{"id":2659,"date":"2026-04-10T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/fly-your-satellite-industry-mentorship-initiative-concludes-pilot-phase-supporting-the-next-generation-of-satellite-engineers\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:04:00","slug":"fly-your-satellite-industry-mentorship-initiative-concludes-pilot-phase-supporting-the-next-generation-of-satellite-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/fly-your-satellite-industry-mentorship-initiative-concludes-pilot-phase-supporting-the-next-generation-of-satellite-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly Your Satellite! Industry Mentorship Initiative concludes Pilot Phase: supporting the next generation of satellite engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2022\/12\/expert_showing_thermal_hardware_during_the_fys_design_booster_training_week\/24626043-1-eng-GB\/Expert_showing_thermal_hardware_during_the_FYS_Design_Booster_Training_Week_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In June 2025, the ESA Education Office launched an industry mentorship initiative as part of the Fly Your Satellite! Educational Satellites programme, connecting university teams with professionals from the European space industry. Designed with the goal of broadening the student teams theoretical and practical knowledge and fostering their professional maturity, the initiative has now reached a first milestone, with the completion of its six-month pilot phase.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2025, the ESA Education Office launched an industry mentorship initiative as part of the Fly Your Satellite! Educational Satellites programme, connecting university teams with professionals from the European space industry. Designed with the goal of broadening the student teams theoretical and practical knowledge and fostering their professional maturity, the initiative has now reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}