Internship - Far ranges safety analysis and modelization

🚀 MaiaSpace is a European space tech company, designing, manufacturing and operating competitive and sustainable solutions for space mobility. We are driven by the belief that access to space is a major enabler for a better and more sustainable life on Earth, addressing the challenges faced by humanity: climate, resources, connectivity, and data. Our aim is to successfully design and test a cost-effective and reusable mini-launch vehicle by 2026.

Inside MaiaSpace development teams you will join the Mission & Safety team that studies the launcher trajectory, and the respect of the flight safety regulations.  Its core mission is to certify that the vehicle’s trajectory complies with all technical, regulatory, and environmental requirements 

This team is interfaced with many other launcher teams due to the impacts of all the launcher sub-systems on the trajectory. As part of this team, you will be at the heart of the preparation for the first launches. 

Withing Mission & Safety team we propose the following training topic for 2026: 

Far ranges safety analysis and modelization 

The internship will focus on strengthening the far range safety analysis that verifies compliance with FSOA (French Space Operations Act enforced by the CNES) constraints when the launcher is overflying foreign countries and can’t be neutralized anymore. You will become proficient with the current simulation and risk assessment tools, then develop robust interfaces to connect them with other in-house software. 

Depending on the needs at the time of the internship, you will take part to one or more of the following tasks: 

• Fall-out injection dispersion impact on reentries : analyzing and improving the method of the dispersion of the injection point and its consequence on the impact footprint 

• Survivability and fragmentation during reentries : conduct sensitivity analysis on fragmentation and automate/enhance the generation process. 

• Modelization and tools implementation for reentries analysis 

• Performance impact studies and Parametric studies on far range 

• Environnemental studies of reentries  

Skills 

• Proficiency in programming languages (Python, Gitlab). 

• Space & flight mechanics 

• General knowledge about spacecrafts 

• Good English level 

Know-how  

• Team spirit, sharing and solidarity 

• Curiosity, Adaptation 

• Pragmatism 

• Rigor and precision 

Conditions 

• 6 months from January 2026

• Location : La Défense/Courbevoie 

🎬 Working at MaiaSpace:

You will be joining a friendly multi-disciplinary team, comprised of multi-skilled people, following Agile and Scrum methodologies. This means that your role and responsibility may evolve over time with varied assignments and challenges depending on priorities and competences. Your work will be hands-on and in close contact with the final product. We are open-minded, transparent, pragmatic, result oriented and people centric. Teamwork is at the heart of how we work together, and our co-workers share the same fundamental values: respect, humility, reactivity and autonomy with a passion for technical excellence. Our newly acquired office space at La Defense is located within the heart of Europe’s largest purpose built business and commercial district with easy access to public transport. Also, we have a second location integration site in Vernon (27). Regular trips between the two locations are to be expected. These displacements may be extended to Kourou when the time comes. The company allows home office when it is compatible with your responsibilities.

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