Business description:

Our company is a venture-backed rocket company based in Qld, Australia that is developing new launch vehicles and satellites powered by lower-cost hybrid propulsion technologies.

Projects / tasks:

There are a wide range of workplans available from working on the integration, testing, development and verification of Avionics, Software, Electrical and GNC for rocket operations, to ground software initiatives for our launch site, to calibration for our G-Sat, to mechanical ground support for the design and running of rockets and working in manufacturing to support the Mechanical Department, in accordance with ethical, and legislative frameworks.

Technical skills:

Depending on the task, the interns’ skills would vary. It would be an expectation that each candidate possesses a:

• Be in their final year of study or recently completed their studies
• Capacity to read, understand and follow internal policies and legislative requirements
• Capacity to work both autonomously and as part of a team
• Familiarity with generic IT systems with the ability to be able to find or research information as required
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in its highest regard
• Confidence to evaluate projects and make recommendations as seen fit

However pursuant to each area, the intern would also be required and expected to possess some of the technical skills relevant to their area:

Launch Operations- Ground Systems Software

• • Willingness to learn about test systems, functional testing, and performance testing
  • Willingness to learn about software, hardware, and systems engineering
  • Capacity to work through challenges and failures in the product testing process

Mechanical- Mechanical/Mechatronic & Sub-orbital- Mechanical & GSAT

• • Willingness to learn on how to collect appropriate requirements for use in design of rocket development
  • Ability to understand how to develop a conceptual design and modelling
  • Engineering analysis skills
  • Understanding of how to interpret PDR deliverables
  • Exposure to the production of drawings suitable for manufacturing
  • Understanding of how design choices may affect construction processes
  • Willingness to learn about manufacturing including supply chain and logistics for projects and manufacturability assessments
  • Willingness to learn how to operate mechanical ground support equipment in support of integration activities

Mission Management- Mechanical

• • Basic research skills
  • Ability to employ critical thinking
  • Willingness to learn about Mechanical design tools, processes and systems including CAD
  • Engineering analysis skills
  • Ability to read and interpret varied reports
  • Effective communication skills for the purpose of developing relationships with varied persons

SEGA- Avionics/ Electrical & SEGA- Software/GNC & Mission Management- Avionics/ GNC

• • Willingness to learn about test systems, functional testing, and performance testing
  • Willingness to learn project planning systems, modelling and simulation tools
  • Willingness to learn about software, hardware, and systems engineering
  • Capacity to work through challenges and failures in the product testing process
  • Willingness to gain experience with User software including engaging with products, user stories and roadmaps

GSAT- Machine learning/AI

• • Basic research skills
  • Ability to employ critical thinking
  • Willingness to learn about Machine learning and AI and how these can be applied to satellite manufacturing, operation and design
  • Develop skills to work through challenges and failures in the product testing process
  • Ability to summarize and communicate information

Intern interpersonal qualities:

Well presented, good communication skills with the ability to work individually as well as in a team environment.

Mechanical:
High academic achievements, the involvement in rocketry and formula SAE clubs, as well as the completion of technical projects in their own time.

Launch Operations, Software:
A member of a software engineering club

Business description:

Our company designs, manufactures, tests and supports telecommunication equipment in the microwave/mm wave range. The company provides basic components such as filters and amplifiers to sub systems including high power up converters and low noise down converters to complete systems such as marine and terrestrial tracking terminals. These tracking terminals can find and lock onto specific satellites in the X, Ku and Ka bands. The Aust Navy and Border Force use these terminals on their boats for high data rate communications from anywhere at sea and in all conditions.

The terminals are a complex combination of electronic, electromagnetic, mechatronic and digital engineering. Because the company does the design, manufacture and testing of components and subsystems, there are plenty of opportunities for an intern with any of the above engineering skills to be involved For example, the frequency range covers DC to 30GHz and mechanical aspects include stress and vibration, thermal and heat flow and failure mode analyses.

