Space Safety Intern: EcoDesign & Debris Mitigation

EU Satellite Centre (SatCen); Noordwijk; On-site; EUR 12,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

ESA is offering an internship in its Clean Space Office with locations at ESTEC (Noordwijk, Netherlands) and ESAC (Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain). You will engage with three topics: Ecodesign for space, Zero Debris End-of-Life management, and Active Debris Removal and In-Orbit Servicing, supporting engineering studies, data development, and methodology roadmaps.

Ideal candidates are Master’s students able to stay enrolled for the full duration.

Qualifications

• You must be a university student, preferably in your final or second-to-last year of university course at Master's level.
• You must be able to prove that you will be enrolled at your university for the entire duration of the internship.

Responsibilities

• You will have the opportunity to support the team to review and wrap-up past studies, support the development of datasets for improvement of the ESA LCA Database and support on-going studies to define the way forward (Topic 1).
• You will support the team responsible for further developing the Zero Debris approach and improving the End-of-Life management of current and future missions, including engineering studies, requirements, methodologies, and roadmaps (Topic 2).
• You will be supporting the team working on enabling the In-Orbit Servicing activities at ESA, including debris removal and life-extension efforts (Topic 3).

Skills

Result Orientation

Operational Efficiency

Fostering Cooperation

Relationship Management

Continuous Improvement

Forward Thinking

Education

Master's level student

Job description

ESA is offering an internship in its Clean Space Office with locations at ESTEC (Noordwijk, Netherlands) and ESAC (Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain). You will engage with three topics: Ecodesign for space, Zero Debris End-of-Life management, and Active Debris Removal and In-Orbit Servicing, supporting engineering studies, data development, and methodology roadmaps.

Ideal candidates are Master’s students able to stay enrolled for the full duration.