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<td>[SpaceProgram] [Deadline 30.April.2015] Call for ESA
Summer of Code in Space 2015! ESA awards stipends of €4000
to selected students (please Forward)</td>
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<td>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 20:23:46 +0200</td>
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<td>Constellation
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>just a reminder, that the deadline for ESA Summer of Code
in Space 2015 is April 30th.<br>
If you are an interested student, make sure to submit your
application on time.</p>
<p>Looking forward to receiver your application and have you on
board for coding for space!</p>
<p>For more information, read below...</p>
<p><br>
################</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p>* 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!</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>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]</p>
<p>We are waiting for you,</p>
<p><br>
Andreas Hornig, Head of Platform</p>
<p><br>
[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2015/">http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2015/</a><br>
[0] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://constellation.aerospaceresearch.net">http://constellation.aerospaceresearch.net</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>
[x] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/project/bigwhoop-global-spectrum-monitoring/">https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/project/bigwhoop-global-spectrum-monitoring/</a></p>
<p><br>
Feel free to forward this email to whomever you think it may
concern!</p>
<p><br>
### More Information ###</p>
<p># 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]</p>
<p><br>
# 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]</p>
<p><br>
# 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></p>
<p><br>
# 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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