Internship within Development: "How to survive a lunar night?"

Job description

Internship within Development: "How to survive a lunar night?"

Airbus Defence and Space Bremen (ex Astrium ST)

Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2017, it generated revenues of € 67 billion and employed a workforce of around 130,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as Europe's number one space enterprise and the world's second largest space business. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.

Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place. Taking pride in our work, we draw on each other's expertise and experience to achieve excellence. Our diversity and teamwork culture propel us to accomplish the extraordinary - on the ground, in the sky and in space.

Description of the job

Are you looking for an internship? Would you like to discover the work of a developer? Then apply now! We look forward to you joining us as an intern (m/f) in the department "Advanced Projects & Products" (35 hours/week, flexi-time).

Location: Bremen
Start: as soon as possible
Duration: 4-6 months

Afterwards there is the possibility for writing a final thesis, upon agreement with the department.

Current activities regarding human lunar exploration show the gained momentum towards an ongoing presence of humans on the moon. However, before a manned habitat on the lunar surface is feasible several key enabling technologies and processes need to be fully understood and mastered. One of the main challenges for robotic lunar landers and astronauts is to survive the long and cold lunar night. The extreme environmental conditions during these times of the lunar day cycle typically require special attention when it comes to thermal insulation and heat generation. Additionally, a sustainable future lunar base requires the utilization of in situ resources to be self-sufficient over a longer period of time. In order to select the appropriate technology for the respective lunar night survival strategy, performance and maturity of different heat source technologies like hydrazine based heaters, regenerative fuel cells, RHUs, etc. need to be assessed and compared to each other. The second important aspect is the scalability of these technologies e.g. from a robotic precursor mission up to a sustainable future lunar base.
Main question to be answered: how to survive a lunar night … with minimum available resources?

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Desired profile

Tasks & accountabilities

Your exciting tasks:

·  Comparison of heat source concepts regarding performance and technological maturity
·  Comparison of technologies for minimizing the radiative and structure-borne heat dissipation of the heated equipment
·  Thermal analysis of heat generation and dissipation for transient and steady state thermal cases
·  Set up of a simplified functional thermal model in Simulink
·  Support of lunar night survival concept design
·  Documentation of results

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Required skills

You offer:

·  Enrolled student within General/Electrical/Aerospace Engineering or similar field of study
·  Good knowledge in Matlab/Simulink programming
·  Experience in thermal modeling would be a plus (ESATAN/ThermXL, Systema)
·  Good knowledge in Microsoft Office, Excel Macro-programming
·  English: fluent,German would be a plus

You are a good team player, have excellent communication skills, and are able to work independently.