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Propulsion, GNC Cryogenic Experts
2015-01-22 03:06:40| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Fantastic consulting opportunities available in New Zealand Competitive rates and relocation package available About Rocket Lab For most people the idea of a rocket launch brings up images from the Apollo era monstrous booster engines, groundshaking noise, and a behemoth of a machine slowly climbing against the grasp of Earths gravity. This iconic image, the one that transformed us into a spacegoing species, captures the power and strength of rockets. But it is not the image that will make space a commercial reality. Replace this image with the bustle of a high speed assembly line, where rocket boosters feed off a conveyor belt connecting to preencapsulated payload stages, rolling out on to the launch pad one after the other. This image, by contrast, is about speed and efficiency and what the Rocket Lab Electron orbital project is all about. Rocket Lab has created a legacy of excellence by developing innovative solutions to ambitious aerospace problems for the likes of DARPA and other technically demanding customers. Now fully funded by major Silicon Valley venture capital funds, Rocket Lab is focused on redefining how the world accesses space by building Electron a revolutionary launch system designed to meet the launch requirements of the rapidly expanding small satellite market. Known in the industry for rapidly developing cost effective solutions from the ground up, Rocket Lab believes in giving highly skilled engineers ownership of complex aerospace systems from start to finish. This ethos offers engineers the satisfaction of moving from the conceptualization and design phase through to hands on work building, testing and ultimately flying their creations. Rocket Lab also offers a unique opportunity for the worlds best and brightest engineers to work with a young team passionate about what they are doing while also enjoying the high standard of living New Zealand has to offer. Consulting Opportunities available now Propulsion Expert Play a defining part in making low cost and high frequency rocket launches a reality, through your role as Rocket Labs Propulsion Expert dedicated to working on the high performance development of the Rutherford Rocket Engine. The engine named Rutherford after the famous New Zealand scientist Ernest Rutherford, it is a LoxKerosene regenerative cooled pump fed engine that is the workhorse for Rocket Labs orbital launcher program. GNC Expert You will be given responsibility for the safe and controlled ascent of the Electron launch vehicle. The role will give you the opportunity to have a real impact in the success of the program with involvement in design, implementation, test and ultimately the execution of your design in orbital launches. Cryogenic Rocket Launch Vehicle Expert . As a senior orbital vehicle systems expert, you will have technical oversight on the design, testing and qualification of all onboard systems, including rocket tank pressurisation and filling subsystems, staging and control systems, procedures, etc. We need your expertise to make our launchrange the worlds shortest turningtime spaceport. To achieve this, we need stateoftheart ground infrastructure and organisation. Cryogenic Rocket Tank Systems Expert Taking this senior supervising position, you will oversee the design, testing and qualification of all cryogenic equipment, including liquid oxygen rocket tanks and pressurisation systems, propellant management devise, umbilical, valves and instrumentation. We need your expertise to make our launchrange the worlds shortest turningtime spaceport. To achieve this, we need stateoftheart ground infrastructure, including cryogenic LOX and fuel supply. To find out more about these consulting opportunities please email Tracey Orange at careersrocketlab.co.nz highlighting the experience and knowledge you are able to bring to Rocket Lab. We are particularly keen to hear from space professionals who are world leaders in their field of expertise.
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