{"id":73781,"date":"2015-07-10T00:57:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/generation-next-ben-boyes-airbus\/"},"modified":"2015-07-10T00:57:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:57:22","slug":"generation-next-ben-boyes-airbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/generation-next-ben-boyes-airbus\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation Next: Ben Boyes, Airbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Boyes, deputy engineering manager for the ExoMars Rover Vehicle Project, Earth Observation, Navigation &amp; Science Space Systems at Airbus, is working on shaping the Mars Rover Project, a robotic vehicle that will be used to gather information on the red planet. He says there is \u201cnothing quite like it,\u201d and that the problems they are trying to solve are based on a whole different set of parameters. \u201cThe hardware you build is going up into the space, to different planets; to places no man-made item, let alone person, has ever been, so you are really pushing the boundaries of exploration. It is incredibly motivating,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Placeholder alt text\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/marquee-test-akiaisur2rgicbmpehea\/nmIbOPW8TfOyuaokaXtW_FullSizeRender.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Boyes, like other young engineers we have interviewed, says his generation has \u201can impatience, a restlessness\u201d to get things done quicker in the space industry. \u201cThere is not this perception that you have a single career for life. For example, new graduates are more interested in combining engineering with management, and have higher \u2014 perhaps sometimes unrealistic even \u2014 career expectations,\u201d he adds. \u201cI also think that industries with projects that last 10 to 15 years are on the way out. I think we are certainly seeing this within the space industry; we are seeing an evolution away from the long, time-consuming, expensive-running, and complicated institutional projects and moving to more agile, commercial and quicker projects in terms of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/vv1xR8ERftX3mqxJskA1_VS_07_080115_Cover_DGTL_p01-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 120px; height: auto;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/vv1xR8ERftX3mqxJskA1_VS_07_080115_Cover_DGTL_p01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/vv1xR8ERftX3mqxJskA1_VS_07_080115_Cover_DGTL_p01-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/vv1xR8ERftX3mqxJskA1_VS_07_080115_Cover_DGTL_p01-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/vv1xR8ERftX3mqxJskA1_VS_07_080115_Cover_DGTL_p01.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"fs-5 mt-0\">Explore the July\/August 2015 Issue<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mb-0 fs-smaller text-balance\">Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<button class=\"btn btn-primary\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"offcanvas\" data-bs-target=\"#offcanvasMENU\" aria-controls=\"offcanvasExample\" aria-label=\"button\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tView More <i class=\"bi bi-arrow-right-circle\"><\/i><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/button><\/p>\n<p>However, more needs to be done to attract young talent to the space industry. Boyes himself is part a U.K. government campaign called \u201cYour Life\u201d to turn around the perception of 14 to 16 year olds, especially girls, from shying away from key STEM subjects like Math and Physics, because they think they limit their careers rather than give them extra opportunities. Boyes says this is a grassroots problem, and that there is a perception that engineering isn\u2019t a professional career, driven by a number of misunderstandings on what the term engineering means. \u201cAll of these barriers are impacting not just the satellite companies but all tech companies, including the Googles,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>But Boyes is optimistic and believes things are changing for the better, although he concedes that the United Kingdom could be doing more. \u201cNobody realizes that we build 25 percent of the world\u2019s telecoms satellites here, or that we are involved in so many space\/science missions with the European Space Agency, and collaborate regularly with NASA. I think there it is definitely an awareness issue, but it is improving a lot,\u201d he says. \u201cTen years ago, when I joined the company and said I worked at Astrium, very few people had heard of it. During the recent economic downturn, the U.K. space industry has kept on growing, and all of a sudden the government is talking about it in the U.K. budget and suddenly space is much more current, and people are getting that awareness. So, things are improving significantly. 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