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A new educational collaboration agreement for space science and astronomy will bring the use of five telescopes to secondary school and university students in Europe.

Students will be able to use one of ESA’s radio telescopes in Spain, together with a further four telescopes belonging to ESA, Spain’s National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) and the publicly-owned company Ingeniería y Servicios Aeroespaciales (INSA).

The initiative is part of the CESAR project (Cooperation through Education in Science and Astronomy Research), which was officially presented in late June at the ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid.

Once available, all of the telescopes will be robotic, meaning students can control them from their classrooms.

Together with their teachers, students will be able to make astronomical observations at night and solar observations, and download the corresponding data. The project also has a technological and scientific aspect, as CESAR will include collaboration projects in which groups of students develop new or improved control programmes for the instruments to make astronomical observations.

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