Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Specialist [26043]

We are seeking a skilled Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Specialist to support our growing space operations and space safety initiatives. In this role, you will play a critical part in analysing, monitoring, and safeguarding space assets by leveraging advanced orbital mechanics, sensor data, and space surveillance technologies. You will collaborate with technical teams, operational partners, and international agencies to ensure safe and sustainable use of the space domain, as well as our inhouse product team that is developing our space surveillance digital platform, ASTREK.

While the focus is on SSA, depending on your background and to support your ramp-up, you will also support our Flight Dynamics Team at our customer site ESA/ESOC.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct orbital analysis, conjunction assessment and risk evaluation for satellites and space objects.
• Monitor space environment data, including debris, resident space objects (RSOs) and potential threats.
• Analyse and interpret data from ground‑based and space‑based sensors, catalogues and tracking systems.
• Develop operational insights to support collision avoidance manoeuvres and safe satellite operations.
• Contribute to SSA/STM (Space Traffic Management) processes, policies and reporting.
• Produce high‑quality technical documentation, reports and mission‑support products.
• Work cross‑functionally with mission controllers, flight dynamics teams, data engineers and system developers.
• Support the enhancement of internal SSA analytical tools, models and data pipelines.
• Remain informed on emerging SSA standards, regulatory developments and international best practices.