Spacecraft Operator

Spacecraft Operator

D-Orbit

Lisbon, Portugal

D-Orbit is looking for new colleagues to join our Flight Operations Team. As a Spacecraft Operator, you will be tasked with commanding and controlling D-Orbit's Fleet of carriers, reconnaissance, and Servicing Vessels. From D-Orbit's mission control centre, you will conduct end-to-end mission operations, from launch to final deorbiting. Activities like satellite tasking, telemetry dump and post-processing, contingency and ground operations, failure detections and recovery as long as operations planning and scheduling, and flight dynamics will be part of D-Orbit's Flight Operations team duties.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Command and control the company's proprietary satellites and their payloads
• On-board anomaly identification and resolution
• Orbital and attitude manoeuvres execution
• Flight and Ground Operations Procedures development and validation
• On-Board Control Procedures development and validation on Engineering Model
• Flight Operations activities planning, scheduling and execution throughout the missions
• Interfacing with all subsystems and software team to investigate and solve anomalies
• Interface with Flight Operations Segment developers to define user stories and requirements
• Support to ground systems and integration with space segment
• Authoring of Technical documents

Requirements:

• Knowledge of System Engineering, Orbital and Attitude Dynamics
• Knowledge of Spaceflight Operations
• Knowledge of Ground Segment concept
• Availability to work outside normal office working hours
• Experience with scripting languages (Python)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proactive attitude and ability to work in team and individually
• Experience with Operations Procedures writing and testing is a strong plus
• Knowledge of spaceflight dynamics and manoeuvre planning is a strong plus
• Familiarity with On-Board Control Procedures concepts is a plus
• Knowledge of code versioning tools (Git) is a plus
• Knowledge of flight dynamics tools (Orekit, GMAT, etc.) is a plus

Education:

• University degree (Bachelor's degree or equivalent), preferably in Aerospace/Space Engineering

Language:

• Full professional proficiency in the English language is mandatory.

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