Wow, the NEOSM mission is staffing up. Again, from Planetary Exploration Newsletter:
NEAR-EARTH OBJECT (NEO) SURVEYOR SURVEY SCIENTIST
NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is a planned mission (launch: September 2027) with a goal of finding, identifying, and characterizing potentially hazardous asteroids in our Solar System. The Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences is an academic unit within the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences.
The NEO Surveyor survey scientist’s high-level responsibilities include:
– Assist the PI and Science Team in developing NEO Surveyor’s survey plan to determine where the Observatory points versus time.
– Interface with NEO Surveyor Science Data System (NSDS) archive to access NEO Surveyor image and catalog data. Work with NSDS team to maximize the ability to link individual NEO Surveyor detections of small body candidates.
– Interface with NEO Surveyor mission system team at PL and the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Physics (LASP); ensure the JPL and LASP teams produce uplink sequences matching the desired survey plan.
– Interface with the Minor Planet Center to ensure that the survey plan produces the best possible orbits for small body candidates detected by NEO Surveyor.
More information on the position, including qualifications, compensation range, benefits and how to apply are provided in the full position description: