A non-competitive mission for young people no older than 14.
Write a simple Python program using free online tools.
Your code is guaranteed to run in space for 30 seconds.
Take partWhat isAstro Pi?
The European Astro Pi Challenge offers young people the amazing opportunity to conduct scientific investigations in space by writing computer programs that run on Raspberry Pi computers aboard the International Space Station. Astro Pi is an ESA Education project run in collaboration with the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
In order to take part in the Challenge:
1. Your team needs to be from either a primary or secondary school, Scout group or coding/after school club located in an ESA Member State, Slovenia, Canada or Malta. Certified home schools will also be accepted.
2. 50% of your team must be nationals of one of the participating countries mentioned above.
You can find a list of ESA Member States here.
Choose Your Mission
A scientific mission for young people no older than 19.
Design an experiment, receive free computer hardware to work with, and write the Python code to carry it out.
Your code could be uploaded to the International Space Station and run for three hours (two orbits).
Get your results back from space and analyse them like a real space scientist!
Take part