A.E.R.O. is now recruiting users for all the of our Mission Control Positions!

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IMPORTANT: (must be a citizen of Simple Landia) (<-- link)

(note that if all positions are full and I think that someone else is more fit for the job than the current owner of the position I have every right to move someone down in rank and promote someone else)

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COMMON FLIGHT CONTROL POSITIONS:

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- Flight Director [FLIGHT]

Leads the flight control team. Flight has overall operational responsibility for missions and payload operations and for all decisions regarding safe, expedient flight. This user monitors the other flight controllers, remaining in constant verbal communication with them via intercom channels called "loops”.

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- Flight Operations Directorate [FOD]

He is there to help the flight director make those decisions that have no safety-of-flight consequences, but may have cost or public perception consequences. The FOD cannot overrule the Flight Director during a mission.

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- Capsule Communicator [CAPCOP]

Generally, only the Capsule Communicator communicates directly with the crew of a manned space flight. A.E.R.O feels it’s important for all communication with the astronauts in space to pass through a single individual in the Mission Control Center. That role was designated the Capsule Communicator or CAPCOM and was filled by another astronaut, often one of the backup- or support-crew members. A.E.R.O. believes that an astronaut is most able to understand the situation in the spacecraft and pass information in the clearest way. For long-duration missions there is more than one CAPCOM, each assigned to a different shift team. Each CAPCOM used the radio call-sign AERO. When non-astronauts are communicating directly with the spacecraft, CAPCOM acts as the communications controller. Non-astronauts from the Space Flight Training branch also function as CAPCOM during missions.

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- Flight Surgeon [SURGEON]

Directs all medical activities during the mission. Monitors crew health via telemetry, provides crew consultation, and advises the flight director. A private communication channel can be established between astronauts and the flight surgeon, to provide doctor-patient confidentiality.

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- Public Affairs Officer [PAO]

Provides mission commentary to supplement and explain air-to-ground transmissions and flight control operations to the news media and the public. The individual filling this role is often referred to colloquially as The Voice of Mission Control.

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SMLANETARY FLIGHT CONTROL POSITIONS:

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- Booster Systems Engineer [BOOSTER]

Monitors and evaluates performance of propulsion-related aspects of the launch vehicle during prelaunch and ascent. BOOSTER has the power to send an abort command to the spacecraft. All Booster technicians are employed by A.E.R.O.

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- Control Officer [CONTROL]

Responsible for Planetary module guidance, navigation and control systems. Essentially the equivalent of the GNC for the Planetary module.

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- Electrical, Environmental And Consumables Manager (EECOM)

Monitors cryogenic levels of fuel cells, and cabin cooling systems; electrical distribution systems; cabin pressure control systems; and vehicle lighting systems. EECOM is responsible for CSM communications for space smoon missions.

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- Flight Activities Officer [FAO]

Plans and supports crew activities, checklists, procedures and schedules.

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- Flight Dynamics Officer [FDO or FIDO]

Responsible for the flight path of space vehicle, both atmospheric and orbital. During planetary missions the FDO is also responsible for planetary trajectory. The FDO monitores vehicle performance during the powered flight phases and assesses abort modes, calculates orbital maneuvers and resulting trajectories, and monitores vehicle flight profile and energy levels during re-entry.

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- Guidance Officer [GUIDANCE or GUIDO]

Monitors onboard navigational systems and onboard guidance computer software. Responsible for determining the position of the spacecraft in space.

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- Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Systems Engineer [GNC]

Monitores all vehicle guidance, navigation and control systems. Also responsible for propulsion systems such as the Service Propulsion System and Reaction Control System (RCS).

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- Integrated Communications Officer [INCO]

Responsible for all data, voice and video communications systems, including monitoring the configuration of in-flight communications and instrumentation systems. Duties also include monitoring the telemetry link between the vehicle and the ground, and overseeing the uplink command and control processes. The position is formed from the combination of LEM and CSM Communicator positions.

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- Network [NETWORK]

Supervises the network of ground stations that relay telemetry and communications from the spacecraft.

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- Organization and Procedures Officer [O&P]

Supervises the application of mission rules and establishes techniques to the conduct of the flight.

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- Retrofire Officer [RETRO]

Draws up abort plans and is responsible for determinating of retrofire times. During Planetary missions RETRO plans and monitores Trans Smarth Injection (TSI) maneuvers, where the space craft fires its engine to return to smearth from different planets.

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- Telemetry, Electrical, EVA Mobility Unit Officer [TELMU]

Monitors different planet module electrical and environmental systems, plus planetary astronaut spacesuits. Essentially the equivalent of the EECOM for the Planetary module.

