"Developing sustainable aircraft, connecting people, observing and understanding Earth, and making the world a safer place: EADS does things that matter. Ever since its inception in 2000, EADS has constantly drawn from the strength that comes from integration. The Group brings together businesses that are market leaders in their own right, forming a collective driven by a single vision.
EADS includes Airbus as the leading global manufacturer of the most innovative commercial and military aircraft, with Airbus Military covering tanker, transport and mission aircraft. Astrium, the European leader in space programmes and the third biggest space provider worldwide, is active in all space activities, from large-scale space systems to satellite services.
Cassidian, worldwide leader in state-of-the-art solutions for armed forces and civil security worldwide, also makes EADS the major partner in the Eurofighter consortium and a stakeholder in the missile systems provider MBDA. Eurocopter is the world’s primary helicopter manufacturer in the civil sector, offering the largest civil and military helicopter range in the world.
EADS — its people and its innovations — plays a role in creating some of the world’s biggest success stories, helping to make tomorrow’s technology a reality."
"Earthrise Space, Inc., is a non-profit research laboratory and student training ground. The company has the goal of providing students with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience designing, building, testing and operating real spacecraft. It is our belief that the skills and knowledge gained from this unique experience will provide students with a significant advantage as they enter the workforce and seek high-tech jobs in aerospace or related industries. ESI allows students to take on the responsibility of designing and building complex spacecraft systems. The company forces them to work together with other students, company management and senior engineering advisers and experts in a fast paced, multi-disciplinary environment. Students must satisfy challenging engineering constraints and manage customer requirements. They are encouraged to innovate and explore, and to learn from and overcome mistakes that are made along the way. These efforts provide the students with critical real-world experience unavailable to them from the classroom or through internships with large corporations.
ESI is excited to be a part of this game-changing time in space exploration, where government ventures are being supplemented and in some cases completely replaced by private, entrepreneurial "NewSpace" companies. This barnstorming era is seeing the development of new innovations, breakthroughs, and capabilities which are enabling and driving forward commercial exploration and development of space. ESI, through participation in the Google Lunar X PRIZE, and through other projects, intends to expose students to this new industry, while providing them with the skills, knowledge, and experience they need to actively make a difference in it. Humanity is on a path to the stars, and ESI is doing its part to help us on our way."
"ILC Dover is a dynamic, entrepreneurial engineering development and manufacturing company focused on solving unique customer problems. We are best known for the design and development of NASA extravehicular space suits and the Mars Pathfinder inflatable impact system. We are also leaders in the design and development of tethered and manned airships, high tech aerospace, defense, commercial, and flexible containment applications.
If you are challenged by a fast paced, continuous improvement culture and want to work with a team of experts in high tech non-rigid materials, using state of the art analytical and production systems, please contact us.
We offer an attractive benefits package and industry competitive compensation."
"NASA conducts its work in four principal organizations, called mission directorates:
Aeronautics: works to solve the challenges that still exist in our nation's air transportation system: air traffic congestion, safety and environmental impacts.
Human Exploration and Operations: focuses on International Space Station operations, development of commercial spaceflight opportunities and human exploration beyond low Earth orbit.
Science: explores the Earth, solar system and universe beyond; charts the best route of discovery; and reaps the benefits of Earth and space exploration for society.
Space Technology: rapidly develops, demonstrates, and infuses revolutionary, high-payoff technologies, expanding the boundaries of the aerospace enterprise."
Dulles, Virginia – Orbital’s Dulles, Virginia campus is home to the company’s headquarters. In addition, it is home to the company’s Space Systems Group, Advanced Programs Group, as well as some of our Launch Systems Group engineering and program management functions.
The Space Systems Group designs and manufactures commercial communications satellites as well as spacecraft used for space science and technology demonstration missions. Integration and testing of Orbital satellites occurs in the company’s state-of-the-art Satellite Manufacturing Facility on campus.
Our Advanced Programs Group (APG) develops human-rated space systems for NASA programs, new launch vehicle technologies, and satellites and other systems used for national security space programs.
The Dulles Launch Systems Group (LSG) is the home to the Pegasus and Taurus space launch vehicle programs as well as the systems engineering teams for two of the company’s largest missile defense programs: the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program, and the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) program.
Greenbelt , Maryland – Orbital’s Technical Services Division (TSD) provides cost-effective engineering, production and technical management expertise for space-related science and defense programs. TSD supplies engineers, scientists, technicians and other professionals with specific knowledge in the areas that our customers are pursuing. These Orbital employees often work side-by-side with our customers’ technical staff at their facilities.
Chandler, Arizona – Orbital’s Chandler, Arizona facility is home to the majority of Orbital’s Launch Systems Group where engineering, design, testing, and manufacturing of the company’s launch vehicles is performed. Chandler LSG programs include Pegasus and the family of Minotaur space launch vehicles. The majority of engineering and testing for Orbital’s missile defense interceptor and target vehicle programs occurs at the Chandler campus.
Interns at Chandler have been tasked with projects such as project design reviews, fatigue analysis, program development (including the creation of test software), manufacturing support, test preparation and organization, and creating qualification matrices.
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California – The Vandenberg AFB, California facility is part of Orbital's Launch Systems Group, and is where final system integration and test activities are conducted for various orbital and sub-orbital launch vehicles. Vandenberg also serves as one of Orbital's primary launch sites.
Orbital interns at Vandenberg have been tasked with many diverse projects such as designing/procuring material for a motor tie down system to secure rocket motors to integration dollies, assisting with the preparation of integration and test procedures, and working closely with mentor Engineers to complete work packages for the Pegasus program.
"Pioneer Astronautics is a hands-on research and development company dedicated to inventing and proving new technologies to advance humanity's reach into space and to improve life on Earth.
Since our founding in January 1996, Pioneer's innovative team has proven successful in demonstrating a series of dramatic innovations that have the potential to open up radical new capabilities for space exploration systems. Our areas of research have included new methods of rocket propulsion, systems for manufacturing rocket fuel and oxygen on Mars, spacesuit breathing systems, solar sails, magnetic sails, Mars balloon systems, and robotic Mars rocket hoppers. Our customers have included NASA's Johnson Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, Kennedy Space Center, Jet Propulsion Lab, the NASA Institute of Advance Concepts, the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, and the United States Air Force Phillips Lab.
Located in Lakewood Colorado, Pioneer has extensive capabilities for rapid prototyping and investigation of innovative technical concepts."
"Planetary Resources’ mission is clear: apply commercial, innovative techniques to explore space. We will develop low-cost robotic spacecraft to explore the thousands of resource-rich asteroids within our reach. We will learn everything we can about them, then develop the most efficient capabilities to deliver these resources directly to both space-based and terrestrial customers. Asteroid mining may sound like fiction, but it’s just science."
"What we [SSTL] do: Provide complete in-house design, manufacture, launch and operation of small satellites Deliver complete mission solutions for remote sensing, science, navigation and telecommunications Deliver space training and development programmes including on-the-job customer training Design and build remote sensing and communications payloads Supply avionics suites and subsystems Build and install ground infrastructure Provide consultancy services"
"Thales Alenia Space is at the heart of the most high-performance satellite technologies in both civil and defense sectors."