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Asked by LouieC to Harriet on 5 Nov 2020.
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Harriet Gamble answered on 5 Nov 2020:
I have been working as a Space Systems Engineer for 2 years now since finishing my degree in 2018 and I did a year of work in the middle of my degree. In that time I have worked on three main satellites and helped with a few others. Of the satellites I have worked on one is in space already and the others won’t be launched for over 5 years so they are pretty long projects!
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Roy commented on :
As I have been in the business for 28 years I have lost count, the first Satellite I was really involved with was Inmarsat 3 and that launched in 1997 and has actually now been retired, I have probably been involved in over 100 different missions some are quite quick only 3 years from start to launch and others take much longer like Rosetta which took around 10 years to launch and then 10 years travel to get to it’s objective a Comet.
John commented on :
Three. I worked at the ground station for the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, I helped to build the UK experiment carried on the ROSAT X-ray mission and I tested optical components for the European Infrared Space Observatory. You could also include writng proposals for a few other projects which never got funded. My lab, the UKATC at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, is invovled with the JWST, a huge space telescope due to launch next year, but I have no direct role in this project.
Craig commented on :
I worked on missions to Venus, Earth, and Mars while at NASA. Since being in Europe, I worked on two more Mars missions, several cubesats (satellites usuall 30-60cm tall), cameras for solar telescopes, and parts for a detector going to Jupiter. If you hang around long enough, you get to go lots of places.:-)