Domain 10
Space
Develop responsible orbital and planetary infrastructure for science, communications, exploration, settlement, resource use, industry, planetary protection, and the long-term flourishing of life.
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A curated, non-exhaustive list of established, transforming, and emerging roles. Select a career for a short summary — full career records are added over time.
Space Strategy, Leadership, and Institutional Design
#1
Space Systems Architect
Designs integrated space systems by connecting vehicles, habitats, power, communications, logistics, robotics, people, safety, and governance.
#2
Chief Space Programs Officer
Guides an organization’s long-term space strategy, investments, partnerships, workforce, risk, and mission priorities.
#3
Space Program Manager
Coordinates mission goals, engineering, budgets, schedules, contracts, safety, stakeholders, and operations across complex space programs.
#4
Space Portfolio Strategist
Balances launch, spacecraft, science, infrastructure, settlements, services, and public-benefit investments across many missions.
#5
Space Infrastructure Planner
Plans the phased development of launch sites, orbital platforms, lunar or planetary utilities, logistics, communications, and settlements.
#6
Space Capability Readiness Assessor
Determines whether organizations possess the engineering, facilities, suppliers, workforce, governance, and safety maturity needed for a space mission.
#7
Space Public-Interest Strategist
Ensures space programs produce scientific, environmental, economic, humanitarian, and civilizational benefits beyond narrow institutional interests.
#8
Space Partnership and Consortium Director
Builds durable cooperation among governments, companies, universities, nonprofits, communities, and international institutions.
#9
Space Technology Foresight Analyst
Studies technical, economic, political, ecological, and social changes that could reshape human activity beyond Earth.
#10
Space Stewardship Executive
Holds senior responsibility for peaceful use, environmental care, safety, human dignity, and long-term flourishing in space development.
Mission Architecture, Systems Engineering, and Mission Assurance
#11
Space Mission Architect
Designs complete mission concepts including objectives, trajectories, vehicles, payloads, operations, infrastructure, risk, and end-of-life plans.
#12
Space Systems Engineer
Coordinates requirements, interfaces, verification, tradeoffs, and lifecycle decisions across every subsystem of a space mission.
#13
Mission Design Engineer
Develops mission sequences, timelines, operational concepts, resource budgets, contingencies, and performance analyses.
#14
Space Requirements Engineer
Translates scientific, commercial, human, and public goals into testable technical and operational requirements.
#15
Space Mission Assurance Engineer
Builds evidence that spacecraft, launch systems, software, suppliers, and operations are sufficiently reliable and safe.
#16
Space Verification and Validation Engineer
Plans and executes analysis, inspection, testing, simulation, and demonstration to prove mission systems meet requirements.
#17
Space Reliability Engineer
Predicts and reduces failures across hardware, software, operations, environments, and long-duration mission lifecycles.
#18
Space Fault Management Engineer
Designs detection, isolation, recovery, redundancy, safe modes, and human response for spacecraft failures.
#19
Space Configuration and Change Manager
Controls approved designs, software, documents, hardware versions, interfaces, and mission changes across distributed teams.
#20
Space Risk and Opportunity Analyst
Evaluates technical, schedule, financial, environmental, safety, and strategic uncertainties while identifying beneficial alternatives.
Astronauts, Crew Operations, and Human Missions
#21
Astronaut
Conducts exploration, science, maintenance, construction, operations, education, and emergency duties in space under demanding physical and psychological conditions.
#22
Mission Commander
Leads crew decisions, mission execution, safety, communication, teamwork, and emergency response during human spaceflight.
#23
Spacecraft Pilot
Operates crewed spacecraft through launch, orbit, rendezvous, docking, landing, and contingency situations.
#24
Mission Specialist
Performs specialized scientific, engineering, medical, construction, robotic, or operational work during human missions.
#25
Spacewalk Operations Specialist
Plans and performs extravehicular activity for assembly, repair, inspection, science, and emergency intervention.
#26
Astronaut Training Officer
Prepares crews in spacecraft systems, mission procedures, survival, robotics, science, medicine, teamwork, and emergency response.
