Chantilly, VA30+ days ago
ul>Primary Support: • Trajectory design and optimization for launch vehicles and spacecraft for missions operating in LEO, MEO, HEO, GEO, and other earth-centric regimes • Astrodynamics and orbital mechanics analysis including orbit propagation and maneuver design and optimization for orbit transfer, stationkeeping, graveyard, disposal, and reentry events • Analysis of vehicles with chemical and/or electric propulsion • Evaluating contested missions applications for space systems to understand threat performance, assess vulnerabilities, and improve system resiliency • Exploring and defining the evolving Dynamic Space Operations (DSO) mission area • Maneuver and orbit design, selection, and optimization for missions that support Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) objectives with complex operational constraints • Developing Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), exploring Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), and incorporating operational constraints into the design and maturation of space systems • Providing operational support for nominal launch and spacecraft deployment and transfer sequences, anomaly resolution, and on-call emerging events • Utilizing optimal control, flight mechanics, and computer science/algorithm development skills to create new capabilities to service customer requests as stand-alone services and/or ready-to-integrate submodules • Combining AI/ML/RL techniques with flight mechanics modeling for assessing complex analysis and decision-making trade spaces • Performing research and development and building new flight dynamics tools to cultivate and maintain a healthy and modern internal tool base • Leveraging external tools like ASSET, GPOPS-II, SNOPT, POST, OTIS, Copernicus, GMAT, EMTG, etc. where appropriate to augment internally developed capabilities • Additional inter-department partnership collaborations opportunities: • Cislunar and exploration-class orbital mechanics analysis and trajectory optimization • Hypersonics, missiles, interceptors, and reentry vehicle trajectory design and optimization supporting Golden Dome or other related mission areas • Time-dependent Traveling Salesman Problems and Facility Location Problem (servicer) analysis • Integrated, multi-disciplinary RPO system simulations.