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Space News

  • NASA Awards Custodial, Refuse Collection Contract 

    NASA has selected All Native Synergies Company of Winnebego, Nebraska, to provide custodial and refuse collection services at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Custodial and Refuse Collection Services III contract is a firm-fixed-price contract with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity provision. Its maximum potential value is approximately $33.5 million. The performance period begins […]

  • A Dazzling Supernova

    This image, released on Feb. 24, 2017, shows Supernova 1987a (center) surrounded by dramatic red clouds of gas and dust within the Large Magellanic Cloud. This supernova, first discovered on Feb. 23, 1987, blazed with the power of 100 million Suns. Since that first sighting, SN 1987A has continued to fascinate astronomers with its spectacular […]

  • NOAA releases imagery from world's first operational space-based coronagraph

    NOAA today shared the first images from the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), a powerful solar telescope onboard the new GOES-19 satellite. CCOR-1, the world's first operational, space-based coronagraph, began observing the sun's corona, the faint outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, on September 19, 2024.

  • NASA reveals prototype telescope for gravitational wave observatory

    NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes and other cosmic sources.

  • NASA Wallops to Support October Sounding Rocket Launch

    NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to support the launch of a suborbital sounding rocket for the U.S. Department of Defense during a launch window that runs 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. EDT each day from Wednesday, Oct. 23 to Friday, Oct. 25. No real-time launch status updates will be available. The launch […]

Space Industry Jobs

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    Flight Assembly Technician

    Surrey Satellite Technology · Guildford, England, United Kingdom

    *This role sits inside IR35 We are currently looking for a contractor to Join our growing flight assembly team. Role requirements Primary role will be building flight hardware to IPC and ESA standard. This will include PCA, Module build, and harness work. Previous experience in a cleanroom...

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    Project Controller

    Surrey Satellite Technology · Guildford, England, United Kingdom

    *This Role sits inside IR35* Reports To Financial Controlling Team Leader Key Purpose of Role To ensure the effective financial control of various designated projects & bids. Key Tasks Costing & Bidding Operate as finance lead on bidding activities. This involves...

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    Accountant - Fixed Assets

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany

    As part of the Administration Directorate, the Finance Department ensures that financial resources are used according to the applicable rules and regulations, and in line with the directions defined by ESO's governing bodies. Our Finance Department covers four main areas: Budgeting and Controlling, Accounting,...

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    IT Cybersecurity Project Specialist

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany

    ESO IT is moving to a security first strategy, has prepared a cybersecurity implementation plan and is recruiting an IT Cybersecurity Project Specialist to manage critical cybersecurity projects. After finishing your university degree in computer science or cybersecurity you have ideally several years of general...

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    IT Specialist Asset Management

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany

    As a specialist for IT Asset Management (ITAM), you will manage and optimize the organisation's IT assets, hardware and software by providing effective asset management solutions and services. This includes all processes during the asset lifecycle: requirements assessment, procurement, deployment, operation and...

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    Project Manager

    The European Southern Observatory · 2 positions

    The Project Management department comprises a highly international group of 17 Project Managers leading a wide variety of projects that expand and strengthen the scientific and operational capabilities of our observatories in Chile. Your role will be to lead the development of astronomical instrumentation or...

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    Electronics Engineer / Group Head

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany

    ESO is looking for an Electronics Engineers to work in ELE's Telescope and Instrument Electronic Group (ETIE). The department comprises about 33 electronics engineers and technicians, 7 of them in the ETIE group (incl. the group head), who work closely with other departments at ESO as well as with international...

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    ALMA Regional Centre Astronomer

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany

    The ALMA Regional Centre (ARC) department at ESO provides the interface between the European ALMA Users Community and the ALMA observatory in Chile. In coordination with the ARCs in the other ALMA partner regions, the ARC at ESO promotes and provides support of the highest standards to the ALMA user community and...

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    Project Manager

    The European Southern Observatory · Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

    As one of the organisational change management projects hosted within ESO's Integrated Operations Programme (IOP), the mission of the project manager is to ensure the successful planning, execution, and completion of IOP projects for ESO's next generation Observatory operations model. The project manager is...

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    Astronomer / Instrument Project Scientist

    The European Southern Observatory · Garching, BY, Germany

    ESO is engaged in the operation and construction of a number of optical and infrared instruments for its observatories. The Instrument Project Scientist follows the development and construction phases of new instruments supporting and nurturing its science goals, ensuring that the top-level requirements are...