Summer school – Build Your Own Satellite in 5 Days

This summer, the Academie Spatiale d’Île-de-France and UPEC are offering you a unique opportunity: to design, build, and launch your own nanosatellite.

A total immersion in space technology! A completely free summer school, including lunch and coffee breaks. Designed and organized at the Académie Spatiale by UPEC, Sorbonne University, Université Paris Cité, ONERA, and Université Versailles-Saint Quentin.

APPLICATIONS – Now open until April 30
Fill out the questionnaire to embark on this adventure → Application form

Deadline: Thursday, April 30, 2026

Over the course of five intensive days, dive into the heart of a concrete and immersive space project:

• Discover space technologies through masterclasses led by experts who have designed and launched real satellites and space instruments.
• Work in thematic teams on the various subsystems of a nanosatellite (electronics, telecommunications, power, control, etc.).
• Assemble and operate your own satellite, just like in a real space project

Which team will you be on?

Payload and metrology team: responsible for the satellite’s primary mission, including scientific sensors, cameras, etc.

Launch and Flight Environment Team: launch conditions and space environment (vibrations, vacuum, temperatures, radiation)

System Engineering and Integration Team: overall satellite architecture

Energy and power team: solar panels, batteries, and power distribution

On-board computing team: the satellite’s “brain” that controls satellite operations

Attitude, instrumentation, and optics team: determining and controlling the satellite’s orientation in space

Mechanical, mechanisms, and integration team: securing and protecting the satellite’s fixed and moving components

Telecommunications team: responsible for communication between the satellite and the ground station on Earth (antennas, data transmission and reception)