Academic Programme
Bright Start
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Licence Plans: specially designed and heavily discounted product bundle licences for the academic community
Training and Support: to make sure you have sufficient training and support to use our software, we provide access to member-exclusive support forum and organise shared training sessions
Sponsorship: an opportunity to get your academic mission sponsored with free FSDK and MCS licence bundle. We sponsor up to 3 academic missions each year.
1. Licence Plans
Choose your licence plan
To be eligible for academic licensing, your primary intent must be to use the software as part of your research or teaching at an accredited degree-granting college or university. These licences cannot be used for commercial gain or any direct revenue generating capacity.
Types of license plans
Academic licence
Classroom Licence: FREE
Need an educational licence for evaluation or learning purposes? Look no further! Our software package is entirely free of charge for classroom use. What’s more, it comes with all the same support and training offered to paying Academic Flight Licence users.
Academic licence
Flight Licence: £275*/month
Ready to start your journey into space? Our Academic Flight Licence is a heavily discounted bundle of both our flight and ground software products, available as a 3 year plan. Coupled with shared training and community support, it gives you everything you need to blast your mission into space! (*based on a 3 year licence)
2. Support
Build connections
Simply having access to our software may not be enough and you may require training and access to further support. Whilst we are unable to offer individual helpdesk support to academic licence users, we won’t leave you on your own and will provide multiple help options through our academic programme.
Support and Training
Support
Support Forum
Member exclusive support community: connect with teams across the world for mutual help and support through our member forum
Training
Shared training sessions
We organise regular shared training with Q&A sessions, available to all members of the academic programme
Support
Student collaboration
We aim to inspire student collaboration and involvement across multiple teams across the world through shared activities, such as training and support forum
3. Sponsorship
Your journey is on us
At the start of each academic year we select 3 most interesting student missions to sponsor with our Academic Flight Licence free of charge. This includes both FSDK and MCS products.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship
Read More about Sponsorship
Find our more about Sponsorship and if it works for you.
Application
Apply on our website
Submit the form on our website. Make sure to include as much detail as you can about your project and your mission.
Product
Flight Software Development Kit
Unique development environment for mission-specific flight software
Product
Mission Control Software
Easy-to-use monitoring and control of onboard changes during development and flight