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Vega’s ESTCube-2 tether to the future, Estonia’s next satellite will fly aboard Europe’s Vega VV23 launcher later this week. While largely designed and built by undergraduate students, the shoebox-sized ESTCube-2 has ambitious goals in mind, including surveys of Estonian vegetation and the first successful in-orbit demonstration of ‘plasma brake’ technology. Deployment of a charged microtether will slow the CubeSat’s orbit, proving the prospect of helping to keep space clear of dangerous debris in the https://lnkd.in/eBH5hhP4

Do you have an ambition to set up your space mission? Are you looking for ways to supply your specialists with all necessary skills and knowledge to do this? Read the info below, I am sure you will get a guide what to start with.

Aerospace Industry: New Development Prospects OKB5 has approved a step-by-step development strategy for aerospace laboratories for current and future partner universities. You can find a brief description of the document here → https://lnkd.in/eEpgKNeC, and the full document can be sent upon your request. This roadmap outlines our vision for building an aerospace system within educational institutions, where our specialists will provide support and guidance at every stage, ultimately leading to the establishment of a self-sufficient infrastructure capable of implementing its own satellite programs and graduating new specialists annually. Why it is important: Many universities aspiring to undertake their own missions and regularly enhance their specialists' skills face challenges in determining the first step and attracting investors. Satellite development companies often focus more on engineering aspects, with less emphasis on educational ones. Therefore, OKB5's strategy and expertise will serve as an excellent guideline for realizing your ambitions for years to come. And, we have exciting news for those who consider the 1U format for their first mission. OKB5 has introduced a new concept for this form factor, based on integrating the key subsystems of the TriSAT picosatellite into the 1U Cleon platform. Why it is important: The new configuration will increase the available space for payloads by 2-3 times and reduce development costs, making potential missions more accessible to universities. Meanwhile, TriSAT remains a viable alternative, and we still have three units available for mission booking this year. → https://trisat.okb5.com/

I was recently invited to record a short speech for this year's graduating class at HARBOUR.SPACE, which forced me to ask myself... What does it mean to start your career at the precise moment that artificial intelligence is changing everything? How can young professionals prepare themselves to succeed in this environment? In case it's useful for others, here's my message:

How should the future aircraft look like? The question of what the future aircraft should look like remains open, with various configurations proposed, each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. This open-ended nature of the research question is what makes this field so exciting and full of potential. A few years ago, I proposed an approach to finding the optimum aircraft configuration using topology optimisation: An Aircraft from Nothing.   My former PhD, Ali Ghasemi developed the first step. Now, I have a new PhD position to continue the work. I recorded a 3-minute video to explain the new position. Here is the link to apply: https://lnkd.in/e8vP5d5K

Can the Space Propulsion Market open up to Engineers with Transferable Skills?    Here’s several points on how you can attract/ open up your talent pool to more engineers with diverse backgrounds:     ➡Skill Development: Host workshops, boot camps, and project-based learning experiences focused on space propulsion.    ➡Highlight Transferable Skills: Map how skills from other industries like the defence industry can apply to your space propulsion team.   ➡Training: This can be beneficial for the more junior positions when you have an already established senior team that can provide training. Junior engineers can evolve their current propulsion knowledge into these more specific positions.    ➡Collaboration: Organise conferences and networking events to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration.   ➡Policy Support: Encouragement from government and private sector funding for projects involving engineers from diverse backgrounds.   With these strategies, you can drive innovation and open new frontiers in space propulsion. What other points do you think would help open the market?   #propulsion #transferableskills #careerdevelopment 

Pleased to share more details of the work I did as an intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories over the past year, presented at AIAA SciTech '24. We investigated landings at the south pole of the Moon, which is essential to the overarching goal of setting up a permanent human presence on the lunar surface, due to the availability of water ice at the pole. Our work guarantees divert abilities to an alternate landing site, if the primary site is unviable. We make use of controllable sets and convex optimization approaches to ensure minimal on-board computing efforts to achieve feasible diverts. Algorithmic decision-making methods are introduced that dynamically change the priority order of alternate landing sites and autonomously select the best safe site ranked by a cost function. A high-fidelity simulation environment is synthesized using digital elevation maps (DEMs) of the lunar south pole that visualizes the terrain, using which we demonstrate terrain relative navigation (TRN), state estimation and hazard detection techniques. https://lnkd.in/eAaVK4wA

ESA scholarship for Belgian graduates available at the International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg As each year, ESA has made a number of scholarships available to be awarded to European candidates from ESA Member States, having acquired as a minimum a bachelor’s degree with good standing. The requirement of ESA is to have a spread over the different Member States and therefore to give priority to countries which have no scheduled participants. As the next class is being composed, it is noted that at this point in time there are no candidates from Belgium for the next academic year. As a reminder, the studies lead to an accredited M.Sc. degree in Space studies, but the interdisciplinary nature of the program also attracts, beside engineering and physical sciences graduates, students with life sciences, economy, policy and law, international relations and other backgrounds, demonstrating an interest in a career in the space sector. For further information, see also https://lnkd.in/eHTzKr8x or [email protected] Why not you!!

"Helicopter science" and datasets: Sarah Bratt, Sarah Stueve and colleagues studied the use of Global South (GS) data by Global North researchers (in 3200 Scientific Data papers), using OpenAlex and an LLM, ReFinEd, to identify entities in Geonames. The percentage of GS authors on GS data papers has risen, but on papers using GS data only 35% have a GS researcher as 1st or last author. p.s. Saying "ding" instead of "next slide" was new to me! #ICSSI #ScienceofScience #HelicopterScience #ScientificData #GlobalSouth