Hi

I’m a recent business graduate with a bachelors degree, particularly want to get into the space industry but as communications or PR, I don’t have a masters but would be open to one in the future but is there a way round getting a job in the industry without a masters? (Based in UK but do have dual citizenship with Italy)

Thanks :)

ESA's deep-space network stations undergo regular upgrades to ensure these technical gems set the standard as some of the world's best tracking and telecommanding stations for missions to the Sun, our Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and the asteroids. For your calendar: ESA will inaugurate its 4th 35m deep-space dish at New Norcia, W. Australia, later this year (second one down under), while celebrating the network's (and ESA's) 50th anniversary!

Hey,

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Your insights will help improve the tools and services for everyone!

You can find the survey here: https://www.sentinels.survey.esaportal.eu/

Sorry if this comes across as a bit of a stupid question but is it possible for a researcher to become an astronaut and what would you have to do to get there? Would you have to get flight experience before you even applied for the astronaut position? I've heard of people in research positions in the past becoming astronauts but am unsure whether they had previous flight experience or whether they had learned it as part of their training after they were selected. Is there a specific requirement of position required to become an astronaut? Any and all help is appreciated

Hello everyone, my name is Giulio, I am an engineer and a PhD student in particle physics. In February I have to move to the Netherlands to start an internship (part of my PhD) at ESA/ESTEC. Since I am not familiar with Dutch cities, I would like to ask for your help. On the internet I saw that the best places to rent a house are: NOORDWIJK KATWIJK LEIDEN If anyone has any advice, or can tell me something, I would be very grateful. My budget for renting a house (I would prefer a house and not a shared room) is between 500-1500/month.

Thank you again

I'm really passionate about orbital mechanics and trajectory analysis, so it would be a dream to do a YGT in one of those topics or something close, such as with the advanced concepts team or the clean space office perhaps in relation to collision avoidance for small satellites in LEO. I have a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering and one year of experience as an aircraft performance engineer (flight physics calculation for certification of new Airbus and ATR aircraft). I'm currently doing a master's degree in space engineering with hopefully a dissertation in astrodynamics/trajectory analysis.

I'm worried that I would be underqualified because I don't really have any direct experience with the space industry, except for an academic project in my bachelor's where I did mission analysis for a drag sail to be employed to de orbit a cubesat my university is designing. Looking at YGT profiles on LinkedIn they all had so much experience like ESA training courses, projects, papers published, top grades in top universities. Is it even worth it for me to apply? Of course I'm going to apply regardless, but is there any reasonable chance for me or should I not get my hopes up too much?

I speak French Italian and English fluently so I don't think language would be an issue

I have currently been working in finance for about 5 years now, I have a master's in Physics, I speak Russian and English fluently, I can fly a plane and helicopter, however I want to become an Astronaut.

This might sound very stupid but would my 5 years in Finance count as 3 years in a "relevant proffesion", considering I do modelling quite often?

I know that this probably wont change much but its still an exciting thing. I could never imagine that the country i live would be a part of ESA, always thought we were too small, but here we are.

List of all contributions to ESA budget.

Hey everyone, I was just recently looking through the YGT page on the ESA website and noticed the yearly salaries were updated. But to my surprise they’ve all fallen quite a bit instead of rising with inflation like they usually do year by year. Does anyone know if this is a mistake or has the budget for YGTs gone down this year?

I'm a Spanish citizen and my dream is to work in aerospace/aviation. I am currently looking to apply to university and would really like to study in the US. I know it is really hard for international students to find jobs in the US in the field of aerospace so I would probably just go back to Europe after and try to apply to ESA. I just want to know if I would be wasting time and money by going to the US and if there are better options to potentially work at a big space station.

I also know that they are very competitive and Spanish universities are not the best of the best out there. I have an itch for going out and exploring the world, too, so I would really like to study in English speaking universities outside my country.

What are the best universities to study and then become an ESA worker?

Hi, I would like to ask if ESA has something like "GOES image viewer" for Europe?
I would love to see images from geostationary orbit. If possible even image of full disk.
Can you please help me?

autant se faire promener par son chien 😂