Job / Student Opportunities

 

The development of the Lunar Laser Ranger will be based partially on post-graduate student projects. Several projects are available for suitably qualified applicants.
  1. LLR Telescope control and pointing (digital control systems, software development, hardware interfacing, pointing model and system characterisation)       
  2. LLR Timing subsystem development (software development, hardware interfacing, subsystem slaving, time synchronisation, GPS control of Cesium clock, time distribution amplifiers, time system characterisation and monitoring)
  3. LLR subsystem integration (digital control systems, control computer interfacing, control computer software, realtime components, automated housekeeping scripts)
  4. Additional LLR subsystem component development/integration
    • LASER
    • detection
    • filtering (spectral, temporal, spatial, amplitude)
    • pulse conditioning
    • event timing
    • telescope (optics and mount)
  5. Documentation and design library
  6. Analysis software and scientific products

 

Students who are interested should have a background in subjects such as physics, electronics, mathematics, computer science, photonics, optics, astronomy, geodesy, digital control systems, hardware architectures, software development and related fields.

 

 

 

 

 

This page was last updated on 2008/05/07 04:48 -0700 by Ludwig Combrinck