Meet Ian Carnelli, project manager for Hera, our planetary defense mission that will very soon be launched into space.
Hera will be, along with NASA’s DART spacecraft, humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system, a little understood class making up around 15% of all known asteroids.
📹 ESA – European Space Agency
📸 NASA/ESA
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🚀 It’s not rocket science… oh wait it is!
Join Ariane 6 launch system architect, Tina, as she shows us a day in her life.
Tina has worked on space transport systems for 20 years now. She first worked on the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), then on the Ariane 5 Mid-life Evolution development and now on Europe’s newest launcher Ariane 6.
How did she become a rocket scientist?
“I was lucky enough to spend some months in French Guiana as a student for an internship and working there got me hooked – I was determined to come back for my job one day, and here I am: I spent a great part of 2023 in Kourou testing the Ariane 6 propulsion system, together with an amazing team of very skilled professionals.
I consider myself extremely lucky to have a job and colleagues that make me want to get out of bed and into the office every day – because we love what we do and because the people are simply amazing!”
📹 ESA – European Space Agency
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Aleksandra, 24, from Latvia, shares her experience as an ESA YGT. In this video, the Aerospace Engineer speaks about her work in the thermal analysis and verification section, working with measurements at cryogenic temperatures. Aleks also shows her experiment set up in the Mechanical Systems Laboratory (MSL).
Apply now for new Young Graduate Trainee opportunities:
http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Careers_at_ESA/Apply_now_for_new_Young_Graduate_Trainee_opportunities
Academic background series: Anne Pacros is a payload system engineer on the Solar Orbiter mission and finds working in a position where all the threads of the project come together fascinating.