We are looking for a Flight Dynamics Engineer to join our team supporting satellite operations primarily at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.
The team supports a wide range of missions, including ESA Earth Observation missions, the Copernicus Sentinel satellites and interplanetary scientific missions.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Perform routine flight dynamics operations, including processing and monitoring telemetry, tracking and GNSS data.
- Perform orbit and attitude determination and prediction, including spacecraft state and AOCS parameter estimation.
- Support orbit manoeuvre optimisation, calibration and analysis, as well as the generation of spacecraft telecommand files.
- Perform spacecraft sensor calibration and validate flight dynamics calculations and results.
- Maintain, configure and further develop flight dynamics systems, software, tools and operational procedures.
- Support routine satellite operations, including participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
- Prepare and support special operations and mission-end campaigns, including technical studies, analyses and simulations.
- Support the preparation and launch of new missions through flight dynamics system setup, software validation, procedure development and simulations.
- Contribute to the maintenance, development, testing and validation of flight dynamics software.
- Collaborate closely with flight control teams and other technical teams within an international, multidisciplinary environment.