star-catcher · Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Skills: Python
Power the future of Space at Star Catcher Star Catcher is building the first energy grid in space to power the orbital economy. Today’s spacecraft must generate all of their own power, which caps what they can do and how long they can operate. But what if they could “plug” into a grid, the way buildings do on Earth? Instead of cables and outlets, Star Catcher is building the technology to wirelessly beam energy to spacecraft’s existing solar panels when and where they need it. Be an early member of a team building an entirely new energy infrastructure at scale to power the next frontier. Star Catcher Industries, Inc. , located in Jacksonville, Florida , has an opportunity for a Senior Electrical Engineer - Controls (Pointing, Acquisition & Tracking) to support the development of space-to-space power beaming spacecraft and the Star Catcher Network, its orbital power grid. Key Responsibilities Lead pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) controls for spacecraft optical power delivery, from requirements and design through real-time implementation, verification, and on-orbit performance assessment. Own PAT control and estimation architecture, including coarse/fine pointing coordination, acquisition, handoff, tracking, loss-of-lock detection, and reacquisition. Co-own system interfaces with electrical, FPGA, flight software, optical, mechanical, and spacecraft attitude-control leads. Develop detection, centroiding, estimation, and sensor-fusion algorithms robust to low signal-to-noise ratio, background variation, platform motion, and intermittent measurements. Define measurement-validity and tracking-confidence criteria. Define sensor, actuator, and processing requirements for field of view, dynamic range, noise, bandwidth, update rates, timestamp accuracy, latency, jitter, travel limits, and saturation behavior. Own pointing and tracking error budgets, including bias, alignment, thermal drift, measurement noise, platform jitter, and timing error. Define coordinate fra…
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