Lego Space Blocks – How Do We Build a Space Satellite?

Building a spacecraft is an extraordinary undertaking. Scientists and engineers must design, build and test its many parts here on Earth, then send it into space with no easy way to make repairs if something goes wrong.

In this talk, Michael Wise of SRON will take us behind the scenes of spacecraft development. How do teams across different organisations and countries work together? How do they prepare something so complex for the journey? And what does it take for it to work once it reaches space?

An accessible look at the people, planning and ingenuity behind one of science’s most remarkable achievements.