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For the astronaut with everything, the $115,000 Moon Orbiter watch
2013-06-17 19:45:00| CNET News.com
At nearly half the price of a suborbital flight, Romain Jerome's latest slab of luxury has sci-fi styling, moon dust, and Apollo 11 bits. But no spacesuit. [Read more]
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Electrical AIT Support to Solar Orbiter
2013-02-07 14:37:49| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Vitrociset Belgium is looking for a candidate with the profile described below to deploy in Astrium Ltd, Stevenage. Please submit applications not later than 050313 by EMAIL to Mr. Massimiliano Mazza, Head of Engineering services Satellite Operations M.Mazzavitrocisetbelgium.com cc. jobsvitrocisetbelgium.com Job Overview The following general activities have been identified Technical review and support the procurement of the EPS and its associated equipments, Technical review of the PCDU, Battery and SADA SADM and SADE, Generation of related inputs into the Prime Engineering team for example MICD, TICD, EICD, SW application requirements, User requirements, Operational inputs, harness requirements Review of all technical documentation from the EPS, PCDU, Battery and SADA suppliers Schedule and Risk inputs to the Prime team for the EPS, PCDU, Battery and SADA, Provide general detailed circuit analysis and review support to the Prime team component level support in ECSS requirement environment Generation of Prime level synthesis analysis from EPS level analyses and spacecraft inputs Generation of test planning and requirements at both Prime test bench ETB and Flight spacecraft level for the EPS, PCDU, Battery and SADA. Provide technical support for ETB and Flight spacecraft testing of the EPS, PCDU, Battery and SADA and review of resultant test results. The following activities shall be performed Technical review and support the procurement of the EPS and EPS units including Review at subsystem level Maintenance of the Requirement specification for the EPS Review of the EPS units PCDU, SADA and Battery Schedule and Risk inputs to the Prime team for the EPS, PCDU, SADA and Battery Technical support to the procurement of the Solar Array Review of the technical documentation of the power subsystems and units Review EPS, EPS units and Solar array subsystem test plans, test procedures and test reports Support subsystem supplier, unit level MRRTRRDRB activities Generation of Prime level synthesis analysis from EPS level analyses and spacecraft inputs Generate Prime level Power Subsystem documentation inputs based on EPS supplier inputs Generation of related inputs into the Prime Engineering team including Inputs to harness requirement specification voltage drop, harness losses. Review and collate EICD inputs from EPS and review spacecraft EICD Inputs for Mechanicalthermal teams from suppliers for EPS MICD, TICD and provide support Inputs to the Spacecraft User Manuals for the Power Subsystem Inputs to the PA organisation for Safety, Hazards, Reliability aspects of the EPS and support PA in RFD and NCR resolution Review and coordinate TMTC ICD and Calibration inputs from the power subsystem units to Spacecraft database Liase with Central Software team on Power Subsystem application requirements and the Test simulator team on Power Subsystem modelling Provide interface support on Power matters to the Payload team Support Flight operation procedure generation for EPS equipments. Support the maintenance of the spacecraft power and Energy budgets and resource LCL, Pyros, etc. allocations Provide general detailed circuit analysis and review support to the platform team component level support in ECSS requirement environment Contribute to system level and supplier level reviews, participate in MRB, supplier level inspections Perform the compatibility analysis between the Power Subsystem outlets and the equipment power demand incl. transients and spacecraft level EPS performance analysis. Provide support to the Spacecraft level test programme, including Establish test plans and test requirement specifications for EPS units and power chain at both Prime test bench ETB and Flight spacecraft levels Test preparation support FMEA, Test Specification Reviews, etc. Provide technical support to Prime test bench ETB Power Subsystem testing Provide technical support to Spacecraft Power Subsystem testing Review, analyse and synthesise results from EPS units and power chain integration and test at both ETB and Flight spacecraft levels Duration of the activity April 2013 March 2015 plus possible extensions Specific Requirements Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience. o Good experience in system testing and payloads functional tests more than 4 years. o An ability to work in a project team with a sense of cooperation and negotiation with colleagues at Astrium or within Industry is also required. o Availability to witness tests and to participate to AIT activities for relative long periods abroad, up to several months in the case of the satellite launch campaign.
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