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Software snag silences Science Guys solar sail spacecraft
2015-05-29 21:18:40| Extremetech
The new solar sail demonstration vehicle, LightSail-A, has lost communication with Earth due to a software glitch. Engineers have not been able to reset the device, but are hoping a cosmic ray will hit the craft, rebooting the electronics.
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System and Software Engineering for Science Operations JUICE MEX ExoMars 2016
2015-05-04 10:05:17| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
WHO ARE WE? GMV www.gmv.com is a privately owned technological enterprise group with an international presence employing more than 1.100 staff. Founded in 1984, GMV mainly operates in eight large sectors for both public and private organizations Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications and Information Technologies. GMV currently runs eight work centers in Spain Tres Cantos Madrid headquarters, Boecillo Valladolid, Seville, Barcelona, Valencia, Tenerife, Len, Zaragoza and also work centers in Lisbon Portugal, Rockville Maryland, USA, Darmstadt Germany, Warsaw Poland, Bucharest Romania, Malaysia, Toulouse France and New Delhi India. We recruit and hire excellent engineers, and encourage innovation, technical excellence and continuing education. Our engineers regularly present papers at technical conferences, continue their education more than 85 have a masters degree, and we reinvest more than 12 of budget in IRD projects. This striving for excellence, innovation and flexibility is a major part of our culture. We provide very competitive compensation, attractive benefits, and a great work environment with lots of opportunities for professional growth. JOB DESCRIPTION Responsibilities Duties Tasks Science Ground Segment Coordination Tasks Coordination of Science Ground Segment operational activities and overall organization and scheduling of routine planning processes. Coordination of scientific activities and specific interfaces with Principal Investigator teams, Project Scientist and Science Working Team Coordination of engineering activities and interfaces with the Mission Operations Centre and ESA DTEC MAPPS development team. Coordination and preparation of scientific and operational meetings, including the Science Operations Working Group, Science Working Team and Mission Operations and Harmonization of Interfaces Meetings, in close collaboration with the Development or Mission Manager and the Project Scientist. Routine Science Operation Support Tasks Support to routine Long Term Planning LTP activities through scientific and engineering analysis of future planning seasons, in order to identify and study scientific observation campaigns and operationally constrained seasons. Support to routine Medium Term Planning MTP activities, coordinating the harmonization of pointing and instrument observation timelines in MTP cycles covering 4 weeks. Support to routine Short Term Planning STP activities, including the generation of detailed instrument command sequences and resource allocation, coordinating the detailed iterations with experiment teams. And also tasks related to System Engineering Support Science Implementation Analysis System Requirements Analysis Baseline System Design Critical System Design Preliminary System Implementation System Implementation System Validation and Verification Qualifications and Required knowledge The service to be provided requires that the personnel should possess a university education PhD or MSc in a scientific or technical subject and relevant professional experience in line with the requirements of the job class. In particular, the following experience is required for the service provider personnel Experience in science operations for solar system missions Experience in scientific analysis of planetary spectral and imaging data Experience in remote sensing of planetary surfaces and atmosphere Experience in data generation and calibration of planetary data Experience in data handling and archiving following Planetary Data System standards Experience in payload modeling, simulation and commanding Experience with planetary geometry and ancillary information tools SPICE Experience with planetary science operation tools MAPPS, EPS, etc Experience with software programming and scripting languages IDL, shellscript, DOS bash, etc WHAT DO WE OFFER? As soon as they join the organization our professionals are given the chance to tackle technological challenges in an innovative environment, to work in multidisciplinary teams and deal directly with clients. This helps them to mature quickly as professionals. We provide continual topup training to keep our career professionals perfectly abreast of all technologies used. We offer a permanent contract and attractive package including a highly competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package. If you would like to work in an interesting, fun, fastpaced, challenging, diverse and global company which is growing rapidly, please send us your resume to jobsgmv.com For more information about GMV, please visit our website at www.gmv.com
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System and Software Engineering for Science Operations SOE
2015-04-17 13:04:51| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
