Jobs
The vacant position is linked to the Operational Directorate (OD) Reference Systems and Planetology. The Planetology team studies the interior, surface and dynamics of planets and small Solar System bodies and develops instrumentation and data-analysis methods for planetary missions. The team is involved in several ESA planetary defence missions, including Hera and RAMSES. The ROB is Principal Investigator of GRASS (GRAvimeter for Small Solar System bodies) and also makes important contributions with the thermal imager, to improve the understanding of the interior, the dynamical state and the regolith/spacecraft interactions of the asteroids.
The vacant position is linked to the Operational Directorate (OD) Reference Systms and Planetology. The main tasks of this OD include contributing to the elaboration of reference systems and timescales, and integrating Belgium into the international reference frames for space geodesy and time. To support this research, scientists from this OD investigate geodetic techniques as well as the rotation, gravity field, tides and atmosphere of the Earth. The geodetic data are obtained from ground stations as well as from spacecraft orbit determination. The scientists are involved in several ESA missions, such as Genesis and NovaMoon, and are actively engaged in the development of measurement techniques, operations and data analysis.