Internship - Mission Parts & Loads

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 Parts & loads team that elaborates and optimizes trajectory for our launch vehicle, perform the safety studies, computes the environment loads along the trajectory for the other development teams. The team is also in charge of developing the key products of the launcher such as the fairing, the Launch Vehicle Adapter and the Interstage structure.

Withing Mission Parts & loads team we propose 3 training topics for 2025:

Upper Part Structures Design: Mentored by the upper-part engineer and in relation with the business stakeholders you will be in charge to pre-develop and conceptualize preliminary designs for satellite upper part structures, with the stake of creating zero debris. The role includes pre-sizing for static and dynamic load cases.

Low-Frequency Buffeting: Mentored by our expert in dynamics you will study and compute dynamic responses to low-frequency excitation load cases, analyzing how different designs answer and withstand various operational conditions during a launcher life from ground to flight phases.

Skills

•vDynamics: Msc NASTRAN

• Upper parts ; SolidWorks, Optistruct

• Good level of English

Know-how

• Team spirit, sharing and solidarity

• Curiosity, Adaptation, Creativity, Proactivity

• Pragmatism

• Rigor and precision

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. Written and spoken communication is in French and English.