• Lead a team of spacecraft and subsystem engineers during launch and early orbit activities to commission the space vehicle(s) for service • Perform duties of lead technical authority during mission operations for both the space and ground segments • Support every aspect of the mission lifecycle, from proposal/mission modeling, design, integration and test, space vehicle shipment, launch and on-orbit operations, to decommissioning • Define ground and mission operations requirements, and flow mission requirements back to the space vehicle team • Define mission concept of operation and design reference missions • Improve future vehicle designs by cataloguing lessons learned from on-orbit exercises • Support the ground segment design, including command and control, mission planning, mission data processing, and the associated infrastructure to support all activities • Implement and test space vehicle fault and autonomy, including fault detection and response, autonomous space vehicle behavior, and on-board command and control • Develop and implement methods of operational automation, to reduce day-to-day operator responsibilities • Create and execute space vehicle simulator tests to validate mission/fault/autonomy design • Create and execute in-factory flight vehicle tests to validate mission design compatibility with flight hardware • Conduct critical ground segment testing, including radio-frequency compatibility testing, remote ground facility interface testing, and acceptance testing of critical ground assets/locations • Forms and leads anomaly response team when off-nominal vehicle conditions arise • Contribute to customer briefings/debriefings for orbital events • Design and validate the mission “sequence of events” for bus commissioning, payload checkout/calibration, and mission operations • Contribute to Mission Rehearsal events to train the mission team and to validate the mission design