Space Situational Awareness XR

Functie

Background

With the increasing importance of having a good overview of space objects in Earth’s orbit, Space Situational Awareness (SSA) has become a major development topic. NLR has been working on an SSA tool to get a better insight in trends and operations of the various satellites and orbiting debris, in order to better understand and predict possible risks, unexpected behaviour and avoid collisions. To make this more understandable and transition towards Space Situational Understanding (SSU), the results of the tool need to be displayed in a coherent and easy to grasp way. For this, a connection with the training department within NLR will be made to merge the two knowledge areas within this internship.

Assignment

The main objective of the assignment is to create visual resources (Extended Reality, XR) that will allow NLR’s industry partners, clients, colleagues, and the general public to intuitively see and understand how we are striving towards SSU, and how our society and industry would benefit from this. One essential SSA technology that’s being developed within NLR is the ability to be aware of satellites that are approaching our own satellites, days in advance. In a VR/AR/MR visualisation where one could look into space from the perspective of our own satellite, it would be much easier to display and elucidate such an approaching spacecraft. In addition, scenarios that relate to other NLR projects (e.g. satellite cyber security, Earth observation, air-launch, satellite payloads) are also in need of visual representations.

Result

The following outcomes of the internship are expected:

• VR/AR/MR visualization of the Earth;
  • Either seen from the perspective of a certain satellite, or zoomed out from afar.
• A connection between the SSA tool and a visual representation of its findings;
• A video displaying conceptual NLR projects, based on an existing script, using the created environment;
• A manual detailing the setup and use of the visualization;
• An internship technical report.

Duration

3-6 months (internship)

Profiel

Profile

• Student in the following fields:
  • Virtual Xperience Design;
  • Computer Sciences;
  • Game Development.
• Proficient in VR/AR/MR, preferably experience with the Unity Development Platform;
• Creativity, coming up with own ideas;
• Assertive and self-motivated, able to be part of the project team and also proceed individually.

Arbeidsvoorwaarden

What we offer

• A challenging project/internship in a high-tech result orientated work environment;
• A chance to closely work together with multiple departments;
• Weekly supervision and availability of the technical staff for support;
• An internship allowance;
• Working in an actual R&D project as part of the team;
• Learn from the NLR experience and get a better understanding of working at a company such as NLR;
• Internship results to be used in the current and future projects.

Informatie

About NLR

Royal NLR has been the ambitious research organisation with the will to keep innovating for over 100 years. With that drive, we make the world of transportation safer, more sustainable, more efficient and more effective. We are on the threshold of breakthrough innovations. Plans and ideas start to move when these are fed with the right energy. Over 650 driven professionals work on research and innovation. From aircraft engineers to psychologists and from mathematicians to application experts.

This assignment will be mainly managed by the SSA group within the Aerospace Systems and Information Supremacy (ASIS) department.

Solliciteren

Interested?

Send your application, together with your motivation letter and CV to Carlo Pelt and we will contact you as soon as possible. Or contact Carlo.Pelt@nlr.nl for more information.