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Hundreds of students have been given the chance to take part in some space-age work experience.

The European Space Agency (ESA) brought together almost five hundred students from all over Europe to work on the second Young Engineers' Satellite experiment (YES2).

The experiment, to be completed in a remote area of Russia, is designed to test whether a parcel can be "posted" back to Earth from space.

For the first time in history a 30 kilometre-long tether will be released into space. Employing complex gravitational calculations, a parcel attached to the end of the tether will then be shot back to Earth.

Roger Walker, of the ESA's education department, said: "YES2 represents a whole collection of university dissertations and theses.

"Students have gained valuable hands-on experience that will certainly be put to good use immediately if they should continue in the space industry or come to work for the ESA."

Even if the students involved don't want to pursue a career in space, the experience should definitely provide an interesting CV talking-point in future job interviews.