Projects / tasks:

The main tasks that the intern(s) will participate in are aimed at improving the performance of the 1 t0 2.25m antenna tracking terminals. For the antenna, the efficient measurement of the key components of the feed network(polarisers, filters, radiating apertures etc) is essential to verify the overall antenna performance and to assess where the actual performance deviates from the modelling and how any such deviations can be improved.

The intern will learn how to perform accurate measurements and then will be tasked with ordering and presenting the measurement data in such a way that it can be readily assessed and used to improve the design.

Improvements are also required in the active components (Up and down converters and low noise and high-power amplifiers) connected to the antenna. These improvements involving researching and selecting advanced active MMICs (Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits) as they become available and then how to modify existing designs to incorporate these MMICs to enhance the performance. As well as the electronic design, the intern will be tasked with investigating features such as heat dissipation, low resistance, low capacitance mounting techniques, passive and active cooling and so on. These features are required to extend the bandwidth and environmental operational range of the terminals.

Technical skills:

Design and programming skills as well as a fair understanding of manufacturing processes.
SolidWorks experience would be highly regarded.

Intern interpersonal qualities:

Ability to communicate well with other engineers, technicians, and assemblers.
Problem-solving skills and adaptability will also be important.

Business description:

Provision of software and services for the Condition Based Maintenance markets in Defence, Mining, and similar asset intensive industries and segments. Includes predictive maintenance software, inspection apps and supporting software tools

Projects / tasks:

Development of applications and systems to support mobile data capture of observed and measured environmental and equipment health information. Including geotagging, imagine review and annotation and offline capabilities. Applications to be delivered on Android and iOS devices and used by industrial customers in both remote connected and disconnected environments.

Development of applications and systems to process, review and analyze data captured by remote data capture system. Applications to include data validation and correction, review and annotation of documents as well as graphs and statistical and numerical analysis of data.

Creation of web service API to expose equipment health data suitable for integration into data warehouse and data lake environments. Project includes authentication and authorization processes as well as QoS and PCS considerations such as request rate limiting and traffic throttling and load balancing.

Technical skills:

• C# .NET framework
• Typescript, Javascript
• HTML/CSS
• Azure Devops, Docker
• AWS Cloud services (EC2, Cloudflare, S3, SQS, Lambdas)

Intern interpersonal qualities:

• Positive attitude
• Willingness to learn
• Willingness to work as part of a team

Business description:

Design/manufacture of all components of a launch vehicle (rocket) system. These include but are not limited to; metallic and composite components (carbon fiber etc.), aerodynamic design, energetics (propellant), guidance systems (mechanisms and technology to guide a rocket), ground station (tracking/communications/control/monitoring etc.) and aerothermodynamics.

Projects / tasks:

Interns will have the opportunity to participate in projects across the variety of engineering specialties around the design/manufacture of all components of a launch vehicle (rocket) system.
These include but are not limited to; metallic and composite components (carbon fiber etc), aerodynamic design, energetics (propellant), guidance systems (mechanisms and technology to guide a rocket), ground station (tracking/communications/control/monitoring etc) and aerothermodynamics.

Technical skills:

Basic CAD skills, basic programming skills and/or basic understanding of electronic design.

Intern interpersonal qualities:

Good written and oral communication, as well as developed collaboration skills required.

Business description:

Designing custom hardware and developing software to be able to gather live telemetry information from rockets. Telemetry information consists of the location, velocity, orientation, environmental conditions and payload status of a rocket during flight.

Projects / tasks:

Developing custom hardware and software to inform projects for the GWEO. Examples would be flight computers, flight surface controllers and ground segment equipment for tracking and guidance of rockets and missiles.

Technical skills:

Basic CAD skills, basic programming skills (C/C++, Java, Python or C# are preferable) and/or basic understanding of electronic design.

Intern interpersonal qualities:

Good written and oral communication, as well as developed collaboration skills required.