the sufficient resources of Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (China) (Affiliated to the United Nations) (RCSSTEAP).
