Tonight, 30 September 2016, hundreds of initiatives all over Europe will mark another edition of the European Researcher's Night. One of these initiatives is taking place at ESA/ESRIN in Frascati, Italy, one of Solenix's customers.
Last weekend, Solenix participated in the ESA basketball tournament, which every year gathers amateur players in teams representing different ESA sites as well as some of ESA's industrial partners. In 2016, a record 6 teams got together in the outskirts of Madrid, in Tres Cantos, to compete for the title. Solenix was represented once more as part of the ESRIN team, where it has been present since 2013.
At the beginning of September, we were in London participating in the 10th edition of the QB50 Workshop and the 8th European CubeSat Symposium. Solenix supports the QB50 project with both consultancy and further development on their baseline mission control system.
This week we are attending the EO Open Science 2016 conference at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy. At our booth, Solenix is showing the latest updates on the virtual globe API, WebWorldWind.
During the August workshop we discussed automated user interface testing. We at Solenix use UI tests to simulate user interactions with our web applications offering us the possibility to discover weak points. Automated tests make our engineers’ lives easier as the tests ensure the integrity of the code during our nightly checks. After having researched several tools available in the market, our choice is SeleniumHQ, which allows us to test our products with all major web browsers and with different programming languages.
From 30 May to 03 June the 4S Symposium 2016 is taking place in beautiful Valletta in Malta. Surrounded by impressive architecture and Mediterranean landscapes, the symposium jointly organised by CNES and ESA, focusses on Small Satellites Systems and Services. Besides this year's special topic on "Small Satellites Go Viral", the conference covers technical sessions in satellite technology, applications, mission concept and systems.
Last week the 14th International Conference on Space Operations took place in Daejeon, Korea. The 2016 edition of SpaceOps was hosted by KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) and organised by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). With the theme “Expanding the Space Community”, the one-week conference hosted different sessions around space operations topics, such as Operations Concepts and Flight Execution, Planning and Scheduling or Small Satellite and Commercial Space Operations amongst other.
Next week, Solenix is going to attend the 4S Symposium, which brings together an ever-increasing number of actors in the small satellite community.
On Wednesday 18 May 2016, a brave group of Solenix colleagues participated in the 5th edition of the Merck Firmenlauf (Company Run) for the very first time in the company’s history.
The company run consisted of a 5 km route around the Merck-Station am Böllenfalltor, home to the local SV Darmstadt 98 football team, with almost 3.600 runners from 200 different companies and institutions in Darmstadt.
This week was the inauguration of the “Solenix Talks”, a new cycle of presentations, workshops and discussions about Solenix activities.
The “Solenix Talks” are a platform for all Solenix colleagues to present interesting topics and to share their knowledge with the team. The first talk was organised by the Products Division and presented an overview and a hands-on demo of our products: