Telespazio VEGA Deutschland is a well-established consulting, technology and engineering services business. Over the past 30 years, we have built up a first-class reputation in high-technology markets, where quality and reliability are essential. Our roots are in the Space market and the experience we have developed there brings benefits to our other core markets of Aviation and Defence.
Telespazio VEGA Deutschland was created in early September 2012 when Telespazio Deutschland and VEGA Space GmbH merged into one company. These changes were made in order to serve the needs of our markets better and provide more integrated services to our clients worldwide.
Telespazio VEGA Deutschland is the first choice aerospace company for IT and engineering solutions and services. With more than 350 employees in Germany we shape the future of aerospace together and beyond. Our staff play a key role in determining our success through their qualifications, motivation, enthusiasm, different cultural backgrounds and their sense of teamwork.
We are passionate about delivering exciting Space Programs for and with our customers. Through our large frame contracts with ESOC, EUMETSAT and DLR, we offer a future-oriented and trusting work environment, multi-cultural teams, as well as challenging jobs on space missions for graduates up until experienced professionals.
This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer to work in the domain of the ESA Mission Analysis Section. The position is based in ESOC, in Darmstadt with a start from 01.09.2017.
Deadline for submission is 24th of April 2017.
‘Mission analysis’ is the analysis of satellite orbits to determine how best to achieve the objectives of a space mission. This is performed during the entire definition, development and preparation phases of each project. The primary areas of responsibility for this position are for Near Earth Missions but the service provider may be requested to assume the responsibility and perform activities for other missions’ types.
Responsibilities/Duties
• Trajectory design, including selection of operational orbit, orbit maintenance strategy, lifetime analysis, end-of-life disposal, transfer orbit design, launcher injection orbit selection and performance analysis, launch window analysis, and deterministic Delta-V
• Navigation analysis, including orbit determination and correction strategy, accuracy analysis and stochastic Delta-V
• Product generation including Delta-V budget, ground station coverage, communication angles, and distances, eclipses, science merit
• Mission Analysis tools development and maintenance, including generic tools, mission specific tools, and common Mission Analysis and Flight Dynamics tools
• Project support, including interfacing with project, industrial team, operations and Flight Dynamics team, participation in project reviews, contribution to system trade-offs, consultancy to project
• Support to CDF studies
• Participation in critical Flight Dynamics operations
Qualifications/Experience
• Completed university degree in mathematics, physics, astronomy or equivalent with high grades
• Fluency in English, both in speech and writing
Essential Skills
• Mission Analysis, celestial mechanics, and related data processing
• Solutions development for technical (mathematical and dynamical) problems in cooperation with customers and other experts
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Shell scripting languages, Python, Fortran, C++, Matlab
• Coordination and interaction with other service providers in Mission Analysis and other fields
• Ability to work independently
Desirable Skills
• Familiarity with the ESOC environment
• Familiarity/experience with Mission Analysis engineering tasks, the PC/Linux environment, network services and protocols and system administration
• Ability to multi-task efficiently; working on multiple activities; multiple missions simultaneously
Your Benefits of joining us
By joining the Telespazio family, we offer you a competitive salary in a sustainable work environment, flexible working time models, diverse advancement and training possibilities for technical, language and soft skills, a generous holiday package as well as a company pension scheme. We support you with your relocation. Through our wide network, we can also support your partner in finding a job at your new work location.
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| Education Backgrounds: |
Aerospace Engineering Physics Software Engineering |
| Specialties: |
Aerospace Astronomy Big Data Computer Networks Control systems |
| Education Level: |
Undergraduate (Bachelors) Postgraduate (Masters) |
| Experience: |
10 - 15 years 2 - 5 years 5 - 10 Years |
| Languages spoken: |
English |
| Job Location: | Darmstadt , Germany |
| Keywords: | Mission analysis Software engineer (Shell, Python, Fortran, C++, Matlab) ESA ESOC Satellite Satellite orbit Space mission New earth mission Trajectory design Astronomy Orbit Satellite launch Satellite navigation Flight dynamics Celestial mechanics Related |
Type: Job
Deadline: 20th April 2017
Job reference (ID): 11576
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