EUROPEAN AEROSPACE TRAINING CENTER
TRAINING PROGRAMS
PUBLIC
INTRODUCTION TO SPACE
This first day course provides fun, interactive activities and hands-on overviews of space, culminating in an actual simulated Astronaut spaceflight experience.
PASSENGERS
BASIC SUBORBITAL SPACE TRAINING
This 2 days foundational course provides spaceflight participants with the core knowledge and skills needed to be safe, confident and capable in space.
ADVANCED SPACE TRAINING
This 2 days course provides enhanced knowledge and training including emergency preparedness and safety beyond basic space training.
SPACE PAYLOAD SPECIALIST TRAINING
This 1 day specialty course is aimed at researchers interested in understanding how to efficiently design, plan, and conduct
experiments in space.
SPACE SUITS AND SYSTEMS TRAINING
This 1 day specialty course is conducted with a space suit manufacturer to learn how to don/doff, use, and operate protective life support equipment.
PILOTS AND CREW
SPACE PILOT TRAINING PROGRAM
This customizable program provides space pilots with the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain safety of the vehicle and the passengers during flight.
Course components include: Launch and Reentry G-Force, Situational Awareness, Spatial Disorientation, Upset Prevention and Recovery Training, Hypobaric (High Altitude) and Rapid Decompression Training, Night Vision, and Land/ Water Egress and Survival Training.
QUALIFIED STAFF
F.A.T.A. Aerospace Department, as an independant corporation, performs objective technical analysis and operations for a variety of government, civil, and commercial customers. F.A.T.A. Aerospace employees are creative, motivated, and always professional to ensure the highest levels of individual and organizational performance.
Our Team of committed employees takes great pride in delivering technical leadership and innovative solutions on programs of national importance.
Our Key Values are:
- DEDICATION TO MISSION SUCCESS
- TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE
- COMMITMENT TO OUR PEOPLE
- OBJECTIVITY AND INTEGRITY
- INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
The nation’s space enterprise is facing tremendous change, driven by technology advancements, entepreneurial investments, new business models, rapidly changing threats, and a complex geopolitical landscape.
F.A.T.A. is a Center for Space Policy and Strategy, dedicated to shaping the future of Aerospace Training. Space exploration development, and security are increasingly important elements of national policy and strategy.
Aerospace activity is the future, with a multitude of commercial, industrial and military applications.
DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH CENTER
F.A.T.A. is ready to announce an authentic spaceflight training experience. Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes.
There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital, and lunar space tourism.
F.A.T.A. Aerospace Training And Research Center is the premier European air and space training, research, and educational facility for optimizing human performance in extreme environments.
F.A.T.A. meets the training requirements for commercial human spaceflight and recognized as the leader in development and delivery of commercial space training.
WIND TUNNEL:
- One of the largest and most modern open subsonic wind tunnels present in Italy
- Two test chambers: High and low Speed
- Air flow generated by a 250 kW fan
- Combustion engines allowed inside
- Model support system, even for particular configurations
- Model able to set pitch and yaw angle through remotely controlled actuators and position sensors
| High Speed chamber | Low speed chamber | |
| Section (width and height) | 2,0 x 1,0 m | 2,5 x 1,0 m |
| Length | 4 m | 5 m |
| Maximum speed | 75 m/s | 30 m/s |
| Pitch excursion | -15° to +30° | ± 5° |
| Yaw excursion | ±30° | ± 3° |
F.A.T.A. CENTER PROVIDES:
- Turn-key screening, training, research, test & flight services
- Access to world-class simulation equipment, environments & staff
- High-fidelity flight recreation of scenarios, trajectories & simulations
- Safe, controlled setting supports medical & flight data collection
Targeting the highest levels of safety to fly and perform operational tasks, training packages comprise three mai phases:
- AEROSPACE TOURIST EXPERIENCE (ATE)
- AEROSPACE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING (APT)
- AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM (ATTP)
SPACE FLIGHT TRAINING ADVENTURE
F.A.T.A. Center offers flexible access to out cutting-edge simulation equipment and expert staff.
Cockpits, flight profile development (nominal and off-nominal), medical and flight data capture are supported.
RESEARCH AREAS:
- Human Factors & Human Systems Interaction
- Learning & Training Methodologies
- Stress, Cognition & Human Performance
- Sensory Physiology & Motion perception
MEDICAL DATA AVAILABLE:
- ECG
- Heart rate / Pulse
- Galvanic Skin Response
- Blood pressure
- Respiration
- Pneumograph
- Infrared (IR) CCTV
- Multi-Channel Audio
FACILITIES
| AIRCRAFT SIMULATOR PLATFORM L-39C Aircraft simulator platform is used to test/train for a full range of physiological flight effects. Cockpits and flight profiles can be configured to replicate specific aircraft. |  |
| CENTRIFUGE High performance human centrifuge replicates characteristics of airspace craft. Features interchangeable cockpit modules and programmable flight profiles. |  |
| GYROLAB Multi-axis centrifuge-based device used to teach upset prevention & recovery and spatial disorientation for pilots to fill what its like to recover an out of control aircraft. |  |
| LAND/WATER SYSTEM Configurable water trainer used to practice emergency water landing, ditching and abort techniques for a variety of land and water-based scenarios. |  |
| HYPOXIA ALTITUDE CHAMBER Used to recognise hypoxia (lack of Oxygen), from increasing altitude and to simulate rapid decompression from sudden loss of cabin pressure. |  |
| HYPERBARIC CHAMBERS Used in the treatment of wounds, burns, skin grafts and is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 13 different conditions |  |
