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NASA orders second manned ISS mission from SpaceX

2016-08-02 17:25:04| Extremetech

That makes four total manned flights planned for the US commercial crew program.

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Mission Analysis and Payload Planning System Engineer

2016-08-01 19:06:16| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

The Serco Group is a FTSE 250 corporation with over 70,000 staff in 30 countries. Our strategy is to be a superb provider of public services, by being the best managed business in our sector. We are a focused business to government B2G business, specialising across five sectors Defence, Justice Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services. Sercos space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions such as the European Commission, EUMETSAT or the European Space Agency where we are the largest onsite service provider with ca. 300 staff. For our activities in ESAC, we are currently looking for a Mission Analysis and Payload Planning System Engineer. Main responsibilities You will interact freely with any member of the following institutions involved in science operations work All missions science operations centres and science ground segments teams External elements of the science ground segments if required, under the supervision of the ESA internal part of the science ground segments ESAC Computer Support Group MAPPS TEC team at ESTEC Mission Planning Working groups internal or external as requested. Furthermore you will have the following tasks and responsibilities System engineering and architectural design activities, including operating plans and procedures Designing, developing, implementing, testing, deploying, operating and maintaining software tools and systems, e.g. Observation proposal handling, mission planning and quicklook systems, parts of which may be distributed to the community User support tools Interactive analysis and calibration systems, to be distributed as needed to the community for data reduction and analysis Data processing pipelines Contribute to the definition of Interface Control Documents ICDs and file interchange formats with external coordination units Contribute to the maintenance of the overall system, including configuration control and versioning Organise and perform end to end system testing with the scientific communities Scientific data archives and interfacing these to the virtual observatory Scientific and technical WWW systems to support Science Operations Centre, Science Ground Segment and the scientific community. Implementation of new MAPPS features, in the area of the Graphical User Interface, and in backend processing software Building compelling, interactive visualizations timelines, maps, geometrical data, statistics, etc.. and user interfaces Participate in all phases of development specification, design, development, bug fixing, testing, and documentation according to the ESA software engineering processes. Ideal candidate Requirements You should bring a Master Degree in a relevant discipline, at least 4 years of working experience and the following Extensive experience with objectoriented programming and relative design patterns Recent experience in C development 2 years Extensive experience in designing and producing meaningful, effective interactive customized data visualization and Graphical User Interfaces GUI Experience in language tools for memory debugging, memory leak detection and profiling General knowledge on commonly used bug reporting systems e.g. JIRA and software versioning systems e.g. GIT Experience with the Windows and Linux operating systems Knowledge is required in system and software engineering practices Knowledge in the corresponding software development language, database systems Knowledge is required in ECSS standards for software development. The following would be considered as an advantage Experience in other programming languages, such as Java, C, Python Experience in developing web applications Experience with the Qt toolkit or any comparable C based GUI toolkits Knowledge of spacecraft systems engineering Experience in modelling and simulation of spacecraft systems. Application procedure Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Spain or be EU EEA nationals. Due to the high interest these roles generate, Serco reserves the right to commence, alter or conclude the recruitment process prior to the closing date. If shortlisted, a recruiter will contact you directly. If not, your application will remain in our database and can be matched against future openings. You can also login at any time to apply to additional positions. If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply via the relevant link available in Serco Europes Careers Hub httpscareershub.serco.eu

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Porsche ramping up hiring for Mission E; leveraging the 919 Hybrid

2016-07-26 20:56:05| Green Car Congress

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Galileo Ground Mission Segment Engineer

