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Do you want to fly the James Webb Space Telescope?
Aerospace Controls Systems (GNC/ACS) Engineer - #0002094
Job Category: Engineering
Requisition Number: SENIO03821
Posting Details
Posted: April 14, 2021
Full-Time
Locations Showing 1 location
Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Job Details
Description
Do you want to fly the James Webb Space Telescope?
Are you passionate about spaceflight? Can you break down complicated systems into basic electrical, mechanical, thermal, and software interactions? If you are a collaborative engineer excited to strengthen operations of NASA’s next flagship mission, then you want to join our team of 40 engineers preparing to fly the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Flight Operations Team is working in partnership with NASA Goddard, observatory contractor Northrop Grumman, and system vendors across the globe to create a premier JWST mission operations team. The team conducts real time operations, sustaining engineering, and operational product development/testing. As a flight systems engineer, you will oversee all aspects of operations for systems under your supervision. You will lead the response during anomalies, and work with other experts to assess problems and advance solutions.
The current opening is for a controls engineer on the Flight Systems Engineering (FSE) team. Initial focus will be the Attitude Control System (ACS). The ACS engineer ensures accurate spacecraft pointing using reaction wheels, gyros, and star trackers; and employs thrusters to unload reaction wheel momentum and maintain a proper orbit. As the ACS responsible engineer, you will learn all aspects of ACS operation and design to become one of the team’s foremost experts. Related systems include Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC), Propulsion, and Thermal Control.
Are you passionate about spaceflight? Can you break down complicated systems into basic electrical, mechanical, thermal, and software interactions? If you are a collaborative engineer excited to strengthen operations of NASA’s next flagship mission, then you want to join our team of 40 engineers preparing to fly the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Flight Operations Team is working in partnership with NASA Goddard, observatory contractor Northrop Grumman, and system vendors across the globe to create a premier JWST mission operations team. The team conducts real time operations, sustaining engineering, and operational product development/testing. As a flight systems engineer, you will oversee all aspects of operations for systems under your supervision. You will lead the response during anomalies, and work with other experts to assess problems and advance solutions.
The current opening is for a controls engineer on the Flight Systems Engineering (FSE) team. Initial focus will be the Attitude Control System (ACS). The ACS engineer ensures accurate spacecraft pointing using reaction wheels, gyros, and star trackers; and employs thrusters to unload reaction wheel momentum and maintain a proper orbit. As the ACS responsible engineer, you will learn all aspects of ACS operation and design to become one of the team’s foremost experts. Related systems include Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC), Propulsion, and Thermal Control.
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