Senior Orbital Analyst

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Senior Orbital Analyst

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• Advance the Future of Space Operations :
  Drive innovation at the intersection of military operations, commercial space capabilities, and emerging technologies that directly support national security missions.
• Make Mission-Critical Impact :
  Lead efforts that shape training, experimentation, exercises, and operational readiness across the Space Enterprise and Combatant Commands.
• Operate at the Cutting Edge :
  Integrate modeling and simulation, Space Domain Awareness (SDA), and Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Tracking (TACSRT) capabilities to solve tomorrow’s challenges today.
• Work with Elite Teams :
  Collaborate with operators, engineers, and mission partners across government, industry, and defense organizations to deliver transformative capabilities.
• Turn Vision into Capability :
  Influence how next-generation space systems are evaluated, adopted, and employed in real-world operations where success matters most.

We are seeking an experienced Orbital Analyst to support Space Domain Awareness (SDA) missions and analytical activities across a range of operational and technical efforts. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of orbital mechanics, astrodynamics, and SDA, along with the analytical judgement necessary to characterize satellite behavior and communicate mission-relevant findings.

The Orbital Analyst will analyze historical and real-time space data, assess routine and anomalous satellite activity, and develop clear, defensible assessments to support operational and technical decision-making. The analyst may support government, commercial, and allied mission partners, including operational SDA environments such as the Joint Commercial Operations (JCO) construct, and will collaborate with K  analysts, operators, customers, and software development personnel to improve analytical workflows, procedures, and products capabilities.

• Apply orbital mechanics, astrodynamics, satellite state data, and perturbation concepts to analyze and characterize space object behavior.
• Analyze historical and real-time data to identify maneuvers, patterns, trends, anomalous activity, and other mission-relevant events.
• Evaluate orbital changes and satellite behavior to generate technical assessments, including appropriate consideration of data quality and uncertainty.
• Communicate analytical findings through clear written products, visualizations, and technical discussions.

• Collaborate with analysts, operators, government customers, commercial partners, and other mission stakeholders to address analytical needs and emerging events.
• Translate complex orbital analysis into clear, actionable information for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to analytical procedures, workflows, training, and knowledge sharing to improve mission effectiveness.

• Analyze historical and real-time satellite data to identify patterns and characterize satellite behavior.
• Apply creative and “outside the box” thinking to hypothesize and identify potential new capabilities or interpretations of situations.
• Collaborate directly with the software development team to provide analytical requirements and feedback for product refinement.

• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy, or a related STEM discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Demonstrated professional experience in orbital analysis, astrodynamics, SDA, space operations, or a closely related technical field, 6+ years.
• Demonstrated ability to…