Sophie-Lynne Jory

Motivation

I wanted to understand how academics got the data. There must be Operations and Industry and I found it!
I found SPINternships(Space Placement in INdustry) and spacecraft operations!

What I learned

Teamwork during critical operations and communication and camaraderie.
The ability to laugh through hard times together and find optimism and hope in any challenge to be able to break down any problem and figure it out
How to be a mission planner and about aerospace engineering and how to understand and visualise a system so clearly, you can feel the data flow
How to make a mission patch in Paint 3D
The importance of giving a No-Go if you, as the expert, know the system is not ready, even if others of greater authority pressure you
How powerful warmth is in the workplace at making sure everyone is ok, included and that a good idea can come from anywhere (no matter the rank)

Space Industry Experience

OneWeb - MPS Application Lead (DevOps)

Sept 2021 - Apr 2022

Lead for the mission planning system application stack; collaborating with 3 other application team leads to build and maintain large, complex, and scalable dev and ops environments capable of commanding and processing telemetry from over 650 satellites.

Supported data centre migration of live satellite operations
Mission planning system architect
On-Call Mission planning expert
Operational Workflow Management
Created mission planning certification

OneWeb - Spacecraft (Constellation) Ops Engineer

Aug 2020 - Sept 2021

As part of the "on-console" OneWeb Operations team, responsible for the 24/7 operation of 200+ low Earth orbit satellites.

Satellite operator
Pre-Deployment Satellite Testing
Satellite Constellation Scheduling

Supported 13 launch campaigns, with call-signs Planner and Controller 1.

OneWeb - Mission Planner

Sept 2019 - Mar 2020

Operations and software development role, specializing in the master scheduling system for coordinating all satellite activities.

Incident response
Cross-department testing coordination
Playbooks for spacecraft operations

Lacuna Space - Intern

Dec 2018 - Feb 2019

Space Placement in Industry internship is a UK Space Agency funded, Satellite Applications Catapult organized scheme.

LEO Orbit prediction stability and forecasting using General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT) and writing scripts in R
Small start-up environment, working independently and remotely
Poster of work presented at the UK Space Conference 2019

Impactful

Heart

Purpose

Trailblazing