PTSDC 2022 Qualifiers to EUSDC & ISSDC

Congratulations and well done to all participants of the first National Space Design Competition in Portugal, PTSDC 2022!

37 dedicated participants across multiple regions of Portugal, 3 competing companies, 19 invaluable volunteers. 

The challenge presented to Kepler Automation, Olympus Mons Trading Company, and Earhart Advanced Industries was to design a habitat on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The purpose? A state-of-the-art science & medical research facility.

The incredible efforts put in by all across the three companies has made judging a difficult task. Alas, one company must be selected as the champions of the competition to progress onwards to the EUSDC. This year, the title of the PTSDC winning company is Kepler Automation. 

The EUSDC is proud to congratulate the following 14 students who will be representing Portugal at this year’s European Final:

Alexandre Plotean	João Lourenço
Bernardo Rodrigues	Mafalda Sampaio Blanco Gaspar
Bernardo Nunes	Marta Vasconcelos
Duarte Marques	Rafael Pereira
Joana Monteiro	Sara Filipe
Joana da Conceição Ferreira Piçarra	Tatiana Coreniuc
João Neto	Teresa Correia

As is EUSDC tradition, participants with the highest number of votes from the challenging companies join the representatives of the winning company at the European Final. In recognition of their outstanding effort, the following 4 participants have been selected:

Maria Leonor de Almeida Marinho

Rodrigo Caseiro

João Theriaga Gonçalves

Maria João Lopes

Available to the PTSDC competition was a Golden Ticket opportunity of progressing directly to the World Finals, NASA’s ISSDC held in Florida USA. Having to prove their exemplary efforts during the competition, the organising committee has decided that the recipient of this prestigious award for the PTSDC 2022 goes to:

Bernardo Rodrigues President — Kepler Automation

Congratulations! Not only to the EUSDC qualifiers and Golden Ticket recipient, but to all taking part for making this year’s edition of the PTSDC other-worldly. Special thanks to Ciencia Viva & Portugal Space Agency for your collaboration, Pedro Coimbra & Marta Goncalves for your outstanding efforts as PTSDC Lead Organisers, and to all the volunteers from across Europe for supporting us.

Plenty more SDCs in the pipeline.

Watch this space!

ITSDC 2021 Qualifiers to EUSDC & ISSDC

Congratulations and well done to all participants of the first National Space Design Competition in Europe, Italian SDC 2021!

62 dedicated participants across multiple regions of Italy, 3 competing companies, 9 invaluable volunteers. 

The challenge presented to Kepler Automation, Olympus Mons Trading Company, and Earhart Advanced Industries was to design an Aldrin Cycler between Earth and Mars. The purpose? To transport high-end business personnel between the two planets.

The incredible efforts put in by all across the three companies has made judging a difficult task. Alas, one company must be selected as the champions of the competition to progress onwards to the EUSDC. This year, the title of the ITSDC winning company is Kepler Automation. 

The EUSDC is proud to congratulate the following 21 students who will be representing Italy at this year’s European Final:

Andrea Gatto	Emanuele Cravero
Antonio Crisalli	Francesca Leonetti
Carlo Garbarino	Luciano Francesco Galizia
Chiara Pasini	Luigi Trucco
Chiara Fabbri	Marta Isola
Christian Nappi	Matteo Lombardo
Danilo Morabito	Roberto Gurnari
Diego Lopez	Samuele Cuzzocrea
Eleonora Poggi	Tiziano Pasini
Elisa Ferrari	Riccardo Maccarrone
Elisa Marino

As is EUSDC tradition, participants with the highest number of votes from the challenging companies join the representatives of the winning company at the European Final. In recognition of their outstanding effort, the following 4 participants have been selected:

Elisa Nardin

Samuele Artico

Pietro Gambini

Zakaria Ouhlichou

Available to the ITSDC competition was a Golden Ticket opportunity of progressing directly to the World Finals, NASA’s ISSDC held in Florida USA. Having to prove their exemplary efforts during the competition, the organising committee has decided that the recipient of this prestigious award for the ITSDC 2021 goes to:

Luigi Trucco Vice President of Engineering — Kepler Automation

Congratulations! Not only to the EUSDC qualifiers and Golden Ticket recipient, but to all taking part for making this year’s edition of the ITSDC other-worldly. Special thanks to Politecnico Di Milano (POLIMI) for your collaboration, Tommaso Tonina for your outstanding efforts as ITSDC Lead Organiser, and to all the volunteers from across Europe for supporting us.

