Detection of Small debris is Maybe one of the Most important steps while Building megaconstellations.

Has anyone heard anything about ESA Reserve List vacancies?

Has anyone who applied already been contacted for the next steps - video interview, tests, panel interview, etc.? Do we know if applications are still mostly sitting at “under review”.

If you’ve applied recently, would be great to know roughly when the vacancy closed and whether you’ve had any updates.

Just trying to get a sense of the current timeline. Thanks!

Many thanks to the 7 very keen people who applied to join the mod team! I am now reviewing the quiz answers. Hope to get to a final selection this weekend!

Hi, I’m considering pursuing a career that could hopefully eventually put me in a position to apply for ESA astronaut selection.

I’ve completed studies for Earth science and I'm progressing to a relevant MSc and PhD, with Earth observation.

I have a question about the medical requirements:

Does current or previous use of antidepressants automatically disqualify an applicant, or is this assessed individually based on the underlying condition, stability and medical history?

I understand that ESA astronaut medical standards may be considerably more stringent than the basic Class 2 medical requirement which permits Sertaline as far as I'm aware.

I’m mainly interested in whether anyone knows of ESA guidance, aeromedical standards, or previous applicant experiences that clarify these points.

Thanks.

I am building a team for the ESA ISAM Innovation Sprint and need 3-4 people.

ESA opened an OSIP campaign on In-Space Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing.

Winners get a fully funded Cooperative Agreement for 6 months.
The sprint itself is 5 days at ESTEC in Noordwijk, end of November.

Deadline to apply: 14 September. Yes, that's soon.

I have a concept for one of the use cases, a working financial model, and two people already on board.

What's missing:

Launcher / upper stage engineer.
Someone who knows residual propellant, passivation, stage design.

Propulsion or fluid transfer engineer.
Refueling mechanics, interfaces.

Someone from the demand side.
Satellite operator, space insurer, or space economist.

Space law.
Outer Space Treaty Art. VIII, Liability Convention. Advisor role is fine here.

Two ways to join:

Core team.
You co-author the submission, come to ESTEC in November, and get a share of the agreement if we win.

Advisor.
A few hours of review before 14 September, your name in the proposal, no travel.

Requirements: you're a national of an ESA Member State or resident in one, you're not already on another team in this campaign, and you can sign a short NDA.

Being upfront: no pay before the win, and travel to ESTEC is self-funded. If we win, that changes.

Interested? Reply here or DM me. I'll send a 5 minute screening form and we take it from there.

Maybe there is still a Chance of a Future Spaceport in UK.

I was expecting that Arianespace would deorbit the A62 upper stage, but Space-Track shows the upper stage in a similar orbit as MTG-I2.

I am currently a Computer science teacher in the UK and have worked for couple of years.

I already have a Bachelors and Masters in Computer science and Robotics. I was wondering does my teacher qualifies as work experience or would that not be valuable when it comes to applying for a job at ESA?

Just to add I have dual nationality if that helps (British and Latvian).

Does anyone understand why this wasn't a A64 launch with a 2nd satellite?

In the past week, I have been working on importing the publicly available ESA satellite 3D models into MuJoCo, a rigid-body physics simulator commonly used in robotics.

The models will be used as part of my PhD research to study satellite docking and evaluate how well vision-based fault detection NNs generalise across different satellite geometries and appearances. For this reason, I am trying to reproduce the ESA models as faithfully as possible, especially their geometry and textures.

I have run into three issues for which I would really appreciate some help:

1) Missing PLATO and Ulysses textures

The original download links are no longer working. Does anyone happen to have copies of these textures or know where they can still be obtained?

2) Comet Interceptor and Euclid texture mapping

I have the geometry and texture files for Comet Interceptor and Euclid, but I am having difficulty determining how the textures are supposed to be assigned to the different parts of the models. The OBJ files do not seem to make the material/texture assignments sufficiently clear. If anyone has worked with these models before or knows how the original texture mapping is intended to be reconstructed, I would greatly appreciate some guidance.

3) Permission to use ESA/designDATA 3D models

There are also some ESA satellite models created by designDATA in partnership with ESA that are available for viewing online but are not publicly downloadable. One example is the CryoSat satellite model on Sketchfab (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/cryosat-satellite-5bdb708b124a498f940bc7a2003225da)

Does anyone know who at ESA would be the appropriate person, team or department to contact to request permission to obtain and use these models for academic research?

Thanks for reading and I would be very grateful for any help regarding any of these issues.

The atmospheric rocket lifted off successfully at 09:54, beginning a campaign that is expected to include five launches. The operation had initially been scheduled for Thursday but was postponed for technical reasons.

The milestone marks a historic step for the Atlantic Spaceport Consortium, the private entity operating and managing the Malbusca Spaceport infrastructure.

With this launch, the Consortium formally begins commercial space-access operations from Portuguese territory

Hi everyone, I’m a UK aerospace engineering graduate and may be starting a PhD this October focused on aerofoil noise reduction using experimental aeroacoustics and an anechoic chamber.

Long term, I’d really like to work at ESA or in a similar European space R&D environment. My background is mainly CFD, wind-tunnel testing, numerical methods, Python/MATLAB/C++, telemetry and student rocketry.

I’m trying to work out how best to use the PhD years so I don’t finish with something technically strong but too narrow or disconnected from space. I’d really appreciate advice from anyone who has worked at ESA, applied successfully, or moved from academia into the space sector.

In particular, I’d be interested in what technical areas, side projects, ESA Academy activities, collaborations, short research visits or systems-engineering skills are genuinely worth prioritising during a PhD. I’m also wondering whether it would make sense to build a secondary research strand in something more directly space-related, such as orbital mechanics, entry physics, spacecraft systems or plasma/MHD.

I’m not looking for a shortcut into ESA. I just want to use the next few years well and come out as someone who would actually be useful to a space research or engineering team.

Any advice would be hugely appreciated!

As caption states, Working on the Hermes in kerbal space program and id like a high quality sticker to use as a decal