WHO ARE WE? GMV www.gmv.com is a privately owned technological enterprise group with an international presence employing more than 1.100 staff. Founded in 1984, GMV mainly operates in eight large sectors for both public and private organizations Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications and Information Technologies. GMV currently runs eight work centers in Spain Tres Cantos Madrid headquarters, Boecillo Valladolid, Seville, Barcelona, Valencia, Tenerife, Len, Zaragoza and also work centers in Lisbon Portugal, Rockville Maryland, USA, Darmstadt Germany, Warsaw Poland, Bucharest Romania, Malaysia, Toulouse France and New Delhi India. We recruit and hire excellent engineers, and encourage innovation, technical excellence and continuing education. Our engineers regularly present papers at technical conferences, continue their education more than 85 have a masters degree, and we reinvest more than 12 of budget in IRD projects. This striving for excellence, innovation and flexibility is a major part of our culture. We provide very competitive compensation, attractive benefits, and a great work environment with lots of opportunities for professional growth. JOB DESCRIPTION System and Software Engineering for Science Operations SOE This position is intended to provide a number of specialised services to support ESA in developing the Gaia missions Science Operations Centre at ESAC. ESAs Gaia mission is designed to create an accurate and complete astrometric catalogue which will serve for decades to come More than 1000 Million objects mostly stars in our Milky Way down to apparent magnitude 20 will be repeatedly observed from the second Lagrange point L2 during the satellites nominal lifetime of 5 years. Responsibilities Duties Tasks Generic Tasks native to Software Development and Maintenance Develop and maintain modules, applications and tools specific to product generation framework and quality control framework Ensure timely delivery of SW releases and relative increments Perform SW architectural design as needed Prepare and maintain SW documentation Develop and maintain unit test harnesses Report on progress and problem areas Participate in the Configuration Control Boards applicable to the development and operation of the software Followingup and tracking the correction and resolution of problem reports Implement approved software enhancement requests Qualifications Aerospace Engineer, Mathematician, Physicist or any related discipline. Required knowledge The service to be provided requires that the personnel should possess a university background in a scientific or technical subject and relevant professional experience of at least 5 years in software development. In particular, possess the following experience, knowledge and proficiency in ECSS standards for software development JDK 1.71.8 RMI Generics OO design Distributed processing Numerical programming in Java JUnit Eclipse Ant JDBC DBMS interaction Subversion Large Databasesdata processing 1TB WHAT DO WE OFFER? As soon as they join the organization our professionals are given the chance to tackle technological challenges in an innovative environment, to work in multidisciplinary teams and deal directly with clients. This helps them to mature quickly as professionals. We provide continual topup training to keep our career professionals perfectly abreast of all technologies used. We offer a permanent contract and attractive package including a highly competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package. If you would like to work in an interesting, fun, fastpaced, challenging, diverse and global company which is growing rapidly, please send us your resume to jobsgmv.com For more information about GMV, please visit our website at www.gmv.com
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Software Engineer for Science Operations
2015-04-16 12:05:11| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
HE Space is a successful international space company. For over 30 years, we have been supporting our customers with qualified experts in the field of engineering, science and administration. We are currently looking for a Software Engineer for Science Operations to support our customer in Spain. Software Engineer for Science Operations Key Tasks and Responsibilities As a member of the Gaia Science Operations Team, you will have the following responsibilities Develop and maintain modules, applications and tools specific to product generation framework and quality control framework Ensure timely delivery of SW releases and relative increments Perform SW architectural design as needed Prepare and maintain SW documentation Develop and maintain unit test harnesses Report on progress and problem areas Participate in the Configuration Control Boards applicable to the development and operation of the software Followingup and tracking the correction and resolution of problem reports Implement approved software enhancement requests. Skills Experience You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience A university degree in a scientific or technical related subject Several years of relevant professional experience in software development Experience, knowledge and proficiency in ECSS standards for software development JDK 1.71.8 RMI Generics OO design Distributed processing Numerical programming in Java JUnit Eclipse Ant JDBC DBMS interaction Subversion Large Databasesdata processing 1TB Fluency in English is mandatory knowledge of another European language is an advantage. This job is located near Madrid. We welcome applicants who are available from June 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter. If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send us your CV together with a letter of motivation both in English and in Word to Ms Elisa Manfreda at jobshespace.com, quoting job NLSC2585 before 03May15. An exciting and dynamic international working environment awaits you!