Watch this space! Plenty more SDCs in the pipeline.

EUSDC 2021 & ISSDC Qualifiers

Congratulations and well done to all participants of the first continent-wide European Space Design Competition, EUSDC 2021!

68 dedicated participants, 7 European Nations, 3 competing companies, 28 invaluable volunteers. 

The challenge presented to Kepler Automation, DaVinci Meccanica, and Earhart Advanced Industries was to design a preliminary research base to be constructed in Earth orbit before heading off to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. The purpose? To explore the potential for life.

The incredible efforts put in by all across the three companies has made judging a difficult task. Alas, one company must be selected as the champions of the competition. This year, the title of the EUSDC winning company is Kepler Automation. Well done to all 23 students for convincing the judges with your winning design proposals!

Nathan Besch  President	Isabel de Avillez  Structures
Thomas Schlesser  Vice President — Engineering	Bernardo Rodrigues  Structures
Mário Daniel Soares Vilas  Vice President — Marketing & Sales	Süleyman Emre ISIK  Structures
Guillermo Baselga Gómez  HoD Structures	André Costa  Structures
Mathilde  Dziechciarz   HoD Operations	Arthur Nogueira  Structures
Mafalda Gaspar  HoD Human Factors	Rafael Pereira  Automations
Ricardo Horta  HoD Automations	Alejandro Soriano  Operations
Marina Guerra Alonso  Human Factors	Yannis Kühn  Operations
Sara Evangelio Motilla  Human Factors	Álvaro Cameo Hernanz  Systems Engineer
Lucía Madonar  Human Factors	Guilherme Sousa  CAD
Joana da Conceição Ferreira Piçarra Human Factors	João Lourenço  Business
Duarte Rito Marques  Business

 

From all participants, only 12 entrants can qualify for the World Finals this summer. From 30th July – 2nd August 2021, qualifiers from around the world will gather in person and online at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to take part at the 2021 International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISSDC). Through a rigorous selection process, the EUSDC is proud to congratulate the following 12 students who will be representing Europe at this year’s ISSDC:

Nathan Besch Kepler — President	Mafalda Gaspar Kepler — HoD Human Factors
Thomas Schlesser Kepler — VP Engineering	Mário Daniel Soares Vilas Kepler — VP Marketing & Sales
Guillermo Baselga Gómez Kepler — HoD Structures	Marina Guerra Alonso Kepler — Human Factors
Isabel de Avillez Kepler — Structures	Yannis Kühn Kepler — Operations
Mathilde Dziechciarz Kepler —HoD Operations

Traditionally, participants with the highest number of votes from the challenging companies join the representatives of the winning company. In recognition of their outstanding effort, the following students have been selected:

Maria João Lopes DaVinci — HoD Human Factors

Ioana Barbu DaVinci — HoD Structures

Leeloo Schindelhauer Earhart — HoD Structures

The following individuals have been selected as the ISSDC 2021 reserves in the stated order:

Sara Evangelio Motilla Kepler — Human Factors

André Mota Earhart —HoD Operations

Felipe Abengózar DaVinci — Structures

Once again, congratulations! Not only to the ISSDC qualifiers, but to all taking part for making this year’s edition of the EUSDC other-worldly. Special thanks to International Space University for digitally hosting, PTSpace & Ciência Viva for their outreach and enthusiasm, and to all the volunteers from across the world for supporting us.

Watch this space! Last year the SSEF was offered a few last-minute spaces to even up team sizes; we will allocate these to the reserves and those nominated for ISSDC selection.

EUSDC 2020 Qualifiers to ISSDC

EU students to the ISSDC

There will be four student spaces on the EU team that will be headed to the International SDC at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center the end of July. The team will be self funded. Announcements will be made later in the spring

EUSDC 2019 Qualifiers to ISSDC

Winning members