Mission Operations & Ground Segment Manager

Come join us in shaping the future! Get in on the ground floor as the first member of our Mission Operations & Ground Segment team, working on a revolutionary satellite communications system. Build the control center, build the team, then fly the spacecraft.

AscendArc is a venture-backed startup founded to revolutionize the satellite communications industry. We are looking for doers who want to work in a ground-breaking and fast-paced environment. Our success will depend on your energy, skill, and creativity.

Responsibilities

This is a build role before it is an operations role. We have no Mission Control Center, no operations software and no flight control team — you will create all three. You are the technical authority for everything on the ground, and the manager who grows the team that runs it. Our customers are commercial satellite operators, and the ground segment is part of what we sell them: you procure and develop the operations software, use it to fly the spacecraft through launch, electric orbit raising and in-orbit test, then deliver it and the spacecraft to the customer’s own operations team. Expect to do that more than once, so build it to be reused.

Ground segment architecture and build

• Own the ground segment architecture end to end: satellite control center (SCC), flight dynamics system (FDS), mission planning, mission database, data archive, networks and security • Stand up the Mission Control Center from nothing — facility, consoles, servers,…