Internship opportunity at the Austrian Space Forum Innsbruck, February 2010
Interface Documentation Passepartout Landing Radar System
The Austrian Space Forums‘ Innsbruck Office is offering an internship position in February 2010 to prepare for the implementation of a Landing Radar System in the framework of the PolAres Passepartout Balloon. The job encompasses the coordination with external partners in the Netherlands, also w.r.t. a potential application for the Google Lunar X Prize.
Desired profile:The canadidate must have a fundamental knowledge in space activities and should have scientific or engineering experience and be able to work self motivated. The project language is english. We expect the successful applicant to be active in the PolAres programme until the launch of the stratospheric ballon system, but the majority of the preparatory activities will take place in February. ISU alumni are highly encouraged to apply.
Tasks:
Concept development to integrate the external partners hardware into the balloon system, incl. Interface definition, including engineering, project management and institutional aspects. In addition to that the successful applicant will act as an assistant to the board (e.g. preparation of meetings etc..)
Salery: 450,00 € (working time approx. 35 h/week)
Location: ÖWF Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25/8, 6020 Innsbruck, Austrian and Spacesuit lab
Applications: Email to gernotgroemeroewforg, potential candidates will be conacted by us directly for an intervierw.
DEADLINE for this application is the 25th of December 2009, 12:00 p.m
PolAres Schedule Update
Between 01 - 28. February 2013, the Austrian Space Forum will conduct an integrated Mars analog field simulation in the northern Sahara near Erfoud, Morocco. Directed by a Mission Support Center in Austria, a small field crew will conduct experiments preparing for future human Mars missions mainly in the fields of engineering, planetary surface operations, astrobiology, geophysics/geology, life sciences and other.
This field mission is supported by the Ibn-Battuta-Center at the University of Marrakesh, Morocco. The Austrian Space Forum now solicitates proposals to be reviewed by a selection panel. The deadline for submissions is 15. June 2012, the announcement of the successful experiments will be released on 15. July 2012.
Detail
The analysis of Mars analogue environments on Earth is of paramount importance for the interpretation of the data from past, present and future orbital and landed missions, as well as mission planning (both robotic and human). Sedimentary environments in particular attract strong interest because they can retain the palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental history of the planet and under the right conditions may harbour fossil or present life signatures.
Date: 25. - 27. October 2012
Location: Conference Centre of the Hotel Meridien N'Fis at Marrakech, Morocco Organization: European Space Agency, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, International Association of Sedimentologits, Ibn Battuta Centre, IRSPS, Universite Cadi Ayyad.
Between 01 - 28. February 2013, the Austrian Space Forum will conduct an integrated Mars analog field simulation in the northern Sahara near Erfoud, Morocco. Directed by a Mission Support Center in Austria, a small field crew will conduct experiments preparing for future human Mars missions mainly in the fields of engineering, planetary surface operations, astrobiology, geophysics/geology, life sciences and other.
