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<div dir="ltr">The third year in a row, AerospaceResearch.net[0]
is proud to be selected as an official mentoring organization
for the Summer of Code in Space 2014 (SOCIS) program run by the
European Space Agency (ESA).<br>
And we are now looking for students to spend their summers
coding on great space software, getting paid â¬4000 by ESA,
releasing scientific papers about their projects and supporting
the open-source space community.<br>
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Until 30 April 2015, students can apply for an hands on
experience with applied space programs. Together with the Cosmic
Dust Group of the Institute of Space Systems (IRS) at the
University of Stuttgart, we are offering you various coding
work[1] on:<br>
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* The Distributed Ground Station Network - global tracking and
communication with small-satellites[2]<br>
* The Comet Trails - cometary dust streams in space (part if the
ESA IMEX program)[3]<br>
* your very own proposal!<br>
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If you are a student, take your giant leap into the space
community and the chance to be recognized by ESA headhunters.<br>
If you are professor, feel free to propose this great
opportunity to your students or even have your projects being
coded and realized!<br>
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Last year, we mentored 5 students during Summer of Code
campaigns[4] and now, we have released several papers, spent
computing power worth 60,000 PCs to those students projects and
even helping their bachelor theses, and we had been on plenary
stage with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield to promote those
projects during the International Astronautical Congress 2014 in
Toronto. We want to repeat that success, and now it's your turn.<br>
Apply today, find all projects on the ESA SOCIS webpage![1]<br>
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We are waiting for you,<br>
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Andreas Hornig, Head of Platform<br>
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[0] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://constellation.aerospaceresearch.net">http://constellation.aerospaceresearch.net</a><br>
[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2015/">http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2015/</a><br>
[2] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC4Ls3AGHf4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC4Ls3AGHf4</a><br>
[3] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY0vjbBp4eg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY0vjbBp4eg</a><br>
[4] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkklxZxjT-8&list=PL-lXf3kTWgqybFL-VOmVxKyjnrVPE7DBB">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkklxZxjT-8&list=PL-lXf3kTWgqybFL-VOmVxKyjnrVPE7DBB</a><br>
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Feel free to forward this email to whomever you think it may
concern!<br>
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### More Information ###<br>
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# About ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS):<br>
SOCIS "aims at offering student developers stipends to write
code for various space-related open source software projects.
Through SOCIS, accepted student applicants are paired with a
mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining
exposure to real-world software development scenarios. In turn,
the participating projects are able to more easily identify and
bring in new developers."[1]<br>
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# About AerospaceResearch.net:<br>
We are a DGLR young academics group at the University of
Stuttgart for aerospace related simulations applying distributed
computing. Our global citizen scientists community of 15,000
users are donating their idle computing time of 60,000 computers
and forming a virtual super computer connected via the Internet.
And this massive network is used for solving difficult space
numerics or for sensor applications. We are bringing space down
to Earth and supporting the space community from students to
organizations.[0]<br>
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# Comet Trails with Cosmic Dust Group (IRS/ University of
Stuttgart):<br>
The Interplanetary Meteoroid Environment for Exploration (IMEX)
is an ESA-funded project run at the Institute of Space Systems
(IRS, University of Stuttgart), which involves development of a
model for predicting the spacecraft impact hazard presented by
dust grains in meteoroid streams. Most Jupiter-family comets
have cometary trails, caused by dust released during that most
recent passage of each comet near the Sun. The risk to
spacecraft is a result of potentially high fluxes combined with
high impact speeds (of up to 70-80 km/s) with respect to the
spacecraft. >> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.irs.uni-stuttgart.de/cosmicdust">www.irs.uni-stuttgart.de/cosmicdust</a><br>
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# Distributed Ground Station Network [DGSN]:<br>
The Distributed Ground Station Network is a system for tracking
and communication with small satellites and other aerial
vehicles. The concept includes a global network of small and
cheap ground stations that track beacon signals sent by the
satellite, plane or balloon. The ground stations are located at
ordinary people at home, so called citizen scientists, and are
connected via the Internet. A broadcasted beacon signal is
received by at least 5 stations and can be used then for
trilateration to obtain the position of the signal's origin. For
this each ground station correlates the received signal with the
precise reception time, which is globally provided and
synchronized by GPS. This shall help small satellite provider
and even Google's Loon project to be able to track their
vehicles fast, globally and simple!<br>
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