Telesat

Senior LEO Flight Dynamics Analyst

Ottawa, Ontario · Senior

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About the role

Telesat is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, and has offices and facilities around the world.
The company's state-of-the-art Satellite fleet consists of 12 GEO satellites, the Canadian payload on ViaSat-1 and one LEO 3 demonstration satellite.
All qualified applicants that have been selected for an interview that require accommodations, are advised to inform the Telesat Talent team accordingly.

Leads operational planning and execution of key orbital mission phases;
Performs advanced conjunction assessment and recommend collision avoidance actions;
Supports Installation, Validation and Verification of FDS systems;
Optimizes FDS system to monitor and maintain orbit determination and maneuver reconstruction processes;
Performs propellant usage and maneuver performance analysis;
Develops satellite uploads for execution and monitoring, maintain orbit maintenance procedures for use by the SOC;
Supports development of automation of scripts for the FDS operations of the spacecraft;
Experience in developing software and with a variety of platforms and programming tools using modern scripting languages, however, operational procedure scripting languages will also be used so the ability to learn new tools is critical;

Masters or Bachelor degree in Applied Mathematics, Physics, Aerospace Engineering or Computer Science or the equivalent;
A background in statistics, calculus, classical mechanics, celestial mechanics and computer programming is required;
Experience with Linux systems administration, Python programming and configuration management would be an asset;

Successful candidate must possess (or be eligible to obtain) a CGP security clearance

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