Research Contract in Aerospace Engineering and Naval Architecture: Autonomous Cislunar Relative Orbit Control for CubeSats (ACRO-Cube) Politecnico di Milano in Italy

PhD opportunity in autonomous spacecraft collision avoidance within the MSCA COFUND BEST programme. The project is titled “Autonomous Collision Avoidance Guidance for Low-Thrust Spacecraft: A Combined Pontryagin Principle and Learning-Based Approach” and focuses on developing a fuel-efficient, reliable, and computationally efficient guidance algorithm for satellites facing conjunction events with other spacecraft or orbital debris. Research focus. The work combines optimal control theory, machin...

Politecnico di Milano , through its Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DAER), is recruiting for a research contract focused on the mechanical characterization of planetary surfaces . The project aims to define a methodology and an instrumentation architecture for studying the mechanical properties of surfaces in space environments. The research is centered on in-situ exploration of Solar System small bodies , with applications to lunar missions and asteroid missions . The work combi...

Fully funded PhD/MASc opportunity in Aerospace Structural Dynamics and FEM at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), in collaboration with Concordia University , Bombardier Aerospace , and Jaunt Air Mobility . The project focuses on high-fidelity structural modelling , reduced-order models , and aircraft dynamic analysis . This is a strong fit for students interested in aerospace engineering , mechanical engineering , finite element modelling, structural dynamics, and computational analysis. The ...

The University of Groningen is recruiting a PhD researcher for the national Resident Space Object Tracking For Fusion, Inference, and Characterisation (RSO TraFFIC) project. The six-year, €2.6 million collaboration brings together universities, research organisations and space companies to improve the monitoring, tracking and characterisation of objects in Earth orbit. Based in the Groningen team, the PhD project will focus on AI and space domain astronomy . The researcher will adapt astronomica...

Cranfield University is offering a PhD project on the modelling and control of large space structures (LSSs) for future space missions, including space-based solar power systems, ultra-wide telescopes, space data centres and large antenna systems. The research will address the challenging interaction between attitude and orbit control systems and the nonlinear flexible structural dynamics of very large orbital structures. These systems may extend from hundreds of metres to kilometres and may be ...