2016-07-26 19:07:18| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

The Serco Group is a FTSE 250 corporation with over 70,000 staff in 30 countries. Our strategy is to be a superb provider of public services, by being the best managed business in our sector. We are a focused business to government B2G business, specialising across five sectors Defence, Justice Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services. Sercos space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions such as the European Commission, EUMETSAT or the European Space Agency where we are the largest onsite service provider with ca. 300 staff. For our activities in ESTEC, we are currently looking for a Galileo Ground Mission Segment Engineer. Main responsibilities The Position is mainly working on GALILEO Ground Segment processing facilities, in a role supporting the GALILEO Ground Mission Segment GMS team in particular, the detailed specific tasks include Participation to GMS related Integration, Verification and Qualification IVQ activities, such as test cases definition and preparation, formal tests witnessing, Verification Credit collection at Element and Segment level, anomalies followup at Element, Segment and System level Followup of the procurement actions related to the implementation of a set of GMS Elements, being the Technical Officer for elements like Message Generation Facility MGF, the Uplink Local Station ULS, and the Service Product Facility SPF including support to the monitoring of industrial contracts for the developments and generating and reviewing relevant documentation such technical requirements Evaluation of GMS design, with a specific focus on GMS Operations and Operability Improvements, Galileo Services provision, Online and Offline Monitoring, System Reporting, Technical Monitoring Control of GMS Assets, Mission Planning, Mission Support, Training and Maintenance evolutions of the GMS architecture and design Support to GMS engineering activities, as well as Galileo System level engineering activities, such as requirement engineering, change management and baseline evolutions DCPsDCNs, assessment of contractors RFDsRFWs Contribution to GMS and System reviews. Ideal candidate Requirements You should bring a University degree MSc minimum in telecommunications and signal processing or electronic engineering, at least 4 years of relevant working experience and the following Specific knowledge in the design and testing of Radio Navigation systems and equipment Strong knowledge on the design of satellite navigation systems, ranging and positioning techniques, RF, signal processing techniques, and GNSS security and processing facilities Have several years of experience relevant with the GNSS and GALILEO systems and equipment and have good knowledge of Radio Navigation processing, simulation and testing systems Be specialist in the implementation, maintenance and operation of complex Radio Navigation processing, simulation and test facilities for spacecraft, aircraft, maritime and land mobile applications Eligible for security clearance from their national security administration. Application procedure Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for the Netherlands or be EU EEA nationals. Due to the high interest these roles generate, Serco reserves the right to commence, alter or conclude the recruitment process prior to the closing date. If shortlisted, a recruiter will contact you directly. If not, your application will remain in our database and can be matched against future openings. You can also login at any time to apply to additional positions. If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply via the relevant link available in Serco Europes Careers Hub httpscareershub.serco.eu

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Software Engineer for Copernicus Mission Control Applications

2016-07-20 16:06:09| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Telespazio VEGA Deutschland has been supporting the European Space Industry for over 30 years, including ESA, DLR, EUMETSAT and CNES. This is a challenging opportunity for a Software Engineer with minimum 35 years experience in complex 247 applications with Java and webbased deployment. This position is based on customer site in EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany. The position is unlimited and fulltime and will start in September 2016. Submission deadline for applicants is 23rd of August 2016. ResponsibilitiesDuties The key person will provide hisher prime support to the Mission Control Applications and Tools Team and heshe will support Maintenance of the EUMETSAT CopernicusSentinel3 Mission Control Applications and MMEMon tools instantiation for Sentinel3 Requirements specification, design, development implementation, integration and verification of extensions including future obsolesces reengineering of Sentinel3 mission control applications and tools and MME Support to users in investigation andor handling in the operational usage of the Sentinel3 mission control applications and tools and MME Provide MCAT with strong software technologies expertise in the area of web applications QualificationsExperience A university degree in either Aerospace, or ITSoftware disciplines electronics, physics, computing, process control, ground station operations, would be an advantage. Essential Skills Fluency in English Experience in the full cycle of development and maintenance of software application following formal software engineering processes Experience in the definition of software requirements, architectural design, implementation and maintenance of 247 applications based on java technologies within web based deployment Experience in IVV integration, verification and validation activities following formal engineering processes. This includes requirement verification, system and subsystem integration, generation of test plan and test procedures, nonregression testing, generation of test data, generation of test tools, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports and anomaly tracking. Experience in designing and implementing backend software applications using Servlet containers e.g. Tomcat, JBoss and Java programming languages for UNIXLinux operating systems Experience in designing and implement web client applications using GWT and HTML 5 technologies javascript, CSS, HTML and javascript frameworks Experience in designing and implementing applications based on Messaging Oriented Middleware and using ActiveMQ andor ZeroMQ as message brokers Experience in designing and developing software applications using interfaces to relational database management systems RDBMS and experience with data model design for RDBMS. Desirable Skills Experience in being the technical point of contact for contractors working at offsite premises and responsible for application software evolution and maintenance. Experience in using Unified Modelling Language UML for software design. XML processing schema design, validation, parser libraries, transformation XSLT and XPath. Experience using tools for the automation of software testing. Benefits Competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package including 30 days holiday, generous training possibilities, Telespazio VEGA Deutschland pension scheme is offered to the successful candidate. Security In line with Asylum Immigration Legislation, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the EU. Furthermore, in view of the nature of the work the company is in, all potential employees will undergo stringent reference and identity checks. Application You are looking for a challenging position in a very interesting, international environment? Then you should send your application preferrably online with your availability details and salary expectations.

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