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Johnson Matthey says GAIA consortium has delivered 20% boost in fuel cell power density

2021-07-28 13:55:49| Green Car Congress

Waterford Distillery claims Irish whiskey first with Organic Gaia 1.1

2020-11-12 11:48:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

Waterford Distillery has kicked off a new line of bottlings under its namesake Irish whiskey brand, with what it claims to be the first certified organic single malt produced in Ireland.

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Gaia Operations Engineer

2020-02-18 16:10:53| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

An exciting opportunity for two experienced scientists, or engineers, to work for Telespazio VEGA UK within the Gaia Team. This service will aim to support all critical efforts needed to help reach the ambitious scientific goals of the mission, and to develop and implement novel techniques to allow for new data inputs to align with existing infrastructure. Responsibilities Duties The successful candidates will be expected to have some involvement in the following tasks, though the extent to which these are allocated to each individual will vary based upon existing knowledge and experience Contribute to the SGS System Requirement Definition, and to definition of Science Planning Concept and relevant Mission Operations MOC and Instrument Teams. Contribute to procedure writing and the implementation of those procedures Follow procedures and operate Science Operations Centre SOC systems, and assist in automation of SOC procedures Day to day operations of scientific payloads, and data pipelines including reporting on processing, survey, and observation plan progress Oversight of science planning systems including Assistance in handling and planning announcement of opportunity responses Using the applicable software, develop a proposal for a schedule of observations. Support, where required, specific PI teams in the generation of their products MaintenanceBug reporting on all operations systems and validation of new releases before deployment. SOC software includes in house systems and third party products such as MAPPSEPS and SPICE. Monitoring of the operations execution, and identification of special coming events in the timeline. Report on operational activities including the gathering and presentation of processing summary statistics Coordinate and schedule on site operational support Handling operational interactions with various external institutes involved in the operations Cooperate with other projects on operational matters e.g. promote the exchange of information with missions that have various similarities The specific duties will include AGIS astrometric calibration and validation Support the definition of calibration models in AGIS Define, setup, and carry out AGIS test runs and analyse results Aid in the setting up of an automated validation pipeline needed to assess the scientific quality of a large number of trial runs AGISIDU interactionsDevelop an understanding of and monitor calibration development activities in IDU from an AGIS viewpoint, such as LSFPSF modelling Treatment of gated saturated observations Modelling of all calibration effects which are not tackled in AGIS and ensure they are truly disjoint AGISIDU Aid in the definition of data sets and procedures to test the proper functioning of the crucial AGISIDU loop Systematic Errors In close collaboration with AGIS experts, support investigations into the root causes of systematic errors in the astrometric solutions with the aim to suppress, ideally, eliminate them to the level needed to reach the endofmission goals For systematic errors which cannot be eliminated, aid in characterising, and documenting them in public releases VeryBrightStar processing Develop new or improve existing approaches to determine the centroid of highlysaturated astrometric observations to the highestpossible precision Apply these algorithms to all existing VBS data from Gaia Create socalled AstroElementaries from VBS observation data such that they can act as input to AGIS and the astrometry of these brightest stars be determined as part of a regular astrometric solution In close collaboration with the AGIS team, assess the quality of the VBS astrometry Support existing efforts within AGIS and IDU to improve the modellingcentroiding of highly saturated observations exploit synergies to VBS work if possible Qualifications Experience Masters University degree, PhD preferred, in AstronomyAstrophysics or Physics, or equivalent and relevant professional experience Knowledge of astronomical instrumentation, acquired through astronomical instrument hardware development andor intensive astronomical data reduction experience Knowledge and software engineering experience in Python and Java. Knowledge of Jupyter Notebook, Jupyter LabJupyter Hub frameworks and related technologies Essential Skills Excellent communication skills, including written and spoken English To work effectively in a team environment, and with the astronomical community around the world Strong organisational skills and a good sense of initiative

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Support to Gaia Configuration Control and Quality Assurance

2019-10-29 16:16:16| 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 within ESAC. Overview As a projectmission starts up a configuration management plan needs to be put in place. In addition, several tools need to be set up and maintained for effective configuration control, for example JIRA for project management, SubversionGit for version control, Jenkins for continuous integration, SonarQube for code quality and a document management system such as Livelink or Open Content Server all with associated user registration and permissions. Good configuration Management helps with good Quality assurance hence though the CM function is usually mission specific it is strongly supported and guided by PAQA service from SCIOOQ. In close liaison with SCIOP and in collaboration with the SCIOQ, the CM service includes the following tasks Develop and maintain CM including documentation management plan applicable to the Gaia mission. Contribute to develop and maintain CM procedures and practices applicable to SCIO and customized per mission where needed. Provide feedback to SCIOQ to support the development and maintenance of configuration control procedures and practices applicable to SCIO. Ensure that all authorized changes are implemented in accordance with the software configuration management plan. Define and implement the configuration identification items, baselines, versions, etc. process. Responsible of the configuration item storage libraries, environments, media control, etc. Define and implement procedures configuration change control for the project. Define and implement the configuration status accounting process e.g. releases. Provide the software release document and CIDL when needed. Maintain configuration item lists for missions, products and systems. Manage document releases to the document repository in conformance with the document management plan. Convene and support CCB meetings. Support test preparation, data, HW, procedures, etc. Support TRR and TRBs and the setup and maintenance of the test environment when needed. Maintain methods and tools relevant to CM activities e.g. JIRA. Perform routine user maintenance tasks for CM tools. Support the selection and implementation of the development environment and verify availability to developers and users on time. Specific Software Engineering Support for Gaia Maintenance of existing code modules such as MDB, AGIS, IDT and Gaia Tools java Library as requested Aid in the creation of the future astrometric solutions. Populating the operational AGIS processing DB with IDT and all needed auxiliary data Specific qualification requirements University degree or PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Applied Physics, Astrophysics or in equivalent relevant fields. Experience on ESA Science Ground Segment software engineering processes, such as ECSSEST40C and ECSSQST80C standards. Expertise producing software related documentation and knowledge of Latex will be valuable. Experience in software configuration control processes and tools. Good understanding of quality and product assurance process in the software development cycle. Several years of working experience in programming languages such as Java, C, Python. Experience in data modelling and database design. Expertise in the development and command of modern and commonly used scientific analysis software, ideally with applications in Space Science. Good understanding of Scientific Operations of an international spacebased observatory. Excellent analytical and communication experience. A high level of written and spoken English is essential. Fluency in Spanish also desirable. Flexibility and appreciation of diversity and of international working environment. Excellent organisation skills for projects execution and associated documentation. 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 30 November 2019 a summary of why you are a good candidate for the position together with a complete and detailedRecruitment Form or your CV with a motivation letter to Mr. Davide Starnone, at email davide.starnoneaurora.nl quoting reference SCO0105. Aurora will agree conditional employment terms and conditions with candidates before presenting their detailed technical proposal and candidates to ESA by 1 December 2019, 1300 hours.

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