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System and Software Engineering for Science Operations Support to Science Operations Gaia
2015-04-15 15:05:16| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Great opportunity and salary conditions to work in ESAC The European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid, Spain with The Server Labs. The Server Labs, an European well established and leader software development and technology consultancy is now expanding its team at ESAC. We offer an excellent package, including highest salary, company benefits, extra holidays 30 days holidays plus public and local holidaysand health and dental medical insurance. Important Candidates must hold a European Passport and be willing to work in Spain Company Description The Server Labs is an European technology services company, leader in software engineering solutions and handson technology consulting, in areas such as Continuous integration and delivery, Devops, Cloud computing, Grid architectures and HPCBig data. We collaborate with our clients to obtain success, committed to innovation, enjoying what we do every day and growing with every challenge. The Server Labs works with different industries and business verticals. Within the Space industry, The Server Labs works with the European Space Agency ESA, with ESAC, near Madrid, with ESOC, in Darmstadt, near Frankfurt, with ESTEC, in Noorwijk near Amsterdam and with ESRIN, in Frascati. We provide specialists to ESA, but we also deliver services and successful projects to provide additional value in the technology initiatives led by ESA. By working with The Server Labs, you will be part of a multinational team in a fast growing technology company based in London, Madrid and Frankfurt. Please send your CV with cover letter to resumetheserverlabs.com before 04th of May 2015. Job Description System and Software Engineering for Science Operations Support to Science Operations Gaia This work package is intended to provide a number of specialised services to support ESA in developing the Gaia missions Science Operations Centre at ESAC. ESAs Gaia mission is designed to create an accurate and complete astrometric catalogue which will serve for decades to come More than 1000 Million objects mostly stars in our Milky Way down to apparent magnitude 20 will be repeatedly observed from the second Lagrange point L2 during the satellites nominal lifetime of 5 years. This will yield a raw data volume of about 100 TB 1 PB total from which each stars position, trigonometric parallax, and proper motion for a smaller subset also radial velocity will be determined to microarcsec accuracy typically 25 as for parallax at 15th magnitude. The data processing and catalogue creation is carried out by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium DPAC formed by around 400 individuals and six main data processing centres distributed across Europe. The Gaia SOC at ESAC is an integral part of DPAC and plays a key role in designing the overall system architecture and developing and operating parts of the Core Processing systems viz. Initial Data Treatment IDT, First Look FL, and the Astrometric Global Iterative Solution. ESAC will also form the hub for data exchange via the Main Database MDB. This MDB will form the input for all processing and will be augmented with the output of all processing to arrive at a new version. The production of processing software for Gaia will continue through operations to final catalogue production around 2019. The SOC maintains core software but also receives packages from external entities to be integrated and run in SOC. For any candidate experience in interacting with the science community would be an advantage. The selected candidate must be willing render the service in a team environment and to travel. Good interpersonal and communication skills are an advantage. The candidate should be comfortable in an international working environment and be fluent in written and spoken English, one of the official languages of ESA. Service Specific Tasks Generic Tasks native to Software Development and Maintenance Develop and maintain modules, applications and tools specific to product generation framework and quality control framework Ensure timely delivery of SW releases and relative increments Perform SW architectural design as needed Prepare and maintain SW documentation Develop and maintain unit test harnesses Report on progress and problem areas Participate in the Configuration Control Boards applicable to the development and operation of the software Followingup and tracking the correction and resolution of problem reports Implement approved software enhancement requests Output and Service Performance Monitoring ESA will formally define the service delivery in terms of delivery times, performance targets and similar measurable parameters Key Performance Indicators. This shall be agreed with the service provider and shall be assessed, and modified as needed, during regular progress meetings typically monthly. The service provider shall manage the service provision and provide ESA with the necessary data and corresponding evidence. The candidate shall be measured and assessed on the basis of Periodic software releases including at least annual major releases of the software, interleaved with minor versions when applicable System and Software engineering documentation i.e. Architectural and system design, software test plan and reports Software architecture, design documentation Software documentation interfacing to user as well as developer Software source and object code Software unit tests with an approved test coverage Timely and efficient resolution of issues data, software arising Definition of Interface Control Documents ICDs and file interchange formats with external coordination units Attendance in approved groups and meetings Participation in software integration, validation, product validation and verification campaigns Progress reports Interactions Free interaction is expected with all members of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium DPAC. Specific Qualification Requirements The service to be provided requires that the personnel should possess a university background in a scientific or technical subject and relevant professional experience of at least 5 years in software development. In particular, possess the following experience, knowledge and proficiency in o ECSS standards for software development o JDK 1.71.8 RMI Generics o OO design o Distributed processing o Numerical programming in Java o JUnit Eclipse Ant o JDBC DBMS interaction o Subversion o Large Databasesdata processing 1TB Conditions of contract Permanent position Excellent package with salary and bonus Benefits 30 days holidays plus public and local holidays, medical insurance, dental insurance, assistance with relocation if needed, laptop, smartphone, training. Please apply to this position Send CV to resumetheserverlabs.com and cover letter, with indication of Position ID TSLSRE107 Deadline 04th of May 2015 Location Madrid, Spain Support Start Date 1 June 2015 Support End Date 31 December 2016
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