#27
Crew Operations Planner
Builds daily schedules that balance mission tasks, maintenance, exercise, sleep, food, communication, and unexpected events.
#28
Human Spaceflight Procedures Engineer
Writes, tests, and improves clear operational procedures for nominal and emergency crew activities.
#29
Space Crew Resource Management Instructor
Trains crews in communication, leadership, workload, conflict resolution, situational awareness, and decision-making.
#30
Long-Duration Mission Crew Coordinator
Supports selection, preparation, family communication, reintegration, continuity, and well-being for extended missions.
Launch Vehicle Engineering and Propulsion
#31
Launch Vehicle Systems Engineer
Integrates propulsion, structures, avionics, guidance, thermal protection, separation, payloads, and ground interfaces into complete launch vehicles.
#32
Rocket Propulsion Engineer
Designs and tests engines, combustion systems, turbomachinery, injectors, feed systems, and performance for space launch.
#33
Electric Propulsion Engineer
Develops ion, Hall-effect, plasma, and other high-efficiency propulsion systems for long-duration spacecraft movement.
#34
Nuclear Space Propulsion Engineer
Develops nuclear thermal or electric propulsion under strict safety, security, environmental, and governance controls.
#35
Launch Vehicle Structural Engineer
Designs tanks, stages, interstages, fairings, mounts, and load paths that survive launch forces and thermal environments.
#36
Cryogenic Propellant Systems Engineer
Designs storage, conditioning, transfer, insulation, valves, and safety systems for extremely cold rocket propellants.
#37
Reusable Launch Systems Engineer
Develops vehicles, thermal protection, landing systems, inspection methods, and refurbishment processes for repeated flight.
#38
Launch Vehicle Avionics Engineer
Designs flight computers, sensors, power, communications, data handling, timing, and fault-tolerant electronics for rockets.
#39
Launch Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer
Develops algorithms that steer launch vehicles along safe and accurate trajectories despite uncertainty and disturbances.
#40
Launch Vehicle Manufacturing Engineer
Designs production, assembly, inspection, traceability, tooling, automation, and quality systems for launch hardware.
Launch Operations, Spaceports, and Range Safety
#41
Launch Operations Director
Coordinates the people, vehicles, payloads, facilities, weather, safety, countdown, and recovery activities required for launch.
#42
Launch Conductor
Directs countdown procedures, readiness checks, holds, communications, and the final authorization sequence before launch.
#43
Spaceport Operations Manager
Runs launch and landing facilities, ground systems, logistics, security, emergency services, utilities, and public interfaces.
#44
Launch Range Safety Officer
Protects the public, personnel, property, airspace, waterways, and environment during launch and reentry operations.
#45
Launch Weather Officer
Analyzes atmospheric, lightning, wind, cloud, ocean, and space-weather conditions affecting launch safety and performance.
#46
Payload Integration Engineer
Connects satellites, spacecraft, cargo, interfaces, testing, documentation, and schedules with the launch vehicle and ground systems.
#47
Launch Pad Systems Engineer
Designs and maintains towers, mounts, fueling, power, communications, cooling, access, and protective systems at launch sites.
#48
Launch Ground Support Equipment Technician
Operates and maintains fueling, lifting, transport, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and environmental support equipment.
#49
Launch Recovery Operations Specialist
Coordinates recovery of reusable stages, capsules, fairings, crews, and hardware on land or sea.
#50
Spaceport Environmental Compliance Specialist
Manages noise, emissions, habitat, water, debris, hazardous materials, and community obligations around launch facilities.
Spacecraft Design, Avionics, and Flight Systems
#51
Spacecraft Systems Engineer
Integrates structure, power, thermal control, propulsion, avionics, communications, payloads, software, and operations into a functioning spacecraft.
#52
Spacecraft Mechanical Engineer
Designs structures, mechanisms, deployment systems, enclosures, mounts, and interfaces for launch and space environments.
#53
Spacecraft Electrical Power Engineer
Designs generation, storage, conversion, distribution, protection, and monitoring systems for spacecraft electricity.
#54
Spacecraft Thermal Control Engineer
Manages heat through insulation, radiators, heaters, coatings, fluids, phase-change materials, and operational strategies.