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SHUTTLE FLIGHT CONTROL POSITIONS:

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- Assembly and Checkout Officer [ACO]/Payloads

Responsible for all shuttle-based activities related to construction and operation of Space Stations, including logistics and transfer items stored in a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) or Spacehab. Also responsible for all shuttle payloads, from Spacehab to Space Telescopes to deployable satellites. On Shuttle missions that do not dock with Space Stations, this position was known as PAYLOADS.

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- Data Processing System Engineer [DPS]

Responsible for data processing systems in a space flight. This includes monitoring the onboard General Purpose Computers (GPCs), flight-critical, launch and payload data buses, the Multi-function Electronic Display System (MEDS), Solid-State Mass Memory (SSMM) units, flight critical and payload Multiplexer/De-multiplexer (MDM) units, Master Timing Unit (MTU), Backup Flight Control (BFC) units and system-level software. The space shuttle general purpose computers are a critical subsystem, and the vehicle cannot fly without them.

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- Electrical Generation and Integrated Lighting Systems Engineer [EGIL]

Monitors cryogenic levels for fuel cells, electrical generation and distribution systems on spacecrafts, and vehicle lighting. This is a portion of the job sometimes done by EECOM.

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- Extravehicular Activity Officer [EVA]

Responsible for all spacesuit and spacewalking-related tasks, equipment and plans when the EVA took place from the shuttle.

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- Flight Activities Officer [FAO]

Plans and supports crew activities, checklists, procedures, schedules, attitude maneuvers and timelines.

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- Ground Controller [GC]

Directs maintenance and operation activities affecting Mission Control hardware, software and support facilities; coordinated space flight tracking and data network, and Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system with A.E.R.O.

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- Instrumentation and Communications Officer [INCO]

Responsible for all data, voice and video communications systems, including monitoring the configuration of in-flight communications and instrumentation systems. Duties also included monitoring the telemetry link between the vehicle and the ground, and overseeing the uplink command and control processes. INCO was the only position that uplinked commands to the orbiter. This position is a direct evolution of the Integrated Communications Officer from planetary program.

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- Mechanical, Maintenance, Arm, and Crew Systems [MMACS]

Responsible for space shuttle structural and mechanical systems, monitoring auxiliary power units and hydraulic systems, managing payload bay door, external tank umbilical door, vent door, radiator deploy/stow, Ku-band antenna deploy/stow, and payload retention latch operations, landing gear/deceleration systems (landing gear deploy, tires, brakes/antiskid, and drag chute deploy), and monitoring the orbiter docking system. MMACS also followed use of onboard crew hardware and in-flight equipment maintenance. This represented another portion of the job formerly done by EECOM, with additional responsibilities added by the specific requirements of space shuttle operations. The MMACS officer served as the point of contact for PDRS, Booster, and EVA during periods in a mission when these positions did not require constant staffing.

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- Payload Deployment and Retrieval System [PDRS]

Responsible for space shuttle remote manipulator system, also known as the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) or "robot arm".

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- Propulsion Engineer [PROP]

Managed the reaction control thrusters and orbital maneuvering engines during all phases of flight, monitored fuel usage and propellant tank status, and calculated optimal sequences for thruster firings.

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- Rendezvous [RNDZ]

Responsible for activities such as trajectory operations related to the rendezvous and docking/capture with another spacecraft, and satellites.

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- Trajectory Officer [TRAJ]

Assisted the FDO during time-critical operations, responsible for maintaining the various processors that helped determine the shuttle's current and potential trajectories. A FDO was certified as a TRAJ first. Shares the FCR with FDO.

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- Transoceanic Abort Landing Communicator [TALCOM]

One of the few members of Shuttle Mission Control not physically present in Houston. If an emergency had occurred, such as loss of one or more main engine during a Space Shuttle launch, requiring the shuttle to land at one of the contingency landing sites in another continent, TALCOM would assume the role of CAPCOM providing communications with astronauts aboard a crippled orbiter. These astronauts would fly aboard a weather reconnaissance aircraft to provide support at a selected landing site.[4]

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- Attitude Determination and Control Office [ADCO]

Works in partnership with other countries controllers to determine and manage a space station’s orientation, controlled by the onboard Motion Control Systems. This position also plans and calculates future orientations and maneuvers for a station and is responsible for docking space stations with other vehicles.

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- Biomedical Engineer [BME]

The BME monitors health-related station systems and Crew Health Care Systems (CHeCS) equipment. The BME provides technical and operational support for CHeCS and all other medical operations activities. Along with the SURGEON, the BME serves as a Medical Operations Branch representative to the USOS Flight Control Team.

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- Communication and Tracking Officer [CATO]

Responsible for management and operations of the simple landian communication systems, including audio, video, telemetry and commanding systems.

