Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Research, Technology and Education of Space

Bacsárdi, László

Kovács, Kálmán

Hungarian Astronautical Society (MANT, Magyar Asztronautikai Társaság)

2025-08-04T07:11:32Z

2024-04-25

Welcome to the 8th edition of our H SPACE conference series! We are happy to welcome you at the 8th International Conference on Research, Technology and Education of Space. Special welcome to those participants who are joining the H SPACE conference for the first time. The event is organized by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in cooperation with the Hungarian Astronautical Society (MANT), which is the oldest space association in Hungary. The organization of the conference series started in 2015, at a time of growing opportunities arising from ESA recently granting membership to Hungary and the need for a joint presentation of space activities pursued at BME. The selection of the date for the first occasion of our conference series was a tribute to the successful mission of the first Hungarian satellite, Masat 1, launched on February 13, 2012. A lot has happened in space since our last conference in 2022. We would like to highlight a few Hungarian achievements. Our companies and research institutions are actively participating in different European and international space programs. The recently published Hungarian Space Kaleidoscope 2023/2024 contains more than 60 companies, research institutions and university departments working in the Hungarian space sector. Our national astronaut program - the Hungarian to Orbit (HUNOR) - selected four astronaut candidates and one of them will conduct experiments on the International Space Station with Axiom Space. Researchers from the HUN-REN Astronomy and Earth Science Research Center (HUN REN CSFK) are participating in the PRIDE (Planetary Radio Interferometry and Doppler Experiment) experiment of the JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) program, one of the most important interplanetary missions of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft was launched in April 2023 towards the largest giant planet in our solar system, Jupiter. The newest satellite of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) has been launched in June 2023. The MRC 100 is named in honor of the university’s radio club (Műegyetemi Rádió Club) 100th anniversary in 2024. MRC 100 is a 5*5*15 cm size PocketQube satellite. One of its tasks is to measure electrosmog, but it also carries instruments for experiments of teams from University of Debrecen, Széchenyi István University (Győr) and the University of Szeged. In September 2022, BME started the first class of its space engineering MSc program, and the first students will graduate this June. In line with the objectives of Hungary's Space Strategy adopted by the Hungarian government in 2021, 17 Hungarian universities have entered into a consortium agreement to launch 4 separated but coordinated space related postgraduate training program under the national UniSpace education program. These includes Space Technology Specialist, Innovative Nutrition and Health Sciences Specialist, Space Science Specialist and Space Policy Advisor Training Program. The 3 semester program started in September 2022 and the first class graduated this February. In this Aprill, Iván Almár, honorary president of the Hungarian Astronautical Society became the first Hungarian who has been recognized with the IAF Hall of Fame award by the International Astronautical Federation. The topic of this year’s H-SPACE conference is “Cooperation in the space sector”. The agenda of the conference addresses scientific, technological, and educational issues of space research and space activities. The conference is open for both local and international professionals and provides an opportunity to showcase Hungarian scientific, technological, educational and outreach activities related to space. The Organizing Committee has internationally recognized members: Dr. Balázs Bartóki Gönczy, Dr. Tibor Bálint, Ferenc Horvai, Prof. János Lichtenberger, Dr. Lóránt Földváry, Prof. László Pap, Dr. Andrea Pődör, Prof. Gábor Stépán, Dr. Szabolcs Rózsa. We are grateful for their contributions to the success of the conference. On the first day, we will host in person presentations which will be live streamed for online participants. The second day we will host online presentations (oral and posters). The conference will have four main sections: a Plenary with invited presentations. Session Science and Technology I II and Session Education and Outreach. This book contains the abstracts of the presentations. In the coming months, selected full papers will be published in the official conference proceedings which will be available on our website, http://space.bme.hu . On this website, the proceedings and selected papers of the previous issues can be found as well. We hope you will enjoy your time in Budapest and the H-SPACE conference could help to learn about new scientific and technological results and strengthen your network. We hope to welcome you again at the next edition of H SPACE, at the H SPACE 2026, which will be organized in the spring of 2026.

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ISBN 978 963 7367 34 2

http://hdl.handle.net/10890/62898