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Space News

  • Why SpaceX IPO plan is generating so much buzz

    More than 20 years after founding SpaceX, the record-breaking company that transformed the global space industry, Elon Musk is planning to take the enterprise public.

  • NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim to Discuss Eight-Month Space Station Mission

    NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will recap his recent mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 3:30 p.m. EST Friday, Dec. 19, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Watch the news conference live on NASA’s YouTube channel. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including […]

  • NASA’s Webb, Curiosity Named in TIME’s Best Inventions Hall of Fame

    Two icons of discovery, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME’s “Best Inventions Hall of Fame,” which recognizes the 25 groundbreaking inventions of the past quarter century that have had the most global impact, since TIME began its annual Best Inventions list in 2000. The inventions are celebrated […]

  • A Rare Gourd

    NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Here, we can see the star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, during which it blows its outer layers of […]

  • SpaceX launches 1st of 5 missions on tap in next 8 days on Florida's Space Coast

    SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are combining for a busy week of rocket launches on the Space Coast.

Space Industry Jobs

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    Director of Programmes

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany
    €10,000 - €15,000 per month

    Reporting directly to the Director General, the Director of Programmes leads ESO's major programmes and oversees the Organisation's programmatic framework. The Director of Programmes is responsible for programme planning and control, for providing project-management capabilities across ESO, and for guiding the design...

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    Astronomer / VLTI Project Scientist

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany
    €5,000 - €10,000 per month

    The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) is an ESO flagship infrastructure and facility combining the light from the four 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes and the four associated movable Auxiliary Telescopes. Its development recently included the GRAVITY and MATISSE instruments, and the planned final commissioning...

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    ELT Programme Scientist

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany
    €7,500 - €11,000 per month

    The ELT Programme Scientist provides the overall scientific leadership for the ELT and its suite of instruments. The role encompasses all scientific aspects of the ELT Construction Programme, covering the telescope itself, and the development of its instruments under the ESO Instrumentation Programme. A key...

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    Senior Photonics Design Engineer

    MBRYONICS · Galway, G, Ireland

    MBRYONICS is at the forefront of free space optical communications. Our product portfolio covers a wide range of emerging technologies from photonic integrated circuits to advanced optical systems and embedded software solutions. Our optical communications systems are integrated and deployed in satellite...

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    Data Systems Engineer (f/m/d)

    Telespazio Germany GmbH · Darmstadt, HE, Germany

    We are supporting the European Space Agency (ESA) with Data Systems management services at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt. Within the area of Earth Observation Data Systems our service team manages the ground segment operations and evolutions of a family of missions. To complement this...