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Southwest Airlines Flight Departs San Diego After Bomb Threat Delay
2015-01-28 18:51:14| Airlines - Topix.net
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Software Engineer for Flight Dynamics System Support
2015-01-28 17:07:17| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
About us SCISYS Deutschland GmbH provides professional engineering and consultancy services to spacecraft operators and spacecraft primes. Our team is composed of university graduates and experienced professionals, comprising some of the most knowledgeable, dedicated and talented engineers across Europe. Our services cover the whole life cycle of space programmes from early concepts to operations. Our Space Division provides a dynamic, supportive and friendly atmosphere in which you are encouraged to lead with initiative. We support new ideas from our colleagues and are focused on supporting space programmes and missions. We have a strong presence at ESOC and EUMETSAT, as well as serving other ESA sites, the German Space Operations Centre and the German Galileo Control Centre. Moreover, we actively manage your professional development, training and career progression. For the location in Darmstadt, Germany we are looking for a Software Engineer for Flight Dynamics System Support at EUMETSAT. Tasks The Consultant will provide hisher prime support to the evolution and maintenance of the EUMETSAT Copernicus Sentinel3 Flight Dynamics System part of the EUMETSAT Copernicus Sentinel3 FOS. The tasks of the Consultant will typically include Maintenance and Evolution Activities Reengineering activities analysis of the porting of some subsystems to stateoftheart technologies, tradeoff studies of various technologies, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes. Evolutions and changes generation andor analysis of userdriven and maintenancedriven software requirements, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes. Preventive and corrective maintenance including the investigation and correction or following the corrections implemented by external contractors of anomalies in the software facilities and verification testing of the fixes. Maintenance test procedures generation and updates of maintenance test procedures at software facility level and at system level. Support and development of the verification infrastructure development andor procurement of scripts I tools to perform installation checks, nonregression, functional and performance testing. Analysis and implementation of mechanisms or tools allowing the automatic or semiautomatic verification testing of the application software. Coordination of the production of new software releases or patches, delivery acceptance and installation onsite. This activity includes the technical coordination of the production by an external contractor of new releases or patches of the application software, liaison with the EUMETSAT operational users, participation to technical reviews, participation to infactory at contractor premises acceptance testing campaigns and coordination of the installation of the releases or patches onsite at EUMETSAT. Execution and coordination of software verification and nonregression testing campaigns. This activity includes preparation oftest data, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports, analysis of results and Troubleshooting of problems. User Support Software support software support to the endusers of the application software. Ensure operations continuity by provision of oncall services and software support to operations. Training prepare and provide training covering usage and maintenance aspects of the application software. Technical Management Documentation generation and updates of technical documents. Meeting participation participation to technical, progress and team meetings as needed and requested. Routine reporting preparation and production of routine reports as necessary. Technical point of contact for maintenance contractors acting as point of contact with the contractor for technical discussions, review of technical documentation from the contractor, organizing periodical technical meetings with the contractor. Essential requirements In addition to having a University degree in a relevant engineering discipline the Consultant shall have skills and experience in software maintenance, evolution and testing with the following mandatory areas Domain Skills Experience minimum 3 years in the design, development andor customisation of Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems in the context of LEO missions. System Development Maintenance Skills Experience minimum 3 years in the full cycle of development of application software, preferably for Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems, following formal Software engineering processes. This includes user and system requirement analysis, Software requirement engineering, software design and implementation reflecting maintenance activities as well as new applications definition. Experience minimum 3 years in corrective maintenance, integration and verification testing activities of application software for Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems following formal software engineering processes. This includes requirement verification, generation oftest plan and test procedures, nonRegression testing, generation of test data, generation of test tools, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports, and anomaly tracking, investigation, correction and testing. Software Engineering Skills Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software components and applications using Object Oriented 00 approach including design patterns. Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software applications using Java and related technologies. Experience minimum 3 years in developing software applications using Eclipse SDE Smart Development Environment and related projects and addons. Desirable requirements It would be a distinct advantage for the Consultant to have knowledge andor experience with some of the following Domain Skills Experience with software development and maintenance of Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems and Tools based on the ESAESOC NAPEOS Navigation Package for Earth Observation Satellite. Experience with software development and maintenance of Tools using the Orekit space dynamics library. Knowledge of Satellite Mission Control Systems. Knowledge of Mission Planning Systems. Experience with software support to operations for Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems. System Maintenance Skills Experience in being the technical point of contact for contractors working at offsite premises and responsible for application software evolution and maintenance. Software Technology Skills Experience with developing software applications using FORTRAN. IBM DOORS requirement management tool. Experience in version Control Systems CVS and SVN. Linux Operating System. Unified Modelling Language UML for software design. Experience in the usage of software CASE design tools e.g. Enterprise Architect andor MagicDraw. Experience in designing and developing software client applications using Eclipse as HMI framework Rich Client Platform. Experience using tools for the automation of software testing. Experience with static and dynamic software analysis tools in support to testing and troubleshooting. Experience in designing and developing component based software applications using formal techniques e.g. OSGi. Experience in developing software applications using interfaces to relational database management systems RDBMS and experience with data model design for RDBMS. Other Information Start date is forseen to be May 2015. Fluency in English is mandatory. Candidates must be an EU Citizen or have valid working permit to work in Germany. To ensure you application reaches us pleaseapply online at httpwww.scisys.despacejobs
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Scientists use 20 billion fps camera to film a laser in flight
2015-01-28 14:58:19| Extremetech
Light is the fastest thing in the universe, so Heriot-Watt University researchers built a mega-fast camera to film it moving through the air.
DRS Technologies' Groundbreaking Laser Designating Gimbal Completes First Flight Test
2015-01-28 11:31:41| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
ARLINGTON, Va. DRS Technologies Inc., a Finmeccanica Company, announced today that it successfully performed the first airborne demonstration of its GS205-XRZ laser designating gimbal. At less than six inches in diameter and weighing less than nine pounds, the GS205 is one of the smallest stabilized, light-weight...
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Software Engineer for Flight Dynamics System Support G015013EUM
2015-01-28 10:06:41| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Serco is a FTSE 250 international service company that improves the quality and efficiency of essential services that matter to millions of people around the world. The work we do for national and local governments involves us in the most important areas of public services, including science and defence. Sercos space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. With over 1500 staff in the space business covering a wide spectrum of experience and skills, we convey best practice, expertise and innovation in our business. For our activities in EUMETSAT, we are currently looking for a Software Engineer for Flight Dynamics System Support for the Sentinel 3 mission. Sentinel3 is a Low Earth Orbiting mission to support services relating to the marine and global land environment, with capability to serve further atmospheric and cryosphericbased application areas. The objectives of the Sentinel3 mission encompass the commitment to consistent, longterm collection of remotely sensed marine and land data, of uniform quality, for operational ocean state analysis, forecasting and service provision, in the context of the Copernicus Services as set up by the European Commission. Tasks and Responsibilities Maintenance and Evolution Activities Reengineering activities analysis of the porting of some subsystems to stateoftheart technologies, tradeoff studies of various technologies, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes. Evolutions and changes generation andor analysis of userdriven and maintenance driven software requirements, software design of the technical solutions, following the procurement of the changes with external contractors and verification testing of the changes. Preventive and corrective maintenance including the investigation and correction or following the corrections implemented by external contractors of anomalies in the software facilities and verification testing of the fixes. Maintenance test procedures generation and updates of maintenance test procedures at software facility level and at system level. Support and development of the verification infrastructure development andor procurement of scripts I tools to perform installation checks, nonregression, functional and performance testing. Analysis and implementation of mechanisms or tools allowing the automatic or semiautomatic verification testing of the application software. Coordination of the production of new software releases or patches, delivery acceptance and installation onsite. This activity includes the technical coordination of the production by an external