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Senior Operations Specialist (Solar Stratospheric Aircraft Mission Planning)

ICEYE·Valencia·Posted 4 November 2026

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ROLE HIGHLIGHTS - Role: Senior Operations Specialist (Solar Stratospheric Aircraft Mission Planning) - Department: HAPS - Location: Valencia, Spain - Working type: On site, with limited remote working - Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required) THE MISSION OF THE SENIOR OPERATIONS SPECIALIST (HAPS MISSION PLANNING) As Senior Operations Specialist (HAPS Mission Planning), you will shape where, when and how ICEYE's stratospheric, solar-powered electric aircraft flies. You will build and maintain the operational weather picture before and during each flight, identify the right windows to launch, fly and recover, and turn weather, airspace, aircraft performance and energy constraints into a safe and achievable mission plan that you keep up to date as conditions evolve. The role is deliberately broad. Beyond mission planning, you will contribute across the Operations team: preparing and executing flight test campaigns, supporting ground control station operations, assessing flight results and feeding them back into the aircraft's development, and helping build the procedures and tools of an operations capability that will scale as…

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