Space Informatics

Liebe Studierende,

Due to a double-booking, our exam on next Tuesday, 03.11., will take place in E2 5, HS I in the math building. Your seat is now visible on your personal status page.
If you believe that you incorrectly have not been assigned a seat, contact the @Assistants as soon as possible.

The exam will start at 14:15. Please be there at 14:05. Make sure that you have read the information in the forum.

Viele Grüße
Euer Space Team

Liebe Studierende,

On Tuesday, 03.11.2020, we will write the final exam as announced. Whether or not you are admitted to the exam is now published on your personal status page.

This semester, there will be some differences due to the ongoing pandemic situation. We have published important information on the procedure of the exam in the forum. Please read this information carefully. It contains information which, if ignored, may result in you not being allowed to take the exam.

During some phases of the exam, wearing a face mask is mandatory. You must bring your own protective mask. If you cannot wear a mask for medical reasons, you will need a medical certificate and must wear a face shield instead. Details can also be found in the forum.

Viele Grüße
Euer Space Team

Liebe Infonauten,

Please consider participating in the International Space Hackathon ActInSpace scheduled for Nov 13/14, 2020.

More details are here https://actinspace.org/.

We are happily supporting your activity, and have set up a Forum section for this here.

Beste Grüße,
   Euer Space Team

Liebe Studierende,

This Friday at 2pm (sharp), we are going to jointly enjoy a guest lecture by Eduardo Cruz from GomSpace, Luxembourg. He will talk about the “Challenges of Scaling up Leo Satellite Operations to Constellations”. Eduardo Cruz is the Country Business Manager of the Luxembourg Team and leads the Ground Segment.

The presentation will be held online using Zoom at the link below.

https://cs-uni-saarland-de.zoom.us/j/99286473894?pwd=MkFCLzFFa1ZvYnFJYnhVdExBbXdKdz09

Meeting ID: 992 8647 3894
Passcode: 650045

Do feel free to spread this information to your peers.

(For the students of the Space Informatics course: Yes, this guest lecture is relevant for the exam.)

Viele Grüße
Euer Space Team

Liebe Studierende,

some of the lecture videos recorded in previous iterations of this module suffer from serious audiovisual glitches.
We have decided to move to a more conventional style of lecturing.

There will be live online lectures on

•  Tuesday, September 22nd at 2 PM (sharp)
•  Wednesday, September 23rd at 2 PM (sharp)
•  Friday, September 25th at 2 PM (sharp)

These lectures will be about 90 to 100 minutes long, possibly including a break.
The lectures will be hosted on zoom. The access details will be announced on the dedicated thread in the forum.

Other parts of the lecture material will be released in the form of prerecorded videos, as before.

The lecture on Tuesday will replace the Space Q&A planned at the same time, and will give particular opportunities to rediscus material from before.

Viele Grüße,
 Holger Hermanns

Liebe Studierende,

We are happy to announce that Project 2 has been released! It is available on the Materials page in dCMS.
The submission deadline is September 21, 09:59.
All the information you need to be aware of are part of the project description, please make sure to read them carefully.

Viele Grüße,
Euer Space Team

Liebe Studierende,

We are hearing that some students have issues validating their AGI account and therefore are delayed with working on the certification exercises of the first project. Unfortunately, the account validation is out of our zone of influence.

If you are affected by this problem, you can write me a message in the forum. In this mail, please also include the date/time at which you created your AGI account.

If you send me a message before tomorrow, September 14, at 11:59, we will grant you an extended deadline to submit the STK Level 1 Certification. The new deadline will be the same as for project 2, namely Monday, September 21, at 09:59.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience – which came unexpected.

Viele Grüße
Euer Space Team

Liebe Studierende,

We have released the first Assignment Sheet. It is available on the Materials page in the dCMS.

The assignment sheets and projects are solved in groups of two students. Please find another student to work with. If necessary, you can use the partner market on our discussion board to find a partner.

After you found a team partner, one member has to create a new team on her Personal Status page while the other team partner has to join this team (also via the Personal Status page).
Please perform this step until Sunday, September 13, 23:59.

Viele Grüße
Euer Space Team

Liebe Studierende,

Today (September 7, 2020) the first Space Informatics kick-off lecture will take place. We start at 14:15 and will present the organisational details of this year’s course edition.

The lecture will take place here on Zoom. The passcode is the postal code of Saarland Informatics Campus.

Furthermore, we have installed a Forum. Please note that we will not send a news for every live event we offer. Instead, we will post the details here in our forum. It is important that you activate your account.

We are looking forward to meeting you.

Viele Grüße
Euer Space Team

Liebe Studierende,

Welcome to Space Informatics!

This news contains important information such as the planned course structure.

Schedule & Course Format

Our course is planned as a four week (full-time) block course from September 7 to October 2.

• The lectures will mostly consist of recorded videos published in our dCMS. Whenever there are live lectures, they will be announced beforehand. Live lectures will be held in Zoom (and might or might not be recorded).
• In addition, there will be live events called “Space Q&A”. There, the lecturers will briefly recap the covered materials and then offer you the possibility to ask questions and initiate discussions. We will likely use Zoom for this, too.
• To further support you in studying the course contents, there will be tutorials scheduled. This is the place where various tyes of exercises are discussed.
• Weekdays without tutorials will instead feature office hours. There, you can reach out to our tutors and get help with exercises and the projects. Both, the tutorials and office hours, will take place on Discord.
• The course comprises three practical projects. You will be allowed to work on these in groups of two students.

More details will be provided in the first introductory lecture on Monday, September 7, at 14:15. This live-event will take place on Zoom and will be announced in a separate news. Please have a look at the dCMS Calendar for an overview of the precise schedule.

Physical Presence on Campus?

It will be possible to attend the course (i.e. lectures and tutorials), and to be admitted to the final exam from remote. Note, however, that a written exam is scheduled to take place on campus. We are planning to have it in the first week of the upcoming lecture period, i.e. around November 3. The details are not fixed yet and will be discussed in the first introductory lecture.

Feel free to contact us if you have any more questions.

Viele Grüße
Euer Space Team