Senior Mission Analysis Engineer

Responsibilities

• Trajectory design. Support lunar mission design through trajectory analysis and optimization, generating launch windows while accounting for landing site, orbital, and mission constraints.

• Covariance analysis. Optimize correction maneuvers by assessing and mitigating the impact of navigation and execution uncertainties.

• Software engineering. Design, develop, and maintain in-house astrodynamics libraries to support mission analysis, trajectory design, and flight dynamics activities.

• Requirements management. Contribute to the definition, traceability, verification, and validation of mission requirements.

• Processes refinement. Identify inefficiencies in existing processes and develop improvements to enhance efficiency, quality, and reliability.

• Operations. Support Flight Dynamics critical operations with Orbit Determination and Maneuver Planning for ispace’s lunar missions on a 24/7 environment.

Required skills

• 5+ years of experience on Mission Analysis in in cis-lunar or deep space missions.

• Professional experience with Orbital Mechanics libraries and tools: GMAT, STK, MONTE, Orekit, Godot or similar.

• Professional software development experience: continuous maintenance, sprint-based delivery, testing activities, version control, dockerized environments.

• Familiarity with at least one of the following concepts:

  • Circular Restricted 3-Body Problem (CR3BP)

  • Covariance analysis

  • Lambert Transfer

  • B-plane targeting

Preferred skills

• Flight Dynamics development and/or operations.

• Knowledge about cislunar environment: ELFO, NRLO, Halo, etc.

• Experience interfacing launch providers (e.g. Space-X, ULA, Ariane, MHI, Rocket Lab).

• Experience using MONTE library.