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Summer may be over, but the sun always shines at our station down in Florida! Our Ground Systems Engineer, Ross Smith has been enjoying the summer by balancing outdoor activities like fishing, grilling, swimming and staying cool indoors ✨“Living inland, the lack of breeze makes the heat even more intense, but we have found a great variety of activities to make the most of it”, he says.“Exploring places like Palm Beach and Fort Myers adds a lot of variety to your experiences, with Florida offering so much in terms of boating, sightseeing, shopping, and more. It’s also great that Mewtwo, my cat, is such a versatile companion, not just keeping my home and office free of pests but also joining you on your drives and bike rides. He’s quite the adventure cat and truck kitty!”Thanks for sharing Ross! Ps. Did you know that Clewiston has the ability to support S-Band uplink and dual X-Band downlink? More specifically, it means that we can send commands to satellites and receive a lot of detailed information from them at the same time, using different communication channels. This makes managing and getting data from satellites faster and more efficient 🛰️Pretty cool if you ask us!

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Another day and another fun announcement! This time, we're happy to present Emma Stenholm who has been appointed as the newChief Security Officer (CSO). She will take office from 21 October as part of the company’s management team.“I am excited to join SSC and thrilled to join the journey to help Earth benefit from Space. This is a new industry for me, and I can see both differences and similarities from my previous employers and industries. Security and resilience is crucial for all businesses today, also within the space industry,” she says. Let's give her a warm welcome! 🚀

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We're so happy to announce Carina Aspenberg as the new SVP & Head of Communications of SSC! She will take office on 1 October as part of the Executive Committee, EC. "I am thrilled to join SSC as Head of Communications. This is an incredible opportunity to contribute to the future of space exploration and innovation, and I'm excited to work with such a talented team to help shape and share the groundbreaking work SSC is doing”, she says. Welcome, Carina! 👩🚀 We all look forward to having you in our team 🚀

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Today, we’re excited to hear from Alexander Hemberg, a Software Engineer and valued team member who worked with us in the past, ventured elsewhere, and chose to return to our company. We’re honored to be a workplace that one would want to return to! Here’s what he had to say about how he initially joined us, the challenges he’s working on at SSC now, and how we stand out from others in the industry 🚀“I studied Aerospace Engineering at KTH, and I have always been passionate about space technology. During my time at KTH, I had the chance to do my master's thesis at SSC and after that I was offered a position as a Systems Engineer within the company.Right now, I’m focused on developing software for SSC’s satellite communications services. The main challenge we’re tackling is ensuring that we can offer both efficient and reliable communication with our customers' spacecraft. To do this, we’re using the latest software technologies and practices, which keeps things both interesting and impactful.SSC has grown a lot over the years, especially in the software engineering area. We now have a modern software organization that follows industry best practices, which is exciting to be part of. The idea of working with cutting-edge software within the space industry was a big draw for me to return. While many companies work with modern software practices, not many do so in the context of space, which in my opinion makes SSC pretty unique.What sets SSC apart is the blend of what I like to call "real engineering" within the space domain and the adoption of modern software engineering practices. SSC has always had a strong engineering culture, and when it is complemented by contemporary software development methodologies it creates a very motivating environment for innovation and problem-solving.”Thank you so much for sharing, Alexander! 👩🚀Do you want to join his team? Check out this link to see our open positions! sscspace.com/career

