2nd Electric Propulsion Summer School (1-3 April 2025)

1 Apr 2025, 09:00 → 3 Apr 2025, 17:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Tennis Hall (ESTEC)

Eduard Bosch Borras, Kaethe Dannenmayer (ESA), Stéphane Mazouffre (CNRS ICARE laboratory), Thomas Trottenberg

We are pleased to invite you all to join the 2nd European Summer School on Electric Propulsion for Spacecraft.

The 2nd EP Summer School will take place at ESA-ESTEC premises in Noordwijk (The Netherlands) from the 1st to the 3rd of April 2025.

The 3-day Summer School will propose a series of lectures about EP and its application given by experts in the field. The program will cover fundamental aspects, various technologies, numerical simulations, diagnostics and examples of missions using EP (detailed program and speakers available here).

The Summer School will be a unique opportunity for young Bachelor, Master and PhD students but also researchers and engineers to learn, meet peers, discuss advances and perspectives as well as to visit the ESA Propulsion Laboratory and other ESA facilities.

The Summer School is open to participants from ESA Member States, Associate Member States and Cooperating States: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/Member_States_Cooperating_States

Registration will open on 02/12/2024 and will be limited to 70 participants, first come, first served.

The registration fee for the Summer School is 300 €. The fee includes lectures, lunches, coffee breaks and a social event.

For this edition there will be 3 scholarships available thanks to ESA Academy. 

We look forward to see many of you at this great event!

Stéphane Mazouffre, Thomas Trottenberg, Kaethe Dannenmayer & Eduard Bosch Borràs
Organizers of the 2nd Electric Propulsion Summer School 2025

Tuesday, 1 April

09:00 → 09:30 Introduction to the 2nd Electric Propulsion Summer School

J. Mansouri, J. González del Amo

Conveners: Jamila Mansouri (ESA), José González (ESA)

09:30 → 10:30 Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion

Convener: Stéphane Mazouffre (CNRS)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Hall Effect Thrusters

Convener: Laurent Garrigues (Université Toulouse - Paul Sabatier)

12:00 → 13:00 Gridded Ion Engines

Convener: TBC .

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:00 FEEP and Electrospray

Convener: David Krejci (ENPULSION)

15:00 → 16:00 MPD

Convener: Georg Herdrich (IRS)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion

Convener: Eduard Bosch Borràs (ESA)

Wednesday, 2 April

09:00 → 10:00 Testing and Facilities

Conveners: Eduard Bosch Borràs (ESA), Käthe Dannenmayer (ESA)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 12:30 EP Diagnostics

Conveners: Käthe Dannenmayer (ESA), Stéphane Mazouffre (CNRS), Thomas Trottenberg (University of Kiel)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:30 Numerical Simulations: Fluid Models

Convener: Eduardo Ahedo (UC3M)

14:30 → 15:30 Numerical Simulations: PIC Models

Convener: Laurent Garrigues (Université de Toulouse - Paul Sabatier)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 Development and Qualification

Convener: Käthe Dannenmayer (ESA)

18:00 → 21:00 Social Event Dinner

Galerie Cafe Leidse Lente
Haagweg 4, 2311 AA Leiden

Thursday, 3 April

09:00 → 10:00 Electric Propulsion Mission

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 12:30 Visit to ESA facilities

EPL
Erasmus Center

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Electric Propulsion in Europe

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 16:00 Closure of the 2nd Electric Propulsion Summer School