Digantara is a leading
Space Surveillance and Intelligence
company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across regimes, allowing end users to have actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception
(data collection), comprehension
(data processing), and prediction
(analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects
(RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.Digantara is looking for a Mission Operations Engineer to work on the planning and execution of our space-based SSA infrastructure. The mission operations engineer will provide expertise to ensure the smooth and well-planned operation of Digantara's space-based assets.
Why Us
- Competitive incentives, galvanising workspace, blazing team, frequent outingspretty much everything that you have heard about a startup + you get to work on satellites.
- Hustle in a well-funded startup with a flat hierarchy that allows you to take charge of your responsibilities and create your own moonshot.
Responsibilities
- Prepare detailed mission plans and flight procedures for nominal and contingency operations for Digantara's space missions.
- Planning, scheduling, execution, and reporting of real-time operations from LEOP to decommissioning spacecraft.
- Develop and implement methods and software scripts for operational automation to reduce day-to-day operator responsibilities.
- Design and execute strategies for testing, simulation, and validation of mission/fault/autonomy design.
- Preparation of payload operations support (CONOPS, Payload operating procedures, calibration procedures, commissioning procedures, etc.)
- Support ground segment design and test, including command and control, mission data processing, and the associated infrastructure to support all activities.
- Interface with ground station networks, spacecraft manufacturers, and payload development teams to ensure smooth coordination of mission activities.
- Conduct critical ground segment testing, including radio-frequency compatibility testing, remote ground facility interface testing, and acceptance testing of critical ground assets/locations
- Participate in formal Mission Rehearsal events to train the mission team and to validate the mission design
- Contribution to operational documentation (Flight Operational Handbook, Mission Operations Plan, Commissioning and Decommissioning Plans, etc.)
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in science and engineering-related programs.
- 3 years of experience in space mission operations, satellite systems engineering or AIT
- Deep understanding of satellite subsystems
- Knowledge of orbital mechanics
- Proficient in Python or any other scripting language
Preferred Qualifications
- 5 years of experience in spacecraft mission operations.
- Experience in contributing throughout the lifecycle of a satellite mission.
- Knowledge of ground station operations, RF communication systems, and protocols.
- Understanding of network and telecommunications engineering.
- Experience in software development
- Experience with Data Analysis
General Requirements
- Ability to work in a mission-focused, operational environment
- Ability to think critically and make independent decisions
- Interpersonal skills to enable working in a diverse and dynamic team
- Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule
- Writing and delivering technical documents and briefings
- Verbal and written communication skills, as well as organizational skills
- Travel occasionally as necessary
Job Location:
Hebbal, Bengaluru
