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Americans Stumble On Basic Science Quiz
2016-07-20 07:34:00| Chemical Processing
Only 6% of American adults ace 12-question test.
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NASA science flights target melting Arctic Sea ice
2016-07-19 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: This summer, with sea ice across the Arctic Ocean shrinking to below-average levels, a NASA airborne survey of polar ice just completed its first flights. Its target: aquamarine pools of melt water on the ice surface that may be accelerating the overall sea ice retreat. NASA's Operation IceBridge completed the first research flight of its new 2016 Arctic summer campaign on July 13. The science flights, which continue through July 25, are collecting data on sea ice in a year following a record-warm...
SpaceX sends major science payload to the ISS
2016-07-19 18:30:45| Extremetech
SpaceX's latest mission, CRS-9, is off to a solid start, with some unlikely passengers: fungus from Chernobyl.
ExoMars Science Operations Engineer at ESAC
2016-07-19 12:05:28| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Aurora is an established supplier of skilled manpower to ESA and in particular at ESTEC and ESAC. Aurora has the opportunity to expand our support to ExoMars within ESAC. Overview The ExoMars 2016 mission is being implemented as part of the Robotic Exploration Programme of ESA. The Trace Gar Orbiter TGO will be the second ESA orbiter at Mars, in the footsteps of Mars Express. TGO will accommodate 4 scientific instruments for the detection of atmospheric trace gases, the study of their temporal and spatial evolution, the localisation of their source regions, and the mapping of subsurface water. The Science Ground Segment SGS for the ExoMars 2016 mission in its operational configuration will consist of the Science Operations Centre SOC, located at ESAC, Madrid, the Russian SOC NNK, located in Moscow, Russia and the PI facilities, at their respective institutions. The main uplink tasks of the EXOMARS SOC are as follows Science Operations Uplink Data Production Production of SGS components for operations SGS development, including participation in the continuing training of personnel to cover all SGS operational activities, the preparation of the training strategy and the SGS operations plan and the definition and testing of the SGS routine and contingency procedures. Science Operations covering Nominal Science Operations and Commissioning Operations. The services required to cover the above tasks are detailed below. Specific Service Tasks As part of the service the following main activities will have to be carried out. Science Operations Engineer Uplink Data Production Tasks Definitionupdate and population of the SOC configuration controlled operations data instrument models, observation definitions, observation geometries Definition and generation of the SOC operations plan and procedures Maintain the ICDs for the SOCPI team interface. Science Ground Segment SGS Development tasks Support Science Operations Centre SOC development Provision of feedback on system performance and characteristics to system engineer and the sw developer throughout the production period as part of the iterative development process Definition and development of test cases, pass and fail criteria Ensure readiness for Nominal Science Phase Operations Configuring Nominal SOC systems to any payload activities preceding Nominal Science Operations e.g. Mars Capture Orbit MCO activities Validating the initial set of nominal science phase operations data Rehearse the LTP, MTP and STP operations process with the PI teams Operations Rehearsals ORs. Science Operations Engineering tasks Operations Preparation Activities in support to Long Term Planning Scheduling of the PI teamdefined contributing observations Validation with MAPPS to generate an operationally feasible candidate plan Refining the LTP in response to modified LTP inputs Freezing the LTP baseline and committing to configuration control. Medium Term Planning Activities Kickoff MTP science planning by providing the PI teams with the baseline observation types Scheduling defined contributing observations within the MTP period Use of MAPPS to generate an operationally feasible candidate plan including pointing and resource allocations Refining the science plan directly with the PI teams at the observation level Gaining approval of the final MTP plan and freeze the MTP baseline Generating the pointing and payload request files, then deliver to the MOC. Short Term Planning Activities Generating a full set of instrument timelines ITLs for all four 1week commanding periods that correspond to the agreed MTP Working with the PI teams to update their commanding for each CP in turn Using MAPPS to check that any commanding updates respect the operations constraints and remain within the envelope established in the MTP Generating the payload operations requests and submitting them to the MOC 1 week before execution for each CP. Specific qualification requirements At least a graduate degree Masters or Ph.D. in a scientific or technical subject and relevant professional experience in line with the requirements of the job class. Relevant professional experience of at least 4 years You must be able to work in English Specific knowledge is required in the following areas Experience in uplink science operations for solar system missions Experience in payload modeling, simulation and commanding Experience with simulation software for spacecraft operations and observation geometry Experience with planetary science operation tools MAPPS, EPS, SPICE is considered a bonus. Good communication skills Good team working skills. Legal and Security Requirements All applicants must be legally allowed to work in Spain without the need to obtain a work visa. Only European Union citizens can be employed by Aurora in Spain. Applicants are required to provide a copy of their passport and degree certificate. Aurora will validate the Degree with the issuing University and provide evidence to ESA. In line with ESAs security requirements, prior to issuing a letter of employment the applicant shall provide to Aurora a recent official document declaring that they are of good conduct from the country where currently resident, and Aurora will validate your employment history. Location It is expected that the work will be performed at the ESAC, the European Space Astronomy Centre, at Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, Spain. Contract You will be registered for both social security and tax in Spain. The standard working hours are 40 per week. There are 12 public holidays and an additional 30 annual days holiday. In addition to public health services Aurora provides private medical insurance in Spain. Training to improve efficiency and provide strength for future career are of course included. Aurora can assist financially and provide recent experience information for relocation. To be considered for this Position Provide prior to 04 August 2016 a summary of why you are a good candidate for the position together with a complete and detailed Recruitment Form or your CV with a motivation letter to Mr. Davide Starnone, at email davide.starnoneaurora.nl quoting reference SCO125. Aurora will agree conditional employment terms and conditions with candidates before presenting their detailed technical proposal and candidates to ESA by 11 August 2016, 1300 hours.
