The ITA Space Center and Its Role in Space Education in Brazil

Presenter Information

Luis Eduardo Vergueiro Loures da Costa, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of TechnologyFollow
Pedro Kukulka de Albuquerque, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Christopher Shneider Cerqueira, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Jonas Bianchini Fulindi, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Willer Gomes dos Santos, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Lidia Hissae Shibuya Sato, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Ana Carolina di Iorio Jeronymo, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Renan Guilherme Soares Menezes, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Breno Aparecido Crucioli, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Linelcio dos Santos Paula, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Renan Pimentel, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Pedro Lyra Cabral, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Herbi Junior Pereira Moreira, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Jessica Garcia de Azevedo, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Edward Hsiao, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Rodolfo Guilherme Wottrich, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Mateus de Oliveira Pereira, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Marcel Akira Ogawa, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Emerson Henrique Silva de Oliveira, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology
Denis Guilguim Vieira, ITA –Aeronautics Institute of Technology

Session

Pre-Conference Workshop Session V: Educational Programs

Location

Utah State University, Logan, UT

Abstract

This paper presents the ITA Space Center and its mission in the formation of human resources and in the research and development of space products. In 2012 the first aerospace engineers were graduated at ITA, and since then many efforts have been done to improve the engineering education. The first effort was the development of AESP-14 CubeSat project, then the development and launch of ITASAT, a 6U CubeSat. These two projects showed that small satellites projects provide a good learning approach once students were deeply involved in the development process. These two projects opened the opportunity for the creation of the ITA Space Center (CEI -acronym for Centro Espacial ITA in Portuguese). Inside its facilities the ITA Space Center provides capabilities for the development of small space projects such as electronics, software engineering, mechanical design, and simulation with the aid of systems engineering and project management. By means of the graduate and undergraduate programs the ITA Space Center is providing education and integration with the industries and other partner organizations. In developing and delivering space products, and fostering higher education in space, the ITA Space Center is accomplishing of its proposed mission.