Center for Space and Aviation Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Leading institutions from the Greater Zurich Area and the Rhine Valley merged their space expertise to establish the Center for Space and Aviation Switzerland and Liechtenstein (CSA). The federal foundation, under the strategic direction of the Zurich cantonal government’s decision on Space as a cantonal flagship (RRB-2024-372), aims to advance the New Space Economy through a unified approach. The Center represents a broad coalition in complementary research, teaching, innovation, and utilization areas of already established institutions in German-speaking Switzerland and Liechtenstein. This has overcome the fragmentation of the space sector and united the space areas under one roof in a common structure for national and international academic and industrial cooperation.

The CSA integrates the following institutions as partners: Innovation Cluster Space and Aviation, University of Zurich (UZH Space Hub) Center for Aviation and Space Competence, University of St. Gallen (CFAC-HSG), National Center for Biomedical Research in Space, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (NCBRS-HSLU), Swiss SkyLab Foundation as a Civil Research Flight Facility at Dübendorf Airfield, Aeromedical Institute of the Swiss Air Force (FAI), The Space Affairs Department of the National Administration of the Principality of Liechtenstein, Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein (UFL), Air Force Center, Air Base Dübendorf, Canton of Zurich, Department for Economic Affairs. The Center for Space and Aviation Switzerland and Liechtenstein (CSA) aims to harness the full potential of the New Space Economy for the region, together with its national and international partners.

Our strategic goals are:

Establishment of a Civil Research Flight Facility at the Dübendorf airfield as a central hub for research and development in aviation and space and as the nucleus for a commercial trade and logistics hub.

Establishment of multidisciplinary training and continuing education in the field of “Space”

Innovative research in aviation and space for society and the economy

Partnerships with the global space industry and the New Space Stations