Senior Orbital Analyst

## Senior Orbital Analyst Apply:
Colorado Springs, Colorado:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R2129582
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* Title:

** Senior Orbital Analyst
*** Belong. Connect. Grow. with K !
***** Why Join Us?**
* ** 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.
** Position Overview
** 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.
** Key Responsibilities
**** Orbital Analysis and Space Domain Awareness
*** 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.
** Mission and Customer Support
*** 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.
** Problem-Solving and Innovation
*** 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.
** Required Qualifications
*** 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 analyze complex data, identify relevant patterns or behaviors, and develop technically defensible conclusions.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work effectively in time-sensitive operational environments
* Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively as part of a distributed technical and operational team
* Proven ability to brief senior military and government leaders.
* Experience supporting operational software tools, visualization platforms, or mission applications.
* Excellent written and verbal…