#55
Spacecraft Avionics Engineer
Develops flight computers, data buses, sensors, timing, power electronics, and fault-tolerant onboard electronics.
#56
Spacecraft Flight Software Engineer
Builds onboard software for control, sequencing, autonomy, communication, health management, and payload operations.
#57
Spacecraft Mechanisms Engineer
Designs doors, hinges, latches, booms, antennas, solar arrays, docking systems, and other moving spacecraft hardware.
#58
Spacecraft Materials Engineer
Selects and develops materials that survive vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, atomic oxygen, dust, vibration, and long service.
#59
Spacecraft Contamination Control Engineer
Prevents particles, films, biological material, and chemical residues from harming instruments, surfaces, crews, or planetary environments.
#60
Spacecraft Assembly, Integration, and Test Engineer
Coordinates cleanroom assembly, inspections, functional tests, environmental tests, troubleshooting, and final flight readiness.
Satellite Engineering, Payloads, and Mission Operations
#61
Satellite Systems Engineer
Designs and integrates satellites for communications, navigation, observation, weather, science, or specialized missions.
#62
Satellite Payload Engineer
Develops instruments, antennas, processors, sensors, and mission-specific equipment carried by satellites.
#63
Earth Observation Instrument Engineer
Designs optical, infrared, radar, atmospheric, ocean, and environmental sensors that observe Earth from space.
#64
Satellite Communications Payload Engineer
Builds transponders, phased arrays, processors, amplifiers, and links that provide communications services from orbit.
#65
Satellite Operations Engineer
Commands spacecraft, monitors health, plans activities, analyzes anomalies, and maintains safe mission operation.
#66
Satellite Flight Controller
Executes real-time commands, monitors telemetry, coordinates procedures, and responds to unexpected spacecraft behavior.
#67
Satellite Constellation Operations Manager
Coordinates large fleets of satellites, ground stations, coverage, capacity, maneuvers, maintenance, and end-of-life disposal.
#68
Satellite Orbit Analyst
Determines, predicts, and refines orbital position, lifetime, maneuver needs, and collision risk.
#69
Satellite Anomaly Resolution Engineer
Investigates unexpected behavior, reconstructs causes, develops recovery plans, and improves future system resilience.
#70
Satellite End-of-Life and Disposal Planner
Ensures spacecraft are safely deorbited, moved to disposal orbits, passivated, recycled, or otherwise retired responsibly.
Orbital Transportation, Rendezvous, Docking, and Refueling
#71
Orbital Transportation Systems Engineer
Designs vehicles and operations that move crews, cargo, fuel, and equipment among orbital and planetary destinations.
#72
Orbital Mechanics Engineer
Calculates trajectories, transfers, rendezvous, stationkeeping, gravity assists, and mission opportunities across space.
#73
Rendezvous and Docking Engineer
Develops sensors, guidance, mechanisms, procedures, and safety logic for spacecraft approaching and connecting.
#74
Orbital Transfer Vehicle Engineer
Designs reusable spacecraft that move payloads between orbits, stations, depots, and deep-space departure points.
#75
In-Space Propellant Transfer Engineer
Designs and validates storage, fluid transfer, metering, docking, thermal control, and contamination safeguards for orbital refueling.
#76
Orbital Fuel Depot Operations Manager
Coordinates propellant production, receipt, storage, certification, transfer, inventory, safety, and customer scheduling.
#77
Space Cargo Integration Specialist
Plans packaging, restraints, interfaces, mass, volume, loading, transfer, tracking, and delivery for orbital and planetary cargo.
#78
Crew Transfer Vehicle Engineer
Designs safe spacecraft for moving people between Earth, stations, lunar orbit, and other destinations.
#79
Orbital Tug Operations Specialist
Plans and supervises robotic vehicles that relocate satellites, cargo, debris, and infrastructure in space.
#80
Interplanetary Trajectory Designer
Develops efficient, resilient routes for missions among planets, moons, asteroids, stations, and settlements.
Space Stations, Habitats, and Settlement Architecture
#81
Space Habitat Architect
Designs living and working environments that support safety, privacy, community, work, rest, worship, recreation, and psychological health.
#82
Orbital Station Systems Engineer
Integrates structure, life support, power, thermal control, docking, communications, laboratories, robotics, and crew operations.
#83
Pressurized Module Engineer
Designs airtight structures, hatches, windows, penetrations, pressure vessels, and interior systems for space habitats.
#84
Space Habitat Interior Designer
Creates functional, humane interiors for sleeping, eating, work, hygiene, care, storage, exercise, and social life.
#85
Space Settlement Urban Planner
Plans neighborhoods, utilities, mobility, agriculture, industry, public spaces, safety, governance, and future growth beyond Earth.
#86
Lunar Habitat Engineer
Designs surface habitats for vacuum, radiation, dust, thermal extremes, low gravity, limited supplies, and local construction.
#87
Martian Habitat Engineer
Designs settlements for radiation, dust, cold, atmospheric pressure, isolation, local resources, and long-duration human life on Mars.
#88
Rotating Habitat Dynamics Engineer
Develops rotating structures that provide artificial gravity while controlling vibration, balance, docking, and human comfort.
#89
Space Habitat Commissioning Engineer
Verifies that structure, air, water, power, thermal, communication, safety, and human systems function before occupancy.
#90
Space Settlement Facilities Manager
Coordinates maintenance, utilities, occupancy, safety, stores, repairs, cleaning, and lifecycle care of extraterrestrial facilities.
Closed-Loop Life Support, Water, Waste, and Circular Systems
#91
Environmental Control and Life Support Engineer
Designs systems that maintain breathable air, pressure, temperature, humidity, water, sanitation, and waste processing.
#92
Closed-Loop Life Support Systems Engineer
Integrates biological, chemical, mechanical, and physical processes that continually recycle essential resources in isolated habitats.
#93
Space Water Recovery Engineer
Develops systems that collect, purify, monitor, store, and reuse water from humidity, hygiene, urine, waste, and local sources.
#94
Space Air Revitalization Engineer
Controls oxygen, carbon dioxide, trace contaminants, pressure, particulates, microbes, and atmospheric circulation.
#95
Space Waste Processing Engineer
Converts human, biological, packaging, industrial, and maintenance waste into safe outputs, recovered materials, nutrients, or energy.
#96
Bioregenerative Life Support Scientist
Develops living systems using plants, algae, microbes, and ecological processes to support air, water, food, and waste cycles.
#97
Habitat Microbial Ecology Specialist
Studies and manages beneficial and harmful microbial communities in closed human environments.
#98
Life Support Operations Technician
Monitors, samples, maintains, repairs, and records daily performance of air, water, waste, and pressure systems.
#99
Closed-Loop Systems Reliability Engineer
Prevents cascading failures across interdependent air, water, food, waste, power, and thermal systems.
#100
Space Circular Resource Steward
Tracks material flows and improves reuse, repair, recovery, substitution, and conservation across a settlement.
Space Medicine, Health, and Human Performance
#101
Space Medicine Physician
Prevents, diagnoses, and treats health problems caused or complicated by microgravity, radiation, isolation, altered cycles, and remote care.
#102
Flight Surgeon
Provides medical oversight, crew selection, mission support, emergency planning, and clinical decision-making for human spaceflight.
#103
Space Nurse
Provides preventive, emergency, chronic, recovery, and daily health support for crews in isolated space environments.
#104
Space Medical Operations Specialist
Coordinates medical equipment, supplies, procedures, records, training, consultation, and evacuation planning.
#105
Space Physiologist
Studies how microgravity, partial gravity, pressure, radiation, confinement, and workload affect human body systems.
#106
Space Radiation Health Scientist
Measures biological radiation risks and develops exposure limits, monitoring, shielding, prevention, and treatment strategies.
#107
Space Behavioral Health Psychologist
Supports mental health, adaptation, relationships, conflict management, stress, grief, isolation, and reintegration.
#108
Space Exercise and Countermeasure Specialist
Designs exercise, loading, nutrition, medication, and monitoring programs that preserve bone, muscle, cardiovascular, and neurological health.
#109
Remote Space Medical Systems Engineer
Develops compact diagnostics, imaging, surgery support, telemedicine, decision aids, and autonomous care technologies.
