Recovery System Engineer

Aristotle Space & Aeronautics Team • Higher Education • Space Defense • Python • C++ • MATLAB • 3 years ago

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Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 3, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 18, 2022. Aristotle Space & Aeronautics Team scores D on the Alion truth index.

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Aristotle Space & Aeronautics Team

Aristotle Space & Aeronautics Team (ASAT) is the aerospace student team of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, where student members design, build and fly unmanned aircraft and rockets. Founded in November 2015 as the first aerospace student team of the university, it works through two technical departments, Aeronautics and Rocketry, alongside a marketing group, and has ranked among the top ten European student teams in both fields at international competitions. Its open member positions cover propulsion, avionics hardware and software, structures, aerodynamics, recovery systems, trajectory analysis, IT administration, graphic design and fundraising.

asat.gr • HQ: Thessaloniki, Greece • Space Defense • Higher Education • Est. 2015

The Recovery Engineer is in charge of getting the rocket back safely on the ground, usually with a set of two parachutes opened at different times so that the rocket can touch down safely without drifting too far away. We are looking for someone to design, manufacture and test our new set of parachutes!

Participates in the below projects:

Project Sky dancer,

All of the rocket projects currently running

Responsibilities:

Thorough research on recovery parachute systems and geometries suitable for any mission.

Analysis and optimization in the design of parachutes.

Calculate the descent rates and forces created on the parachutes.

Work on prototypes to research new and optimized solutions to improve the recovery systems.

Manufacture the designed parachutes.

Design, plan and execute the ground and drop testings of the parachutes. Apply what you designed by working hands-on on real-world problems. Cooperate with the other members of the Recovery subsystem.

Update and create the documentation.

Learned Skills:

Computational Fluid Dynamics

CAD Softwares (Inventor, Solidworks)

Various Programming Languages (Matlab, python C++) MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

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