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• rev: 21 September 2018

Spring 2019

What could the Space Sector offer your students? (and it’s not all rocket science)

Kathie BowdenPoint of Contact for Skills and Careers, UK Space Agency

The UK’s world leading satellite industry and wider space sector:

- Total sector income of £14.8 billion

- Employs 41,900 people

- Exceptionally highly skilled and productive

- 5.1% of the global space economy

- Classed as critical national infrastructure

- Supports wider activities worth an estimated £300bn of wider UK GDP

- At the heart of ground breaking space science, discovery and technical innovation

Space is a UK success story

We will launch satellites from the UK in the next few years

We have plans to build new structures in space and begin greater human exploration to the moon and beyond

We are only just understanding the potential of space to positively influence daily life and deal with issues like climate change

The commercial opportunities are huge

It is an exciting time to have a career in Space (especially in the UK)

What does working in space actually mean?Exploring, Discovering and Understanding – our planet, the galaxy, the universe

Building – satellites, sensors, launchers

Designing – new technology, infrastructure

Improving – the lives of others by creating apps and growing businesses

Helping – by providing better information and solutions to real world problems

Communicating – using space in art, photography, literature, the media

Teaching – building sector capacity

Making policy and law

Physics

Chemistry

Computing

Geography

Biology

Maths

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Mechanical Engineer

Electrical Engineer

Systems Engineer

Design Engineer

Production Engineer

Software Engineer

Systems Engineer

Systems Designer

Test and

Commissioning

Engineer

Software Architect

Propulsion Engineer

Propulsion Specialist

Radiation Engineer

Payload Engineer

Physicist

Space Scientist

Astrophysicist

Meteorologist

Project Manager

Legal Advisor

Policy Advisor

Business

Development

Communications

Human Resources

Data Scientist

Earth observation

specialist

Data Modeller

Communications

Engineer

Quality Control

Engineer

Product Assurance

Quality Assurance

Manager

Trainer specialist

Security Professional

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• Exploring, Discovering and Understanding –our planet, the galaxy, the universe

Using different types of instrument to give us different types of information1. Optical sensors2. Microwave sensors3. Altimeters4. Atmospheric sensors

© GES - Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd.

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Building – satellites, sensors, launchersDesigning – new technology, infrastructure

Improving – the lives of others by creating apps and growing businessesHelping – by providing better information and solutions to real world problems

✓ Weather forecasting

✓ Management of wildlife and biodiversity

✓ Managing natural resources and changing use of land – deforestation, freshwater etc.

✓ Response to disasters – wild fires, floods, earthquakes, land slides, tsunamis etc.

✓ Monitoring climate change

• Communicating – using space in art, photography, literature, the media

• Teaching – building sector capacity

• Making policy and law

So why might your students be interested in the

sector?

• It is the future and it MIGHT be rocket science

• The skills you develop will take you anywhere.

• There are great prospects – lots of growth 30,000 new jobs projected just in the next few years

• Great earning potential

• Exploration and Travel – it is very international

• It is many sectors within one sector – there is something for everyone

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Top Tips

Placements make a huge difference

Explore different routes to work.

Acquire language skills and cultural understanding

Get Competitive – eg MissionX, CanSat, SateLife Challenge, ESA’s many competitions

CV - Illustrate breadth of skills – take advice

Talk to people, network, keep in touch, get involved

Investigate UKSEDS http://ukseds.org/