#110
Space Health Ethics Specialist
Addresses consent, selection, privacy, reproductive health, medical risk, disability, triage, and duty of care in remote settlements.
Space Agriculture, Food, and Biological Production
#111
Space Agriculture Scientist
Develops reliable food and biological production under microgravity, partial gravity, radiation, limited water, and closed-loop conditions.
#112
Controlled-Environment Space Farm Engineer
Designs lighting, irrigation, nutrients, atmosphere, structures, automation, and energy systems for extraterrestrial farming.
#113
Space Crop Physiologist
Studies plant growth, roots, pollination, reproduction, nutrition, disease, and stress beyond Earth.
#114
Space Horticulture Technician
Plants, monitors, pollinates, harvests, cleans, and maintains crops in orbital or planetary facilities.
#115
Space Food Systems Engineer
Designs safe, nutritious, appealing, compact, long-life, and culturally meaningful food systems for crews and settlements.
#116
Space Food Safety Specialist
Controls contamination, allergens, spoilage, microbial risks, storage, processing, and traceability in closed environments.
#117
Space Fermentation Scientist
Uses microbes to produce food, nutrients, medicines, materials, and useful chemicals from limited resources.
#118
Space Algae and Microbial Production Engineer
Develops compact biological systems for oxygen, nutrition, waste recovery, fuels, and industrial feedstocks.
#119
Extraterrestrial Pollination Systems Specialist
Designs biological, mechanical, and robotic methods for reliable pollination in controlled space agriculture.
#120
Space Food Culture and Culinary Specialist
Creates meals, rituals, flavors, and shared food practices that support health, identity, morale, and community.
Space Power, Energy Storage, and Thermal Utilities
#121
Space Power Systems Engineer
Designs generation, storage, distribution, protection, and control systems for spacecraft, stations, and settlements.
#122
Space Solar Array Engineer
Develops deployable, fixed, tracking, concentrator, and surface solar systems for orbital and planetary use.
#123
Space Nuclear Power Engineer
Designs safe fission systems for long-duration electricity and heat where solar energy is insufficient or intermittent.
#124
Space Energy Storage Engineer
Develops batteries, fuel cells, thermal storage, regenerative systems, and other storage suited to space environments.
#125
Lunar Power Grid Engineer
Designs generation, cables, storage, converters, protection, control, and service priorities across lunar infrastructure.
#126
Planetary Microgrid Operator
Runs local power systems balancing habitats, industry, agriculture, mobility, emergencies, and storage on other worlds.
#127
Wireless Space Power Transmission Engineer
Develops microwave, laser, and optical systems for transmitting energy across spacecraft, surfaces, or shadowed regions.
#128
Space Thermal Utility Engineer
Provides shared heat collection, transport, storage, rejection, and reuse across habitats and industrial facilities.
#129
Space Energy Resource Planner
Forecasts demand and coordinates generation, reserves, maintenance, fuel, expansion, and emergency priorities for settlements.
#130
Space Power Safety and Reliability Engineer
Prevents electrical, battery, radiation, thermal, fire, and cascading failures in life-critical power systems.
Space Communications, Navigation, and Information Infrastructure
#131
Space Communications Engineer
Designs radio, optical, network, antenna, coding, and relay systems for spacecraft and settlements.
#132
Deep-Space Network Engineer
Builds high-sensitivity ground and space infrastructure for reliable communication across planetary distances.
#133
Optical Space Communications Engineer
Develops laser links for high-capacity communication among spacecraft, stations, planetary sites, and Earth.
#134
Space Navigation Systems Engineer
Designs positioning, timing, orbit determination, surface navigation, and guidance infrastructure beyond Earth.
#135
Lunar Communications Network Engineer
Builds surface, orbital, relay, emergency, and navigation networks for lunar operations and settlements.
#136
Interplanetary Network Architect
Designs delay-tolerant routing, identity, storage, replication, security, and local autonomy across distant settlements.
#137
Space Ground Station Engineer
Designs antennas, tracking, radio systems, data processing, timing, power, security, and facilities that communicate with spacecraft.
