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.

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.

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.

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.