Hey! We've been working since last year on a In Control: Rocketry, a spaceflight sim where you build the rocket and wire up its control panel yourself. Sensors, inputs, outputs, the whole thing is Turing-complete, so however you want to solve a flight problem, there's a way to do it. It will be available on Steam in 2027.

Real orbital mechanics, a fictional solar system to explore, sandbox mode if you just want to mess around and blow things up!

Feel free to add the game to your wishlist if you want to support the project! See you in space.

Hi all, I have my final interview at (3rd round) coming up at SpaceX. It going to be a 5 hour session. Other than the 45 min presentation and the several one on ones, I don’t know what to expect. Has anyone gone through this before? How can I prepare more? Also what percentage of people make it this far? Do I have good chances being that I’ve made it this far?

This is for an entry level engineering position. I thought I bombed the 2nd interview but they decided they wanted to move forward so here I am. I am also waiting to hear back for them to schedule it. But I am confirmed to be moving forward.

Don't know if this is the right place for this question, but here goes. (I'm a wannabe author, and am working on an exciting book of fiction that will involve aviation.)

If pilots landing planes at a specific airport start experiencing and reporting GPS jamming, what will the consequences be for the jammer? Who looks into this sort of thing, the NTSB? How many days will it take before they can locate and apprehend the culprit?

I'm proposing that the jammer is technically competent and has no financial limitations, so he can build a jamming system involving a steerable parabolic antenna that follows the plane as it makes its approach. If necessary, I can even claim that he mounts his jamming system in the back of a pickup truck and performs his jamming while on the move. (Unrealistic? Never mind, it's fiction, although I'd like to keep things somewhat realistic.)

Incidentally, the culprit is not trying to crash the planes, he's just trying to push the targeted airline into buying and installing an upgraded GPS receiver avionics box. And it works! For each plane with the new GPS box installed, no GPS jamming occurs - because the nasty bad guy stops jamming those planes!

Thanks for any feedback, or even for suggestions as to where I should post this question.

Edit:

Thanks for all the answers. But I'm proposing that the bad guy is specifically targeting the incoming airplane using a parabolic antenna. That should mean that the jamming radio-frequency energy is in a narrow beam up into the sky.

So I'm assuming this means that all the suggestions that the jammer will be easy to find via directional receivers on the ground are not viable. I'm assuming that there won't be any "leakage" of radio waves in any direction other than the focused beam up into the sky. (Is this a valid assumption?)

Thanks again for the answers, and I'm hoping this info makes the situation clearer.

Hi all, my aerospace corporation internship application moved from pending review to in process. Does this just mean an ai read my resume, and decided not to auto reject me?

Hi everyone!

I have an interview for Northrop Grumman’s Associate Electrical Engineer Pathways Program in Baltimore, MD, and I’m hoping to get some last-minute advice from anyone who’s interviewed for this program or a similar entry-level engineering position at Northrop. Specifically insight into potential technical questions.

Thanks in advance! I’d really appreciate any insight!

Hello Everyone, i am a student at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and i am need a help to choose my MSc Thesis topic. I'm most interested in flight mechanics and dynamics, air law, and fluidodynamics. Apart from aerospace my greatest passion is motorsport, if that can help. Can someone help me?

Applied to a PM role, just wondering about the technical rigor, specifically for project management, if anyone else has had any experience. I have an engineering background/experience.

any tips on specific things to brush up on would be appreciated :)

If we were to send up a new interstellar item designed to convey information about humankind, what aerospace developments have been made in the last 50 years that would change how much/what types of data we could store on it?

Hey everyone!
I have an upcoming phone interview with the hiring managers at SpaceX for the Test Specialist (Composite) position, and I’m hoping to get some insights from anyone who has worked in this role or gone through a similar interview.
I will especially appreciate advice from current or former SpaceX employees who understand the composite manufacturing, testing, and inspection environment.
A few things I’d love to learn about:
1.What should I expect during a phone interview with the hiring managers?
2.How technical does the conversation get?
3.Should I prepare for detailed questions about composite materials, testing procedures, and inspection methods?
4.What tools, equipment, and testing procedures?

Thanks in advance.

I am currently a sophomore, and I am applying to a big scholarship soon, and want to ensure that my resume is as good as possible. Any advice is greatly appreciated! I am struggling to keep it one page though, so keep that in mind when making suggestions!