#138
Space Communications Operations Specialist
Schedules links, monitors performance, resolves interference, routes data, and restores communication during anomalies.
#139
Space Spectrum Coordination Specialist
Coordinates frequencies, interference, international allocations, scientific needs, commercial systems, and future settlement requirements.
#140
Space Information Continuity Architect
Ensures settlements retain essential knowledge, records, software, communications, and local decision capability during prolonged isolation.
In-Space Manufacturing, Assembly, and Industrial Production
#141
In-Space Manufacturing Engineer
Designs production systems that exploit microgravity, vacuum, radiation, local materials, and reduced launch constraints.
#142
Orbital Manufacturing Process Engineer
Develops controlled methods for producing materials, components, medicines, electronics, and structures in orbit.
#143
Microgravity Materials Scientist
Studies how reduced gravity changes crystallization, mixing, solidification, fluid behavior, and material properties.
#144
Space Additive Manufacturing Engineer
Develops three-dimensional printing for parts, tools, structures, medical products, and habitat components beyond Earth.
#145
Orbital Assembly Robotics Engineer
Creates robotic systems that build, connect, inspect, repair, and upgrade large structures in space.
#146
Space Biomanufacturing Engineer
Uses cells, microbes, proteins, and biological processes to produce medicines, food, materials, and chemicals in space.
#147
Space Semiconductor Manufacturing Researcher
Explores whether vacuum, microgravity, local materials, or orbital conditions can improve electronic manufacturing.
#148
In-Space Quality Assurance Engineer
Verifies that products made beyond Earth meet dimensional, material, biological, electrical, and safety requirements.
#149
Orbital Industrial Operations Manager
Coordinates production, crews, robots, raw materials, power, waste, maintenance, quality, and customer delivery.
#150
Space Industrial Ecology Engineer
Connects material, heat, water, waste, energy, and by-product flows among orbital or planetary industries.
Space Construction, Surface Infrastructure, and Civil Engineering
#151
Space Construction Engineer
Designs and builds landing pads, roads, habitats, utilities, laboratories, storage, shelters, and industrial facilities beyond Earth.
#152
Lunar Civil Engineer
Plans foundations, excavation, grading, roads, shielding, drainage, structures, and utility corridors for lunar settlements.
#153
Martian Civil Engineer
Designs infrastructure for Martian soil, dust, cold, atmosphere, water, radiation, low gravity, and settlement growth.
#154
Regolith Construction Engineer
Develops excavation, compaction, sintering, melting, binding, printing, and shielding methods using local planetary soil.
#155
Extraterrestrial Geotechnical Engineer
Studies the bearing, excavation, slope, vibration, dust, and structural behavior of planetary soils and rocks.
#156
Space Landing Zone Engineer
Designs safe landing pads, blast protection, navigation aids, dust controls, traffic areas, and emergency access.
#157
Planetary Utility Corridor Engineer
Designs protected routes for power, communications, fluids, waste, mobility, and maintenance across settlements.
#158
Space Construction Robotics Supervisor
Coordinates autonomous and teleoperated machines, human crews, sequencing, safety, and quality on remote construction sites.
#159
Extraterrestrial Infrastructure Inspector
Uses sensors, robots, models, and field evidence to assess structures, utilities, roads, shielding, and habitat integrity.
#160
Space Infrastructure Maintenance Engineer
Plans and performs repair, renewal, adaptation, inspection, and spare-parts strategies for long-lived settlement assets.
Space Resources, Geology, Mining, and In-Situ Utilization
#161
Planetary Geologist
Studies the origin, composition, structure, history, and resources of planets, moons, asteroids, and other bodies.
#162
Space Resource Prospecting Scientist
Identifies water, ice, metals, gases, regolith, volatiles, and useful minerals through remote sensing and field exploration.
#163
In-Situ Resource Utilization Engineer
Develops systems that transform local extraterrestrial resources into water, oxygen, fuel, metals, ceramics, and construction materials.
#164
Lunar Mining Engineer
Designs responsible excavation, transport, processing, dust control, safety, and restoration systems for lunar resources.
#165
Asteroid Resource Systems Engineer
Develops prospecting, capture, anchoring, extraction, processing, transport, and governance concepts for asteroid materials.
