Join the EPFL Spacecraft Team!
Do you want to take part in the biggest, student-led Swiss space mission?

Gain experience on real projects

Apply theory into practice

Develop your skills in leadership and project management

Work on an ambitious project

Kickstart your career as an engineer
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Develop your network by meeting professionals in the industry
What matters is not only what you currently know, it's what you are willing to learn.
Motivation, curiosity, autonomy and proactivity are essential for us.
What are you interested in?
Technical
System Engineering
Partnership coordinator
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Design a sponsorship proposal
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Investigate new sponsoring opportunities
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Maintain relationships with external companies who are interested in sponsoring us.
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Come up with your own ideas
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Soft skills
Power System
Power system engineer
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Estimate State of Charge of Batteries for Battery monitoring
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Finalize and Confirm Power simulations
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Test the Power Distribution Board of the EPS
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Test the Batteries of on the EPS
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Discussions and work with the rest of the team to keep the system up to date
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microcontrollers, electronic basis, coding skills (mainly for programming microcontrollers, C/C++)
Attitude Determination & Control System (ADCS)
Power system engineer
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Estimate State of Charge of Batteries for Battery monitoring
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Finalize and Confirm Power simulations
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Test the Power Distribution Board of the EPS
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Test the Batteries of on the EPS
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Discussions and work with the rest of the team to keep the system up to date
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microcontrollers, electronic basis, coding skills (mainly for programming microcontrollers, C/C++)
Structure
Concept of Operations development
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Finalizing the CONOPS
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Implement it in Valispace (MBSE tool)
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Duty cycles analysis
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Power, Data, Mass budgets determination
Flight Software
Concept of Operations development
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Finalizing the CONOPS
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Implement it in Valispace (MBSE tool)
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Duty cycles analysis
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Power, Data, Mass budgets determination
On-Board-Computer (OBC)
Power system engineer
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Estimate State of Charge of Batteries for Battery monitoring
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Finalize and Confirm Power simulations
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Test the Power Distribution Board of the EPS
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Test the Batteries of on the EPS
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Discussions and work with the rest of the team to keep the system up to date
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microcontrollers, electronic basis, coding skills (mainly for programming microcontrollers, C/C++)
Telecommunication
Ground station emulation vhf/uhf communication
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Definition of the TC/TM protocol commands in consultation with the project partners concerned .
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Implementation and test of a suitable GUI application for the local generation of TC commands and the decoding of received TM commands.
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Implementation and test of the channel coding for the uplink and downlink radio channels according to project requirements. channel according to project requirements.
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Matlab, Gnu Radio advantageous
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Soft skills
Baseband electronics for X-band communication terminal
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Familiarise yourself with the project
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Identify and describe function blocks for baseband signal processing.
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Evaluate commercially available components
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Prototype and characterise key functions (e.g. modulation)
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System simulation with AWR Design software advantageous
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Soft skills
Power amplifier for x-band (10 GHz)
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Familiarise yourself with the project
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Identify and describe the functional blocks for power amplification
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Evaluate commercially available components
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Prototype and characterise key functions (e.g. driver, pa)
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System simulation with AWR Design software advantageous
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Soft skills
Mission Design
Concept of Operations development
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Finalizing the CONOPS
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Implement it in Valispace (MBSE tool)
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Duty cycles analysis
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Power, Data, Mass budgets determination
Management
Sponsoring
Partnership coordinator
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Design a sponsorship proposal
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Investigate new sponsoring opportunities
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Maintain relationships with external companies who are interested in sponsoring us.
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Come up with your own ideas
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Soft skills
Communication
Concept of Operations development
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Finalizing the CONOPS
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Implement it in Valispace (MBSE tool)
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Duty cycles analysis
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Power, Data, Mass budgets determination