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This position is based at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) - Noordwijk, Netherlands.
You will be a member of the GNC, AOCS and Pointing Division. With more than 40 staff and contractors, the Division is happy to welcome interns to contribute to its duties:
PROJECT SUPPORT in the field of GNC (Guidance, Navigation and Control), AOCS (Attitude and Orbit Control Systems) and Pointing engineering:
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT:
LABORATORY WORK:
You will work on AOCS and GNC techniques, for interplanetary missions, re-entry missions, and smallsat. The internship will combine work on algorithms (including research) and hands-on activities (simulations and possibly use Laboratory facility for testing with Hardware-in-the-loop). One of our facilities provides a way of testing a satellite’s orientation control with space-like dynamics (via a spherical air bearing) and physical stimulus of sensors.
ESA is currently investigating different future missions involving landing on dwarf planets or moons of giant planets as well as high precision landers on Mars. For all these missions, preliminary but at the same time accurate navigation analyses are required to trade-off different design options in terms of landing accuracy, reliability, complexity, and cost.
The objective of the proposed work is to use the GODOT software to perform orbit determination and on-board navigation performance analysis for these types of missions. You shall then set up a scenario where the lander separates from the orbiter and performs a deorbit and landing maneuver to land on the planet and determine the performance of a navigation system composed of an inertial measurement unit, a radar altimeter (or radar doppler altimeter), and an RF-link with the orbiter, providing range and range-rate measurements.
Another task of the internship would be devoted to studying an approach for an autonomous robust control system for re-entry flight that exploits Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (INDI) and on-line (linear) Model Predictive Control (MPC) to facilitate combined guidance & control solutions while guaranteeing robustness and feasibility.
Finally, you will assist the team in integrating their hardware onto the test facility, run the tests, and produce test reports. Experiments may also be performed with an ESA-owned cubesat attitude control subsystem. This promises to be a rewarding internship through which you will gain direct insight into how AOCS and GNC systems work and behave, from design to hands-on testing.
Learning objectives include:
Result Orientation
Operational EfficiencyFostering CooperationRelationship ManagementContinuous ImprovementForward Thinking
You must be a university student, preferably in your final or second-to-last year of a university course at Master's level, and you need to remain enrolled at your University for the entire duration of the internship.
The working languages of the Agency are English and French. A good knowledge of one of these is required. Knowledge of another Member State language would be an asset.
Knowledge and background in Estimation and Control techniques, as well as practice of Matlab/Simulink/C++/Python is an asset.
ESA is an equal opportunity employer, committed to achieving diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. We therefore welcome applications from all qualified candidates irrespective of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, beliefs, age, disability, or other characteristics. Applications from women are encouraged.
At the Agency we value diversity, and we welcome people with disabilities. Whenever possible, we seek to accommodate individuals with disabilities by providing the necessary support at the workplace. The Human Resources Department can also provide assistance during the recruitment process. If you would like to discuss this further, please contact us via email at contact.human.resources@esa.int.
Please note that applications are only considered from nationals of one of the following States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Nationals from Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Slovenia, as Associate Member States, or Canada as a Cooperating State, can apply as well as those from Bulgaria, Croatia, and Cyprus as European Cooperating States (ECS).
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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