I'm genuinely stumped how I've heard back from no one after applying to like 150 internships so far from early september. By this time last year I'd already had 2 offers in the bag and now I can't even hear back? I've targeted the primes like NG, LM, Boeing, RTX and some space companies and some drone companies applying primarily to their mechanical/manufacturing engineering internships. But I'm so confused because I feel like my resume this year is stronger than last year's because I have way more experience (I had none last year apart from that research position) and now I'm straight struggling to hear back from everyone. Advice is very much appreciated on anything I should tweak. I also only apply to jobs that drop on the same day which is a tactic that worked for me last year. Also another note my graduation date is supposed to be Dec 2027 which is what I've applied with to most jobs but given that I haven't even heard back from anyone I thought that could be the issue, but again I'm not sure

Hey everyone, I'm looking for some technical information regarding a few Parker Colorflow pressure-compensated flow control valves: PCK400S PCK400S-1.5 PCK400S-20 PCK600S20-3 If anyone is familiar with these, I’d appreciate some input on: What kind of hydraulic setups or industrial applications typically run these specific flow rates?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently planning my higher education and aiming to pursue a career in the aviation industry. I'm considering taking Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) as my major.

I’d love to get some guidance from professionals, students, or alumni in the field:

Is ECE a strong background for entering aviation? (e.g., working on avionics, navigation, radar, or flight control systems)

How does ECE compare to Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineering in terms of job opportunities in aviation?

Are there specific skills, projects, or certifications I should focus on during college to make myself industry-ready?

Exhaust does not stop changing when it leaves an engine. Reactions in the atmosphere can produce new particles and alter the chemistry of existing ones. In laboratory experiments, aircraft-combustor emissions became substantially more reactive as researchers simulated days of exposure to atmospheric oxidants.

Their oxidative potential per unit particle mass increased six- to sevenfold after aging equivalent to approximately 12 days. Emissions from a marine diesel engine showed a different pattern in the same chemical test. The contrast suggests that freshly emitted exhaust alone cannot describe how particle reactivity develops in the air.

The study, published in Environmental Science Atmospheres, was led by Markus Kalberer’s group at the University of Basel. Alexandre Barth and Battist Utinger were its two first authors. The work examined chemical indicators associated with potential harm, rather than measuring disease or demonstrating a corresponding increase in human toxicity.

I'm new to aviation, and, despite that, I'm writing a book where airplanes will play a major role. But all the abbreviations and tech info has my head spinning. So to try to get a clear idea of how this works I've created a graphic using Draw.io.

Any comments, criticism or corrections will be very welcome.

Edit: This version is obsolete, see new version in the comments.

I am indian citizen and thinking of doing bachelros in Germany at TUM , i know both languages german and french

will I get job after masters like what are the carrer opportunities I am worrying about that security rules and all

and my other two options are EEIT or mechanical from Germany . Can somebody who is really in industry please tell me where I have more chances of getting job

If we talk about passion :it's AEROSPACE or MECHANICAL but I also need near gaurenteed job after masters

Human brain tissue and beating cardiovascular organoids are headed into orbit to face an unusual laboratory test. Their destination is the International Space Station, where weightlessness and radiation exposure could reveal vulnerabilities difficult to study on Earth.

The Mount Sinai investigations are traveling aboard SpaceX CRS-35, which launched October 13. They bring together researchers in stem cell biology, neuroscience, surgery and cardiovascular science at the Icahn School of Medicine.

One project uses a personalized brain tissue model called miBrain. The other places cardiovascular organoids inside microfluidic chips, miniature devices that manage fluid around living tissue.

The mission builds on established laboratory work, including a 2025 paper in PNAS introducing miBrain. However, the new flight is an experiment in progress. Its findings have yet to establish how these particular models respond to space.

Retired veteran here. I was a PR in the navy for 5 years. I literally live where all the aerospace companies are in SoCal and near Edwards Air Force base and I’ve been applying not only for the aircrew survival equipment jobs, but also for QA or logistics and anything else all these companies are hiring for, only to get denied the position.

I have experience in O level for the MH60R and I’ve worked in I level at the fleet readiness center and was an EGRESS instructor as well- I pretty much am a good fit for the PR jobs they’ve been posting. I don’t know why they keep denying me when I have experience and loved what I did and I live extremely close.

Do I have to have a bubbly personality or what? I’m pretty reserved and just want to focus on work and safety is important to me which I emphasize in the interviews I’ve had… I’m so defeated. I don’t have a degree and just want to do what I did in the navy as a civilian if I can.

Northrop, Lockheed, general atomics etc has all said they’re moving forward with other candidates. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

This is more of a vent and I’d also like to ask if anything else is worth pursuing in the aerospace industry. I’m not good with math at all so this is why PR was perfect for me in the navy (if I’m being honest)

i wanna do guidance nav & control after college but i really doubt if a whole CS degree is worth it over getting better foundations in AE. i very much could be wrong which is why im asking here

Hi guys i have recently applied to Rolls-Royces graduate program and completed their online assessment and received this email yesterday and was wondering what to expect next?