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How do you execute the perfect space slingshot?🌌That’s something that our team members at ESOC had to master as they navigated what had never been done before: a double gravity assist! A double gravity assist involves using the gravitational pull of not only one, but two celestial bodies in sequence to change a spacecraft's speed and trajectory. By carefully timing flybys of these bodies, the spacecraft gains energy from one and adjusts its path toward the next, enabling it to reach distant destinations more efficiently. Sending Juice straight to Jupiter would have required 60 000kg of onboard propellant, which would have been quite complicated to arrange 🌎 When talking about the mission, our Spacecraft Operations Engineer Team Lead Ry Evill explains:“It has been both exciting and at times nerve-wracking preparing for and executing the Juice LEGA (Lunar-Earth Gravity Assist).The complications of the double gravity assist manouvre arise out of the greatly reduced margins for error. If we miss the optimal Moon flyby, we potentially enter the Earth flyby with the incorrect approach trajectory, which could be catastrophic. All activities taking place in the 24 hours between the Moon and Earth flyby are greatly condensed compared to the timeframe over which they are usually performed; we have much less time than usual to recompute orbit determination following the Moon flyby, and only have a few hours to implement a trajectory correction manouevre in case we need it prior to the Earth flyby.The Moon flyby not only provides an additional gravity kick for spacecraft navigation, but also offers a unique opportunity to calibrate the science instruments on board. In fact, the flyby is similar to the type of operation that Juice will perform at the moons of Jupiter in 7 years’ time, where it will perform 35 moon flybys as it orbits Jupiter. The Jupiter tour promises to be a spectacular culmination to the Juice journey!” If you haven’t heard of the mission before, “Juice” stands for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer and is a mission by ESA. It will spend four years making observations on Jupiter and three of its largest moons, and whether the moons host liquid water underneath their icy surfaces or not. Since it’s been proven that life can thrive in the darkest and deepest parts of the oceans on our own planet, chances are that there might be life in their hypothetical oceans too 🌊In the first photo, you can see part of the LSE team in the ESOC interplanetary control room two days ago, monitoring JUICE after the Moon flyby and as it was approaching the Earth flyby. Pictured from left to right: Carmine Formisano (Spacecraft Operations Engineer), Maarten van Nistelrooij (Spacecraft Controller), and Ry Evill (Spacecraft Operations Engineer Team Lead).Additionally, kudos to: Manuel Heck, Steffen Bamfaste, Giuseppe Esposito, Hamza Nachett, Félix Romero Gómez, Dario Di FrancescoImage 2-3 credit: ESA

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Excited to announce that our CEO Charlotta Sund will be speaking at World Space Business Week! 🌟Moderated by Laurent Valignon, she will be participating in a panel discussion with the theme: Ground Segment Services: Evolution or Paradigm Shift. She will be accompanied by Aaron Hawkins, John Williams and Rolf Skatteboe.Taking place in Paris between the 16th and the 20th of September, #WSBW organised by gathers 1,600 industry leaders for a week of deal-making and in-depth discussions that are shaping the future of the sector 🚀

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Happy SuperMo(o)nday! Tonight we're expecting a supermoon, meaning that the moon will appear slightly larger than a usual full moon. This happens when the moon is at its closest point to us in its own elliptical orbit 🌑Did you know that we’re greatly involved in lunar missions? Our ground station network assisted the Apollo Space Program and other lunar missions for NASA, ESA, ISRO and SpaceIL!Swipe to read more about our capabilities and what we’ve done so far🌙

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After yet another successful Small Satellite Conference (SmallSat) – filled with discussion about mission support through the SSC Connect ground network – we bid goodbye to Logan for the last time. We hope to see you all again nextyear at a bigger and better SmallSat conference at its new venue in Salt Lake City 📡🛰In the photo, from left to right: Dan Narey, Iraklis Hatziathanasiou, Ankit R.ohatgi, John Carvey, Pia Bonaure, Erwin Mercado, Nico Trebbin and Greg Johnson.#SmallSat #SpaceConference #SmallSatelliteConference #GroundStation #GroundSegment #Connectivity #GroundToSpace #SpaceToGround #SSCconnect #SSC #SwedishSpaceCorporation #Esrange #EsrangeSpaceCenter

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Did you know we’re operating 10 ground stations strategically located around the world for optimum coverage, plus 11 supplementary partner stations?📡 We're actually the owners of one of the largest, most flexible and dependable ground station networks in the world!Below are some photos of a few of our amazing sites, from first to last: Santiago, Florida, Esrange and Western Australia!Which one would you want to visit? 👩🚀

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