Summer School Program

Saturday
May 14

Arrival

Sunday
May 15

8.00 – 9.00 Registration & Welcome Coffee

9:00 Welcome address and introduction to the course

9.45 – 11.30 Opening Lecture: The Role of Space in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 

11.30   Meeting with members of the award-winning AGH Space Systems Team

12.00  Visit to AGH UST Geological Museum

12.30  Traditional Polish dinner

14.00 – 17.00  Guided walking tour of Krakow’s Old Town

Evening: Own time/Teamwork

Monday
May 16 

9.00 – 10.30  – Introduction to cosmochemistry and planetary geology 

11.00 - 12.30 – Skills for the Modern Space Sector

12.30 Time for  lunch

14:00 -15.30  Geology of selected asteroids and the Moon, and their resources 

15.30 – 17.00  Geology of Mars and its resources 

Evening: Own time/Teamwork 

Tuesday
May 17

8.30 – 10.00   Environmental constraints and exemplary space   missions. Modelling of a manipulator arm operating on a spacecraft

11.00 – 12.30  – Space Robotics a new ERA of challenges ... a new ERA of opportunities

12.30 Time for  lunch

14:00 Field trip to Racławka Valley and a dolomite mine in Dubie

Evening: Own time/Teamwork

Wednesday
May 18

9:00 – 10.30 Moon exploration: surface prospecting and regolith excavation 

10.30 -12.00 Space robot testing and validation in terrestrial environment 

12.30 Time for lunch 

14.00 – 18.00 Visit to the underground  Wieliczka Salt Mine 

Evening: Own time/Teamwork 

Thursday
May 19

09.00 -12.00  An interactive session; introduction to the digital part of the school

12.00 Time for lunch 

Afternoon: Invitation to an accompanying event

  Student Space Mining Conference 

Evening: Own time/Teamwork

Friday 
May 20

19.00 Evening event with degustation at the Brewery