Career Opportunities: Young Graduate Trainee for Analogue Research Testing and Operations

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
Young Graduate Traineeship Opportunity in the Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration Programmes.
ESA is an equal opportunity employer, committed to achieving diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. Applications from women are encouraged.

Location:
EAC, Cologne, Germany

ESA Agenzia Spaziale Europea
ESA CAVES
The Astronaut Training Division, located at the European Astronaut Centre at Cologne is responsible for the definition, development, implementation and evaluation of ESA astronaut training programmes. Two such programmes are CAVES (Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills) and PANGAEA (Planetary ANalogue Geological and Astrobiological Exercise for Astronauts).

CAVES is meant as a multidisciplinary and multicultural team exploration mission in a cave. These training events recreate situations that are spaceflight analogue in terms of perception of risk, crew composition, isolation, confinement and at the same time provide a real opportunity for spaceflight-like operations, science, equipment testing, and exploration, in preparation of future planetary endeavours. During the training events, different technologies for cave mapping, navigation, underground communication and documentation have been tested and several scientific experiments focused on the peculiar subsurface environment have been performed.

The PANGAEA course develops observational and decisional skills in identifying prominent geological features on field, conducting efficient sampling and reporting correctly to the ground the observations gathered during the field activity. The training involves the use of technological tools for sampling and scientific analysis on field and also the development of operation concepts for geological field activities. PANGAEA is conducted in European Geopark analogue environments

Research potentialities in the unique environments of CAVES and PANGAEA have attracted the interest of many institutions, companies and agencies worldwide, which proposed their own experiments for the two training expeditionary events. ESA decided to conduct a first preliminary test campaign associated to both the CAVES & PANGAEA programmes in the fall of 2017.

Two main objectives have been identified for this campaign: testing of technologies and operations for geological and geo-microbiological sampling, and testing of technologies for exploration, mapping, navigation and communication in low lighting conditions and rough terrain. Both these objectives are within the general aim to acquire knowledge on how to develop exploration and field geology strategies for planetary missions, with a specific focus on lunar settings. The technologies and operations implemented during the testing campaign could be applicable either or both to human and robotic exploration.

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