contractor of new releases or patches of the application software, liaison with the EUMETSAT operational users, participation to technical reviews, participation to infactory at contractor premises acceptance testing campaigns and coordination of the installation of the releases or patches onsite at EUMETSAT. Execution and coordination of software verification and nonregression testing campaigns. This activity includes preparation of test data, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports, analysis of results and troubleshooting of problems. User Support Software support software support to the endusers of the application software. Ensure operations continuity by provision of oncall services and software support to operations. Training prepare and provide training covering usage and maintenance aspects of the application software. Requirements Essentials In addition to having a University degree in a relevant engineering discipline the key person shall have skills and experience in software maintenance, evolution and testing with the following mandatory areas Domain Skills Experience minimum 3 years in the design, development andor customisation of Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems in the context of LEO missions. System Development Maintenance Skills Experience minimum 3 years in the full cycle of development of application software, preferably for Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems, following formal software engineering processes. This includes user and system requirement analysis, software requirement engineering, software design and implementation reflecting maintenance activities as well as new applications definition. Experience minimum 3 years in corrective maintenance, integration and verification testing activities of application software for Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems following formal software engineering processes. This includes requirement verification, generation of test plan and test procedures, nonregression testing, generation of test data, generation of test tools, running the test procedures on the target system, generation of test reports, and anomaly tracking, investigation, correction and testing. Software Engineering Skills Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software components and applications using Object Oriented 00 approach including design patterns. o Experience minimum 3 years in designing and developing software applications using Java and related technologies. Experience minimum 3 years in developing software applications using Eclipse SDE Smart Development Environment and related projects and addons. Desirables It would be a distinct advantage for the Consultant to have knowledge andor experience with some of the following Domain Skills Experience with software development and maintenance of Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems and Tools based on the ESAESOC NAPEOS Navigation Package for Earth Observation Satellite. Experience with software development and maintenance of Tools using the Orekit space dynamics library. Knowledge of Satellite Mission Control Systems. Knowledge of Mission Planning Systems. Experience with software support to operations for Satellite Flight Dynamics Systems. System Maintenance Skills Experience in being the technical point of contact for contractors working at offsite premises and responsible for application software evolution and maintenance. Software Technology Skills Experience with developing software applications using FORTRAN. IBM DOORS requirement management tool. Experience in version Control Systems CVS and SVN. Linux Operating System. Unified Modelling Language UML for software design. Experience in the usage of software CASE design tools e.g. Enterprise Architect andor MagicDraw. Experience in designing and developing software client applications using Eclipse as HMI framework Rich Client Platform. Experience using tools for the automation of software testing. Experience with static and dynamic software analysis tools in support to testing and troubleshooting. Experience in designing and developing component based software applications using formal techniques e.g. OSGi. Experience in developing software applications using interfaces to relational database management systems RDBMS and experience with data model design for RDBMS. Application procedure Important All applicants must hold a current valid work permit for Germany or be EU nationals. Due to the high interest these roles generate, Serco reserves the right to commence, alter or conclude the recruitment process prior to the closing date. If shortlisted, a recruiter will contact you directly. If not, your application will remain in our database and can be matched against future openings. You can also login at any time to apply to additional positions. If you are interested in this vacancy, and think you have the skills and experience required, please apply via the relevant link available in our corporate careers website httpwww.serco.comcareersindex.asp If you have any question regarding this position please email space.careersserco.com Position Software Engineer for Flight Dynamics System Support Reference G015013EUM Application closing date 26.02.2015 Start date May 2015 If you are not yet registered with Serco we advise you to register your details by adding your details and attaching your CV via httpswww.amris.comsercoalertssignupform.php For additional information about Serco Group please consult our website www.serco.com For additional information about Serco Europe please consult our website www.serco.comeurope For additional information about EUMETSAT, please consult httpwww.eumetsat.int
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