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Specialties inside the field

• Propulsion

  Jet engines and rocket motors. The hardest and best paid corner.

• Aerodynamics

  Airflow, wind tunnels and simulation. Heavy on computation.

• Structures and materials

  Making something strong enough and light enough at the same time.

• Guidance, navigation and control

  Keeping the vehicle pointed where it should be. Very mathematical.

• Test engineering

  Instrumenting hardware and breaking it on purpose. Hands on, often at remote ranges.