Astro Pi – Mission Space Lab

Astro Pi Mission Space Lab invites young people to take up an exciting challenge: write a Python program to calculate the speed of the International Space Station (ISS) by taking their own photos from space!

Mission Space Lab (up to age 19)

Create a complete scientific experiment, analyze real space data (air quality, humidity, movements, light, etc.) and discover the effects of space conditions. A real team research project!

This educational project offers hands-on immersion in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), encouraging creativity, problem-solving and team collaboration. Submitted programs will be carried out in space, and each team will receive data collected as well as an official certificate, marking their contribution to space research.

The data collected will then be sent back to your class for analysis like real scientists.

Why take part?

Astro Pi Mission Space Lab gives students the chance to program a scientific mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Their challenge? Write a program in Python to collect data using sensors on an Astro Pi computer, and calculate the speed of the ISS as it orbits the Earth.

Astro Pi is a unique opportunity to learn programming in the classroom… while touching the stars!

Register your class and take part in the space adventure! Registration opens in October 2025.