It's easy to take spacecraft communications for granted.
This training course will consist of formal lectures with lots of interaction with the students and will be provided by an ESA Engineer belonging to the Advanced Mission Concepts and Management Support Office of the Mission Operations Department of ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
In addition to the lectures, the students will be asked to apply their gained knowledge during a challenging group project.
The students will also learn about ESA's European space Security and Education Centre and the activities performed on site, including Galileo and PROBA spacecraft's operations.
At the end of the training course, the students will have a solid understanding of the challenges of communicating with a spacecraft and the subsystems involved in communications: what can go wrong, troubleshooting, and traps to be avoided during operations and testing.
ESA Academy and relevant partners will only appraise applications from students who have no or limited professional experience in relevant engineering or space-related topics;.
Be enrolled as a Bachelor, Master, or PhD student in a university for the year 2021-2022;.
Selected students will be requested to attend all afternoon sessions live.
Upon completion of the training course students will be evaluated via an online questionnaire and will receive a certificate of participation and a course transcript, allowing them to request ECTS credit(s) from their respective universities.
Students wishing to apply for the training course must submit their applications by 10 January 2022.