Moscow Aviation Institute
Summer School

COSMOS - International Center for Advance Studies

COSMOS, the International Center for Advanced Studies was established in 1989 as an international aerospace summer program for student from around the world. Its main purpose is the study of advanced topics of spacecraft design and construction. Participants attend courses with high-level specialists and with aerospace industrial visits in the following disciplines:

• Spacecraft systems engineering and design
• Trajectory optimization
• Guidance and control
• Aerodynamics and rarified gas dynamics
• Heat and mass transfer
• Behavior of fluids in a zero-g environment
• Strength of high temperature structures
• Life support systems
• Testing of launch vehicles and their subsystems

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