Hungary will contribute EUR 32 million to European Space Agency (ESA) programmes in 2025, the foreign ministry’s commissioner for space research said on Sunday.
Speaking on the last day of a rocket and spacecraft construction camp in Baja, in the southwest of the country, Orsolya Ferencz said Hungary’s ESA payments had quintupled over the past six years. Space research in Hungary has advanced “at rocket speed” since the foreign ministry took over coordination of the sector six years ago, she added.
She said a network of CanSat laboratories, which support students’ preparations for participation in the ESA CanSat space industry contest, would continue to be expanded.
The camp in Baja brought together the best Hungarian students competing in the CanSat contest. Rockets built from cardboard and wood by seventeen students at the camp were launched to a height of 300-400 metres on Sunday.
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