Orbit pass and link
When can a ground station see the satellite — and does seeing it mean you got the data?
55–70 minutes · Grade 8 · runs in this browser
Open this missionMissionLab
Your spacecraft. Your mission.
Test an idea, run the mission, decide what the team should do.
Your mission
Pilot lessonSunlight to energy
Does the way a spacecraft faces change how much electricity its solar panels make?
Start mission55–70 minutes · Grade 8 · nothing to set up, and your work stays in this browser
Next missions
The order the programme teaches them in. You can run any of them on their own.
Power through the shadow
When the Sun disappears, which spacecraft copes better - and how would you know?
55–70 minutes · Grade 8 · runs in this browser
Open this missionTruth and measurement
If the instruments get worse, does the spacecraft get worse - or does it just stop knowing where it is?
55–70 minutes · Grade 8 · runs in this browser
Open this missionWhat running a mission is like
Every mission moves the same way, whichever spacecraft problem it gives you.
01 · Mission brief
What the spacecraft problem is, and what a good answer looks like.
02 · What do you think?
Answer the check, read the idea behind it, and write your prediction.
03 · Prepare
Confirm you are ready to run, once the prediction is written.
04 · Run the mission
Run the spacecraft model — the baseline, then the comparison.
05 · See results and decide
Read what the run produced, choose your evidence, decide what the team should do, and say what it does not prove.
06 · Complete and reflect
Look back at what changed your mind, and finish your record.
07 · Your record
What your finished record is, and what it is not.
Missions for a different grade
The same spacecraft. What changes is how much of it you are shown, and what you are asked to justify.
Where these missions sit
Twelve engineering areas make up the full programme. Thirteen runnable pilot missions cover fourteen experiments; MLX-12 remains mapped but unavailable.