Internship / Analysis of telecommunication satellites pointing performances (m/f)

Description de l'offre

Internship / Analysis of telecommunication satellites pointing performances (m/f)

Airbus Defence & Space Toulouse (ex Astrium SL)

Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus Group, formed by combining the business activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military. This new division is the leading aerospace and defence company in Europe, it represents the second largest company in the space field and is among the ten best international defence companies. It employs some 40,000 people and records a turnover of approximately 14 billion euros per year.

Airbus Group is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2015, the Group - comprising Airbus, Airbus Defence and Space and Airbus Helicopters - generated revenues of € 64.5 billion and employed a workforce of around 136,600.

Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place. Taking pride in our work, we draw on each other's expertise and experience to achieve excellence. Our diversity and teamwork culture propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

Description of the job

Airbus Defence and Space (Toulouse) is looking for an intern for a 6 month internship.

Rotating reaction wheels used for AOCS create disturbance forces and torques than can degrade image quality of Science or Earth observation mission. One of the roles of the AOCS engineer during the design phases is to predict this impact.

The first steps of the process are the identification of the disturbances induced by the wheels, and the analysis of the disturbance propagation within a satellite structure, from the wheels to the instruments.

This internship will start on 3 rd April 2017 (subject to some flexibility).

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Profil recherché

Tasks & accountabilities

In this context, your objective is to improve the microvibration identification process, based on both Airbus Defence and Space internal studies results and academic publications, and making use of real test data.

The trainee shall then propose improvements of the disturbance propagation analysis process adapted to the methods developed for the identification part.

Required skills

You are in the 2nd year of a master's or the 5th year of engineering school, university or equivalent specializing in Aerospace Engineering.

You ideally have an initial experience in this domain.

You have knowledge of:

·  data processing: Space dynamics
·  Signal processing
·  Matlab / Simulink.

You are a strong team player and have excellent interpersonal skills.

English: negotiation level,
French: negotiation level.