E-USOC (Spanish User Support and Operations Centre) is a centre of
Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) specialized in
Research and Development (R&D) activities in the fields of space science and technology. On behalf of the
European Space Agency, the centre offers the necessary assistance for the preparation, execution and post-flight analysis of space experiments concerning the
Fluid Science Laboratory
The Fluid Science Laboratory is a European (ESA's) science payload designed for use in Columbus built by Alenia Spazio, OHB-System and Verhaert Design and Development. It is a multi-user facility for conducting fluid physics research in microgr ...
on board the
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA ( ...
, in the european module
Columbus. E-USOC is the point of contact for the
Spanish
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user teams developing experiments which require
microgravity environment.
Another aim of E-USOC is to provide with information and to promote activities in the field of space sciences and fluid mechanics, giving technical and operation support to researchers and investigation groups which want to carry out experiments in microgravity environments or related space-science.
The headquarters is located at Campus de Montegancedo, a research and technological park of the
Polytechnic University of Madrid. This building is located on the outskirts at the west of
Madrid
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, in the town of
Pozuelo de Alarcón
Pozuelo de Alarcón () is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Bordering the Moncloa-Aravaca district of Madrid proper to its west, Pozuelo de Alarcón is surrounded by large Mediterranean pine-tree forests: the Casa de Campo, the ...
.
Pedro Duque
Pedro Francisco Duque Duque, OF, OMSE (Madrid, 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer who served as Minister of Science of the Government of Spain from 2018 to 2021. He was also Member of the Congress of Deputies from ...
, Spanish
astronaut and
Minister of science, was the E-USOC operations director between 2003-2006.
See also
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European Space Agency
*
European Space Research and Technology Centre
The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) is the European Space Agency's main technology development and test centre for spacecraft and space technology. It is situated in Noordwijk, South Holland, in the western Netherlands, alt ...
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Polytechnic University of Madrid
References
External links
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ESA Human Spaceflight and Exploration
Science and technology in Spain
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