Jacob Schabert Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Leading the integration effort of the flight operations of the Spacecraft Payload Integration and Evolution (SPIE) element of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) during the prelaunch, ascent, and in-space mission phases. Developing and integrating flight rules, operational scenarios, mission timelines, and abort modes for all phases of the mission.Interfacing and collaborating with NASA civil servants and contractors at Boeing, ULA, LM, and Jacobs to define technical agreements and requirements in order to meet program goals and objectives.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Leading the integration effort of the flight operations of the Spacecraft Payload Integration and Evolution (SPIE) element of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) during the prelaunch, ascent, and in-space mission phases. Developing and integrating flight rules, operational scenarios, mission timelines, and abort modes for all phases of the mission.Interfacing and collaborating with NASA civil servants and contractors at Boeing, ULA, LM, and Jacobs to define technical agreements and requirements in order to meet program goals and objectives.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Preparing and analyzing requirements and verification/validation strategies for the Space Launch System Integrated Systems & Elements Operability Team (ISEOT) as part of a Jacobs Space Exploration Group teammate organization on the ESSCA contract.

Morehead, Kentucky, United States

Ground data systems engineer for Lunar IceCube, a nanosatellite (CubeSat) developed in partnership with various NASA centers and the Busek Company. Lunar IceCube (LIC) is currently in development and is slated to launch on Artemis-1, the first launch of NASA's heavy-lift Space Launch System. My role involves working as an interface between technical and non-technical staff to define interfaces between various components of sophisticated systems. The analysis of mission requirements and constraints is a major portion of this task due to the complex, multi-faceted nature of the project. I occasionally write, test, and debug portions of our software system. My team’s objective is to adapt NASA JPL's open-source AMMOS Instrument Toolkit to fit our mission's ground data system requirements. To forward this goal, I facilitate the effective communication between management at NASA JPL and the small team of developers at Morehead State University by acting as the point of contact and technical liaison. This includes regular formal and informal technical discussion between myself and my analogues at JPL, as well as writing a considerable amount of documentation to be shared within the team. Test engineer for DSS-17, a 21-meter parabolic dish antenna which has been upgraded for compatibility to support the Deep Space Network’s X-Band operations. This task involves debugging of legacy DSN software and hardware, as well as operating both the downlink and uplink systems during developmental testing of LIC. This task involves end-to-end systems testing from both the DSS-17 operator’s perspective as well as the LIC operator’s perspective, allowing a unique insight to comprehensive system behavior. This task involves extensive use of HP 8560E and 8563E Spectrum Analyzers, among other test equipment. This task requires that I support functional demonstrations to program leadership and sponsors to showcase development milestones.

Morehead, Ky

Ground data systems engineer for Lunar IceCube, see above.Assembly, integration, and testing engineer for Lunar IceCube. This task involves writing test plans and assembly procedures. My role involves planning and performing a suite of tests of the satellite's X-band radio subsystem.Local subject matter expert for SPICE, an industry standard observational geometry calculation toolkit produced by NASA JPL. SPICE is a toolkit which provides geospatial geometry calculation utilities for use in planning and analyzing scientific observations. This task involved developing a reasoned understanding of Lunar IceCube's science mission as well as the complex geometries involved in correlating an observation with a physical location on the lunar surface.

Pasadena, California, United States

Intern developer of portions of SPICE 2.0, a re-write of SPICE in C++ 11. This position required significant historical understanding of design decisions and mechanics of legacy FORTRAN 77 code, including some knowledge and understanding of the geometric calculations performed by the software. This task primarily involved working as a member of a team of software developers to re-write the SPICE libraries in C++ 11 with design optimizations, performance enhancements, and accuracy gains as secondary goals. This position involved regular technical discussion and documentation development.

Pasadena, California, United States

Intern developer for Lunar IceCube’s implementation of SPICE. In this position, I was tasked with creating, validating, verifying and distributing specialized data files and programs to interpret these data files. This task required an understanding of the Lunar IceCube science mission and the SPICE toolkit. This position involved collecting spacecraft subsystem data from many members of the Lunar IceCube team in order to develop specialized SPICE data files. Additionally, this position involved working with the project scientist to develop software requirements and minimum success criteria. I used the SPICE toolkit to develop software in the C language to meet these requirements. The minimum success criteria for this summer internship were met, and my work in this area has continued at Morehead State. For more information, see paragraph two of experience titled “Undergraduate Research Fellow.”