Internship: Automated Validation of Operational Scenarios in Mission Control

About the role

Aerospacelab, a vertically integrated company combining small satellite design and manufacture with earth observation services, offers an internship within its Satellite Operations team. The mission control system is the central tool for planning, commanding and monitoring spacecraft, and every new feature must be validated against realistic operational conditions before use. Currently validation relies largely on manual tests, so the intern's goal is to make it automated and systematic.

Key responsibilities

• Define a library of operational scenarios such as routine nominal day, heavy acquisition uplink, maneuver cancellation and bad link.
• Prepare reference results for each scenario.
• Automate the playback of the scenarios and compare them with the references.
• Deliver a scenario library, reference results, an automated test suite with reporting and user documentation.

Required profile

• Generic knowledge of space operations.
• Apprenticeship contract type.

Required skills

• Python
• Linux
• Testing and CI skills

What we offer

• A career path built by you.
• Direct impact on the company's growth.
• Flat hierarchy and fast-paced environment.
• Flexible ways of working.
• A salary package consistent with your experience.