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GNC Engineer
2021-04-07 16:14:16| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Astroscale is seeking to employ an experienced and motivated GNC Engineer at our facility based in Harwell, UK. This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic and rapidly growing company seeking to make a positive contribution to the growing problem of orbital debris that endangers mankinds continued use of space as an asset. This role will allow the right candidate to shape solutions for our missions. Whilst the candidate will primarily work in the UK, they will interact extensively with a larger team in Astroscales Japan Office and may be required to travel to Tokyo as needed in support of Astroscale projects and operations. Responsibilities Contribute to Guidance, Navigation and Control systems and design activities for Astroscale missions derive and design to AOCS Attitude Orbit Control SystemGNC Guidance, Navigation, and Control subsystem requirements. Support development of GNC hardware architecture, tradeoff analysis of hardware towards an overall GNC hardware solution. Design, optimisation and test of GNC algorithms e.g. navigation filters, guidance strategies and controllers. Design of GNC simulator modelsfunctionalities. Contribute to system level activities, such as developing mission CONOPS Concept of Operations, defining FMECA Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis and FDIR FaultFailure Detection, Isolation, and Recovery processes and design, system test and verification activities. Contribute to current developmentfocussed GNC activities as well as future productionfocussed GNC activities e.g. QA Quality Assurance processes. Essential Skills Diploma bachelor or masters degree in aerospace engineering or another relevant engineeringscience discipline. Experience with computer languages commonly used for aerospace algorithm simulations e.g. MATLABSimulink and Python. GNC algorithm design e.g. navigation filters, guidance strategies andor controllers. Experience designing faulttolerant GNC systems e.g. faulttolerant algorithm software design, RPO Rendezvous Proximity Operations fault detection etc. Experience of GNC Hardware AIT Assembly, Integration and Test. Can work both autonomously with initiative, and collaboratively as part of the wider GNCproject groups. Can strike a good balance between a creative approach to Engineering and being able to deliver on time to business requirements. Desired Skills Knowledge and experience of GNC rendezvous and pose estimation sensors and methods. Experience of Microsatellite 100200kg GNC design. Experience of onorbit GNC analysis, debug and refinement. Experience of DesignforTest methodologies. Experience of satellite trajectory design and analysis e.g. passively safe trajectories, abort manoeuvres and collision avoidance manoeuvres. Practical working knowledge of digital electronics relevant to a GNC system communications protocols, satellite Command Data Handling, digital integration to enable HardwareintheLoop Testing etc. Knowledge of missions concerning active debris removal or RPO RemoveDebris, CleanSpace ESA projects e.g. e.DeOrbit, DEOS, ATV, ETS7, DARPA Express. Location Astroscale UK Harwell, with occasional travelling to Astroscale Japan Tokyo About Astroscale Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to onorbit servicing across all orbits. Founded in 2013, Astroscale is developing innovative and scalable solutions across the spectrum of onorbit servicing missions, including life extension, insitu space situational awareness, endoflife services, and active debris removal, to create sustainable space systems and mitigate the growing and hazardous buildup of debris in space. Astroscale is also defining business cases and working with government and commercial stakeholders to develop norms, regulations, and incentives for the responsible use of space. Headquartered in Japan, Astroscale has an international presence with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, and Singapore. Astroscale is a rapidly expanding venture company, working to advance safe and stable growth in space and solve a growing environmental concern. End of Life Services by Astroscaledemonstration ELSAd, the companys first onorbit demonstration of debris capture and removal, launched in March 2021.
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