Job description: Most complex projects have in common important constraints: time, budget, and scope. The CCU Space Program and ChantSat-1 mission seek a student Project Manager (PM) to contribute to overall coordination and leadership of the ChantSat-1 mission. You will work closely with the Faculty PM, Lead Systems Engineer, and student Chief Engineer and student Mission Specialists, to ensure delivery of a ChantSat-1 design that achieves all requirements, minimizes risks, and meets budget and schedule constraints. The PM, along with the CE below, will help drive the ChantSat-1 Project towards capturing and refining the necessary requirements that determine the scope of the overall Project.  Applicants from all the majors listed below are eligible to compete for the PM position.

Job description: Satellites are space “systems”, assemblies of interfaced, mutually interacting subsystems, such as payload, electric power systems, communication & data handling systems, and more, which must be concurrently designed (that is, designed at the same time, rather than sequentially one after the other). The CCU Space Program and ChantSat-1 mission seeks a student Chief Engineer (CE) to contribute to systems engineering leadership of the Chantat-1 mission. You will work closely with the Faculty, Lead Systems Engineer, student Subsystem Engineers, and student Mission Specialists, to ensure Project requirements are identified, captured, assigned, and eventually tested on all subsystems and Project interfaces in order to help assure overall mission success. Applicants for the CE position must be majors in Applied Physics or Engineering Science programs.

Job description: ChantSat-1 will feature two payloads: (1) a visible-to-near-infrared multispectral camera, which will enable diverse investigations in water resources management, environmental engineering, geospatial intelligence collection, and coastal oceanography, and (2) an innovative “selfie system,” complete with a billboard that features a programmable display. This will allow users on the ground to show custom images and text on the exterior of the satellite and photograph it, all against the grandeur of the low-earth orbit environment as the backdrop. The CCU Space Program and ChantSat-1 mission seek student Mission Specialists (MS’s x2) who will contribute to the development of end-use cases (how the imagery and photographs are used in data, scientific, and geospatial analysis, artistic expressions, and more!) and contribute to the identification, collection, and assignment of subsystem requirements, based upon the needs (size, weight, power, pointing, configuration, etc.) of their respective subsystem. Applicants from all the majors listed below are eligible to compete for an MS position.