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.

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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.

Request your Classroom Licence

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)

Request your Flight Licence
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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

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Training

Shared training sessions

We organise regular shared training with Q&A sessions, available to all members of the academic programme

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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

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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

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Find our more about Sponsorship and if it works for you.

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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.

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Product

Flight Software Development Kit

Unique development environment for mission-specific flight software

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Product

Mission Control Software

Easy-to-use monitoring and control of onboard changes during development and flight

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For evaluation and educational purposes we offer a Classroom Academic license, which 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 License users.

Getting your mission sponsored couldn’t be easier! All you need to do is complete and submit the application form on our website. Make sure to include as much detail as you can about your project and your mission. Alternatively, the form can be available offline – please contact us on brightstart@brightascension.com to receive a copy of the application form.

The Bright Start Academic Programme is open to faculty, staff, or students at a degree-granting academic institution. Academic licenses are subject to the Bright Ascension T&Cs and are restricted to academic use only. Usage for commercial purposes is not supported by Academic liceses.

It’s simple! Are you planning to fly your spacecraft? Then you need a Flight License, which is a heavily discounted bundle of our FSDK and MCS products. Or do you need the software for educational purposes and classroom use only? In that case, the Classroom license should suffice. What’s more, our Classroom license completely free of charge!