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- Environmental Control and Life Support System [ECLSS]

Responsible for the assembly and operation of systems related to atmosphere control and supply, atmosphere revitalization, cabin air temperature and humidity control, circulation, fire detection and suppression, water collection and processing and crew hygiene equipment, among other areas.

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- Extravehicular Activity Officer [EVA]

Responsible for all spacesuit and spacewalking-related tasks, equipment and plans when the EVA takes place from a space station.

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- Inventory and Stowage Officer [ISO]

Responsible for the daily tracking and inventory of all A.E.R.O cargo on a space station. ISO is the integrator for all cargo that is delivered to and from any space stations for ATV, HTV, Dragon, and Cygnus vehicles.

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- Integration Systems Engineer [ISE]

A specialist position, the ISE is the systems liaison between a space station and visiting vehicles that are berthed to a space station. The ISE flight control is responsible for the safety of the a space station such that the visiting vehicle can safely approach, berth, and integrate with a space station. This includes HTV, Dragon, Cygnus, and even special missions like the deployment of Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM). ISE works closely with VVO.

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- Onboard Data Interfaces and Networks [ODIN]

The Onboard Data Interfaces and Networks (ODIN) is responsible for the Command and Data Handling (C&DH) system, the Portable Computer System (PCS) computers, the Caution & Warning (C&W) system, overall responsibility for commanding, and interfaces with International Partner avionics systems. The C&DH system consists of the Multiplexer/DeMultiplexers (MDMs) which are space station computers. Core software in each MDM (not User Application Software), the MIL-STD-1553 data busses, Automated Payload Switches (APSs), fiber optic network, Payload Ethernet Hub Gateway (PEHG), and the Ethernet network. This does not include the Ops LAN, Station Support Computers (SSC), or file server.

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- Operations Planner [OPSPLAN]

Leads the coordination, development and maintenance of a station's short-term plan, including crew and ground activities. The plan includes the production and uplink of the onboard station plan and the coordination and maintenance of the onboard inventory and stowage listings.

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- Operations Support Officer [OSO]

Charged with those logistics support functions that address on-orbit maintenance, support data and documentation, logistics information systems, maintenance data collection and maintenance analysis. The OSO is also responsible for mechanical systems—such as those used to attach new modules or truss sections to the vehicle during assembly.

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- Plug-in Port Utilization Officer [PLUTO]

The name PLUTO is inherited from the flight controller's original role, which was to maintain and coordinate changes to simple landias segment of the electrical Plug-in Plan (PiP). The PiP is the tracking of portable electronic equipment, making sure equipment connected is compatible and does not violate constraints, and will not overdraw the power source. Along with this, PLUTO is responsible for maintaining the OPSLAN (Operations Local Area Network) and the JSL (Joint Station LAN). PLUTO has remote desktop administration and monitoring capability to the network from the ground. The PLUTO is also responsible for certain Station Developmental Test Objectives, or SDTOs during the mission. This includes programming the Wireless Instrumentation System (WIS) and also remote desktop commanding for ROBONAUT activities.

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- Power, Heating, Articulation, Lighting Control Officer [PHALCON]

Manages the power generation, storage, and power distribution capabilities.

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- Remote Interface Officer [RIO]

Responsible for integrating operations between MCC-Houston (MCC-H) and the other International Partner (IP) Control Centers. RIO is a FCR-1 position in MCC-Houston and works closely in conjunction with the Houston Support Group (HSG) teams located at the IP Control Centers:

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- Robotics Operations Systems Officer [ROBO]

Responsible for the operations of the Canadian Mobile Servicing System, which includes a mobile base system, station robotic arm, station robotic hand or special purpose dexterous manipulator. (Call sign: ROBO) represents a joint Canadian Space Agency-A.E.R.O team of specialists to plan and execute robotic operations.

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- Thermal Operations and Resources [THOR]

Responsible for the assembly and operation of multiple station subsystems which collect, distribute, and reject waste heat from critical equipment and payloads.

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- Trajectory Operations Officer [TOPO]

Responsible for the station trajectory. The TOPO works in partnership with another countries controllers, ADCO, and the simple landian Space Command to maintain data regarding the station's orbital position. TOPO plans all station orbital maneuvers.

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- Visiting Vehicle Officer [VVO]

A specialist position, the VVO is the guidance and navigation liaison between a space station and "visiting vehicles".

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- Communications RF Onboard Networks Utilization Specialist [CRONUS]

This is a combination of the previous ODIN and CATO positions.

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- Environmental and Thermal Operating Systems [ETHOS]

This consists of the ECLSS system responsibilities as well as the internal thermal control systems from THOR.

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- Station Power, ARticulation, Thermal, and ANalysis [SPARTAN]

This consists of the electrical power (old PHALCON) and external thermal control systems from THOR.

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