[ML-General] Fwd: [SpaceProgram] Call for ESA Summer of Code in Space 2015! ESA awards stipends of €4000 to selected students (please forward!)

[david]

Thought you might be interested:



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).
And we are now looking for students to spend their summers coding on 
great space software, getting paid €4000 by ESA, releasing scientific 
papers about their projects and supporting the open-source space community.

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:

* The Distributed Ground Station Network - global tracking and 
communication with small-satellites[2]
* The Comet Trails - cometary dust streams in space (part if the ESA 
IMEX program)[3]
* your very own proposal!

If you are a student, take your giant leap into the space community and 
the chance to be recognized by ESA headhunters.
If you are professor, feel free to propose this great opportunity to 
your students or even have your projects being coded and realized!

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.
Apply today, find all projects on the ESA SOCIS webpage![1]

We are waiting for you,


Andreas Hornig, Head of Platform


[0] http://constellation.aerospaceresearch.net
[1] http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2015/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC4Ls3AGHf4
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY0vjbBp4eg
[4] 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkklxZxjT-8&list=PL-lXf3kTWgqybFL-VOmVxKyjnrVPE7DBB


Feel free to forward this email to whomever you think it may concern!


### More Information ###

# About ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS):
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]


# About AerospaceResearch.net:
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]


# Comet Trails with Cosmic Dust Group (IRS/ University of Stuttgart):
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. >> www.irs.uni-stuttgart.de/cosmicdust 
<http://www.irs.uni-stuttgart.de/cosmicdust>


# Distributed Ground Station Network [DGSN]:
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!


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