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United flight from Seattle slides off runway in Chicago

2015-12-30 18:00:36| Airlines - Topix.net

The Federal Aviation Administration says a flight from Seattle to Chicago slid off the runway at O'Hare International Airport. United Airlines spokesman Charles Hobart says there were no injuries.

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United Airlines flight veers off runway at O'Hare

2015-12-30 18:00:35| Airlines - Topix.net

Temperatures were in the upper 20s on Wednesday morning and expected to stay fairly steady throughout the day with a high of about 30 degrees, said National Weather Service meteorologist Ben Deubelbeiss. A band of snow was falling across portions of the Chicago area in the morning, including briefly over O'Hare, he said.

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VIDEO: Are Santas reindeer healthy for Christmas flight?

2015-12-23 23:05:11| Beef

Veterinarians play an important role in maintaining the health of all animals, including Santas reindeer. Watch this video and share on social media. Merry Christmas! BEEF Daily read more

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Flight Dynamics Engineer

2015-12-23 16:03:30| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus Group formed by combining the business activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military. The new division is Europes number one defence and space enterprise, the second largest space business worldwide and among the top ten global defence enterprises. It employs some 40,000 employees generating revenues of approximately 14 billion per year. A vacancy for a Flight Dynamics Engineer has arisen within Airbus Defence Space in Hawthorn. You will perform flight dynamics activities as directed by the Flight Dynamics Manager for the constellation of spacecraft controlled by Airbus Defence and Space. The successful candidate will be subject to UK National Security Clearance in order to undertake related work in accordance with business needs. Your main tasks and responsibilities will include Orbit determination, including Analysis of required ranging campaigns, Scheduling of ranging activities, Analysis of orbit determination performance, Formulation of recommendation for orbit determination improvement. Manoeuvre planning, including Planning of manoeuvres and management of manoeuvre schedule taking into account operational constraints, Generation of manoeuvre products, Manoeuvre assessment including propellant accounting and thruster performance, Generation of drift orbit entry and station acquisition manoeuvres with associated predictions products for spacecraft relocation, Generation of graveyard manoeuvres with associated predictions products for retirement of inservice spacecraft that have reached end of life. Plan platform specific flight dynamics operations. Generation of routine onstation predictions. Propellant Estimation. Space situational awareness activities Conjunction analysis, Interference analysis, Space weather. Provide oncall support to Spacecraft Operations for SKYNET 5 ESR recovery and SCU reset. Oncall support is provided on a roster basis, only one member of the Flight Dynamics Team will be oncall at any time. Liaise with external agencies with regard to collocation of spacecraft including coordination of manoeuvres, generation of separation predications, and data exchange. Maintain operational documentation. Dissemination of ephemeris data. Production of master daily schedule and associated task sheets. Production of weekly schedule. Routine inspection of spacecraft status and log books. Produce reports required by the Space Directorate and customer including Weekly spacecraft report, Quarterly spacecraft report SKYNET 4 only, Equinox report SKYNET 4 only, Flight dynamics inputs for SKYNET 5 annual report. The Flight Dynamics Engineer may also be asked to perform the following functions as and when the opportunity arises Participate on the Launch and Early Orbit Phase LEOP of new Paradigm spacecraft. Flight Dynamics software development. We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience Degree or higher in Physics, Maths or related subject with working background in the Space Industry including Satellite Flight Dynamics or AOCS. Previous experience of SKYNET 4 or E3000 Flight Dynamics would be desirable. Previous LEOP experience would be appreciated. Experience of Matlab and Simulink, Mathematical modelling. Good computer programming skills, Software development in C or C. Good verbal and written communication skills. Excellent analytical skills. Good presentation skills. Please apply for this vacancy on line at our careers site www.jobs.airbusgroup.com with your CV attached. To apply click here

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Elon Musk's SpaceX returns to flight and pulls off dramatic, historic landing

2015-12-22 07:41:48| IT Services - Topix.net

Elon Musk 's SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket at its landing pad here on Monday evening in its first flight since its rocket exploded six months ago. The historic landing, the first time a rocket launched a payload into orbit and then returned safely to Earth, was cheered as a sign that SpaceX, the darling of the commercial space industry, has its momentum back.

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