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ESA/ESTEC (Netherlands)

The Cost Engineering profession in the space domai

We are planning a 1-day in-person training session at ESTEC on both 29 and 30 September.

Both days will cover the same material, so only plan to be on site for one of the days. 

To do business with companies, ESA has developed a procedure and an associated ESA Costing Software tool called ECOS for aggregating and calculating the price elements of the financial proposals through the entire contractual chain.

Software Product Assurance Training for SMEs (June 2026)

This workshop will take place from June 1st to 3rd 2026 at ESA/ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands). It will be held on-site only; remote participation will not be possible.

RAMS is a discipline under the aegis of Product Assurance but with strong links to System Engineering. Its dedicated methods and techniques aim at improving the Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety of systems at all levels of a project.

This training course will take place on 28 - 30 October at ESA/ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands). It is an on-site course, remote participation will not be possible.

Product Assurance (PA) is the discipline devoted to the study, planning and implementation of activities intended to assure that the design, controls, methods and techniques in a project result in a satisfactory degree of quality in a product.

The Software Product Assurance Section of the European Space Agency (ESA) is organising the 4th edition of the bi-annual Software Product Assurance Conference. In 2025, it will take place at ESA/ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands) on 22-25 September.

The EEE Components Procurement course will take place at ESA/ESTEC on 20 May 2025.

Participants who joined the online SME Forum preparatory meetings are invited to register now to attend the SME Forum 2025.

This training course on Software Product Assurance will take place at ESA/ESTEC (Noordwijk, NL) on 11 March 2025 (09:00 - 18:00 CET)

This training course will take place on 5-7 November 2024 at ESA/ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands). It is an on-site course, remote participation will not be possible.

Product Assurance (PA) is the discipline devoted to the study, planning and implementation of activities intended to assure that the design, controls, methods and techniques in a project result in a satisfactory degree of quality in a product.