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GAIA Science Operations Engineer at ESAC
2016-07-19 12:05:28| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Aurora is an established supplier of skilled manpower to ESA and in particular at ESTEC and ESAC. Aurora has the opportunity to expand our support to Gaia within ESAC. Overview ESAs Gaia mission is mapping to microarcsecond accuracy 1 of the stellar population of our galaxy that is around one thousand million objects down to apparent magnitude 20. Each object will be seen about 100 times over the five year mission. The data reduction of the 100 Terabytes of downlinked data is estimated to require a Petabyte storage system. The processing will be community wide effort performed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium DPAC in which ESAC plays a coordination role. The ESAC team in Gaias Science Operations Centre SOC is heavily involved in DPAC especially in the overall architecture and developing and operating key parts of the core processing systems. The core processing includes Initial Data Treatment IDT, First Look FL and the Astrometric Global Iterative Solution AGIS to solve for the many unknown astrometric parameters. The processing is distributed over five locations and ESAC forms the hub for data exchange via the Main Database MDB. The MDB forms 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. Specific Service Tasks As part of the service the following main activities will have to be carried out Contribute to procedure writing and the implementation of those procedures Follow procedures and operate Gaia SOC systems, predominantly the daily pipeline modules Test SOC systems for the daily processing of Gaia data Test SOC systems for the generation of payload operations request Further test and scale SOC products such as MDB Participate in the optimisation of software processing Gather operational constraints for software running at SOC Interact appropriately with and support the providers of all software SOC systems Interact appropriately with the users of DPCE data products and other Data Processing Centres Assist in automation of SOC procedures nominally Gaia SOC will only be manned normal working hours Contribute to the maintenance of the overall system, including configuration control and versioning Report on operational activities including the gathering and presentation of processing summary statistics. For any candidate experience in interacting with the science community would be an advantage. The selected contractors must be willing operate in a team environment and to travel. Good interpersonal and communication skills are an advantage. You should be comfortable in an international working environment, as it is expected that the selected contractor will interact freely with any member of the DPAC, as well as the general international community of astronomersusers via workshops and the helpdesk. Specific qualification requirements At least a graduate degree Masters or Ph.D. in a relevant subject area Relevant professional experience of at least 4 years You must be able to work in English Specific knowledge is required in the following areas Experience in operating large and distributed data processing systems Past astronomical instrument or spacecraft support with a major international space or groundbased observatory Support to the professional astronomical community for a spacebased mission Use of spacebased scientific data in support of science research Large Databasesdata processing 1TB ECSS standards for software development Knowledge of Subversion Knowledge of LaTeX Java programming language would be an asset Good communication skills Good team working skills. Legal and Security Requirements All applicants must be legally allowed to work in Spain without the need to obtain a work visa. Only European Union citizens can be employed by Aurora in Spain. Applicants are required to provide a copy of their passport and degree certificate. Aurora will validate the Degree with the issuing University and provide evidence to ESA. In line with ESAs security requirements, prior to issuing a letter of employment the applicant shall provide to Aurora a recent official document declaring that they are of good conduct from the country where currently resident, and Aurora will validate your employment history. Location It is expected that the work will be performed at the ESAC, the European Space Astronomy Centre, at Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, Spain. Contract You will be registered for both social security and tax in Spain. The standard working hours are 40 per week. There are 12 public holidays and an additional 30 annual days holiday. In addition to public health services Aurora provides private medical insurance in Spain. Training to improve efficiency and provide strength for future career are of course included. Aurora can assist financially and provide recent experience information for relocation. To be considered for this Position Provide prior to 04 August 2016 a summary of why you are a good candidate for the position together with a complete and detailed Recruitment Form or your CV with a motivation letter to Mr. Davide Starnone, at email davide.starnoneaurora.nl quoting reference SCO123. Aurora will agree conditional employment terms and conditions with candidates before presenting their detailed technical proposal and candidates to ESA by 11 August 2016, 1300 hours.
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