Senior Satellite Tasking Engineer
Current- Constellation planning and management - Currently planning for Skysats and Dove constellations, also for Rapid Eye in the past- Optimize image collection schedules based on customer needs- Reporting and tracking of collection success- Detection and resolving technical and procedural issues- Develops and maintains collection metrics- Collaboration across teams (Mission operations, Customer-facing team)- Coordinates with space operations to ensure the health and safety of satellites - Improvement and creation of optimal processes around collection planning- Data analysis for collection optimization- Automation of operational routines- Feasibility analysis - Simulation of mission- constraints for planning (STK, QGIS, Python)- Working with historical and real-time weather data---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acquisition planning- Preparation of acquisition schedules, reception schedules- Payload configuration updates- Maintenance of resource model (for each of the 5 spacecraft and each X-Band Station)- Maintain the image processing chain from downlink to archiving of the data (built by MDA)- Monitor the ground segment subsystems, including troubleshooting and the documentation of operational procedures- Geometric Accuracy enhancement of satellite imagery and Geospatial product processing as well as accuracy and overall quality refinement- Management of archive data- Meet delivery deadlines