The NASA International Space Apps Challenge was held in Vaasa for the seventh time during the autumn weekend of October 5–6, 2024. The global hackathon brought together talents from different fields.
Kvarken Space Center and University of Vaasa Executive Education have joined forces and started a video series. In the first part, Heidi Kuusniemi, the director of the Kvarken Space Center, discusses the center’s operations and Vaasa’s contribution to the space research and new space business.
Five teams were rewarded in KvarkenSat Innovation Challenge 2022 – Team Gaenseliesel won the hackathon The KvarkenSat Innovation Challenge on sustainable forestry was held in March 2022. The idea of this hackathon was to combat the climate change in sustainable forestry with help of space-based data. This hackathon was open for students, startups, and researchers.…
KvarkenSat Innovation Challenge has started! KvarkenSat Innovation Challenge on Sustainable Forestry is finally here! We have been planning this for months together with our partners and sponsors and the hackathon organizer Ultrahack. We are so happy to see so many eager teams working towards sustainable solutions for forestry with help of space-based data. We are…
Welcome to boost your business with space-based data! Welcome to an online Learning Café on Monday, May 25th at 12.30 (Finnish time). The new digital space economy is an internationally growing field of research and development. The possibilities offered by large quantities of data collected from satellites bring interesting new opportunities both for the private…
KvarkenSat Ground Station was designed and presented as a part of Master’s Thesis Kannan Selvan, a member of KvarkenSpaceEco team, presented today his master’s thesis at University of Vaasa. His master’s thesis included designing and building a ground station to receive data from KvarkenSat and other open satellites. Heidi Kuusniemi, the supervising professor was very…