Children's University: How satellites become space debris
04/14/2026The Würzburg Children's University on Saturday, 25 April will take you into space: Professors Marco Schmidt and Mohamed Khalil Ben-Larbi will talk about satellites and space debris.
We use them every day and usually don't even realise it. Whether navigating with Google Maps or communicating with the internet: Satellites play an important role in our everyday lives.
But what exactly are satellites? What do they look like, how heavy are they? Why do they stay where they are? What happens to a satellite when it is no longer needed or breaks down? And what exactly is space debris?
Professors give the lecture twice
The answers can be found at the next Würzburg Children's University on Saturday, 25 April 2026, in the university's Audimax on Sanderring. Space professors Marco Schmidt and Mohamed Khalil Ben Larbi will give their lecture "Satellites in orbit and how they become space debris" (in German language) once at 10:00 and then again at 10:45.
The lecture lasts about half an hour. It is aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 13. For accompanying adults and siblings, it will be transmitted by video to lecture theatre 166.
Book tickets now
Admission to the children's university is free. If you want to be sure of attending, you should reserve tickets on the Children's University website .
Contact: kinderuni@uni-wuerzburg.de
Outlook
The next children's university will take place on Saturday, 27 June 2026: "Green, slippery, ingenious? Algae and the world of tomorrow". Professor Laura Otto and Nicholas Cudd from the Chair of European Ethnology/Empirical Cultural Studies at JMU will be talking about this topic.
On this June date, all children who have collected three or four stamps in their lecture book during the 2025/26 children's university series will receive a diploma.
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