2025 NASA Astrophysics Mission Design School Applications Open September 10, 2024 - November 4, 2024

2025 NASA Astrophysics Mission Design School Applications Due November 4, 2024

Offered by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, AMDS is a 3-month long career development experience to learn the development of a hypothesis-driven robotic space mission in a concurrent engineering environment while getting an in-depth, first-hand look at instrument design, mission life cycle, costs, schedule & the inherent trade-offs.

Engineering students close to completion of their MS degree, science & engineering, Doctoral candidates, recent PhDs, Postdocs, & Junior Faculty who are U.S. Citizens or Legal Permanent Residents are eligible. Applicants from diverse backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply; we highly value diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Session: Feb 6 - Apr 25

AMDS is roughly equivalent in workload to a rigorous 3-credit graduate course, requiring an average effort of 10-12 hours per week. Participants act as a space science mission team during the first 10 weeks of preparatory webinars, with the final culminating week mentored at JPL by JPL’s Advance Project Design Team or Team-X for refining the mission concept design & presenting it to a mock review board of NASA Center experts. 

Register here for AMDS Application Q&A Webinar on October 7, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:00 pm Pacific Time.

For more information and to apply, visit: https://go.nasa.gov/missiondesignschools