Aerospace Education Catalogue

MOOC Space Safety

• Organisation: Coursera - on-line courses
• Type of Course: E-learning (mooc, spoc, wikis ...)
• Language(s): English
• Place: on line (French Regions: Organisme en ligne)
• Prepared diploma/grade/title: Certificate of participation (Notification of training attendance/completion)

Course Details

Objectives: How can we prevent satellites from colliding? How can satellites be protected from meteorite impacts? How important are satellites in today’s age? How safe are astronauts on the ISS and why does their research help mankind in general? What happens with space debris distributed in orbit?

In the online course “Space Safety”, the astronaut Dr Thomas Reiter, experts from the European Space Agency (ESA) and other research institutions address the subject matter, presenting possible future scenarios for space applications.

The individual course units cover an array of topics, such as space weather, space debris, collision avoidance, cyber security and space medicine.

Partnerships with national organisations: Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Dedicated web site: https://www.coursera.org/learn/spacesafety

Disciplines

• Engineering Sciences
• Human and Social Sciences

Topics

• 2 - Dynamics and Kinetics (flight dynamics, space dynamics, constellations, formation flying, attitude and orbit control...)
• 20 - Health and Society: Health, Space Medicine, Biomedical, Biological Engineering, Risks, Defence, Security, Tourism, Policy
• 21 - Natural Resources and Environment Management/Protection, Infrastructures