#166
Planetary Drilling Engineer
Designs drilling, coring, sampling, thermal extraction, and subsurface access systems for remote planetary environments.
#167
Space Mineral Processing Engineer
Develops separation, refining, smelting, chemical, thermal, and electrochemical processing of extraterrestrial materials.
#168
Extraterrestrial Resource Environmental Assessor
Evaluates dust, contamination, landscape, scientific, cultural, orbital, and shared-resource impacts before extraction.
#169
Space Resource Rights and Stewardship Specialist
Develops fair rules for access, benefit sharing, conservation, scientific protection, and conflict prevention around extraterrestrial resources.
#170
Space Resource Operations Manager
Coordinates prospecting, extraction, processing, storage, maintenance, safety, logistics, and delivery of local resources.
Planetary Science, Astronomy, Astrobiology, and Planetary Protection
#171
Planetary Scientist
Studies planets, moons, atmospheres, surfaces, interiors, histories, and processes through missions, observations, models, and samples.
#172
Astronomer
Studies stars, galaxies, cosmology, planetary systems, and the physical universe using observations, theory, and computation.
#173
Astrophysicist
Applies physics to understand celestial objects, radiation, gravity, matter, energy, and cosmic evolution.
#174
Astrobiologist
Investigates the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.
#175
Planetary Atmospheres Scientist
Studies weather, chemistry, circulation, climate, escape, dust, and habitability of planetary atmospheres.
#176
Planetary Protection Officer
Prevents harmful biological contamination of celestial bodies, samples, spacecraft, Earth, and future settlements.
#177
Sample Return Containment Scientist
Designs handling, isolation, analysis, sterilization, and release protocols for extraterrestrial materials returned to Earth or habitats.
#178
Exoplanet Scientist
Discovers and characterizes planets around other stars, including atmospheres, formation, environments, and possible habitability.
#179
Space Telescope Instrument Scientist
Designs and operates instruments that observe faint, distant, or otherwise inaccessible features of the universe.
#180
Planetary Scientific Heritage Steward
Protects sites, samples, artifacts, records, and landscapes of exceptional scientific or human significance beyond Earth.
Orbital Debris, Traffic Management, Safety, and Rescue
#181
Space Traffic Management Specialist
Coordinates trajectories, conjunction warnings, maneuver responsibilities, launch windows, and shared orbital safety.
#182
Orbital Debris Analyst
Tracks, models, characterizes, and predicts debris populations, collision risks, fragmentation, and long-term orbital effects.
#183
Active Debris Removal Engineer
Designs capture, towing, deorbiting, relocation, or recycling systems for hazardous orbital objects.
#184
Spacecraft Collision Avoidance Engineer
Assesses conjunctions, uncertainty, maneuver options, mission impacts, and coordination for spacecraft operators.
#185
Orbital Environment Safety Officer
Sets operational limits, reporting, disposal, passivation, maneuver, and evidence requirements that protect shared orbital regions.
#186
Space Rescue Operations Director
Coordinates response to stranded crews, disabled spacecraft, habitat failures, medical emergencies, fires, collisions, and loss of communication.
#187
Space Rescue Vehicle Engineer
Designs rapid-response spacecraft, docking, life support, medical, towing, and recovery systems for emergency missions.
#188
Orbital Fire Safety Engineer
Prevents, detects, contains, extinguishes, and recovers from fires in spacecraft and habitats.
#189
Space Emergency Exercise Designer
Creates simulations and drills that test crews, operators, vehicles, communications, medical systems, and international coordination.
#190
Space Accident Investigator
Independently reconstructs technical, human, organizational, environmental, and governance causes after space accidents or near misses.
Space Weather, Radiation, and Environmental Monitoring
#191
Space Weather Scientist
Studies solar activity, plasma, magnetic fields, radiation, and their effects on technology, crews, Earth, and planetary environments.
#192
Space Weather Forecaster
Provides operational warnings and forecasts for radiation storms, geomagnetic activity, communication disruption, and satellite risk.
#193
Radiation Environment Engineer
Models and measures radiation exposure to spacecraft electronics, materials, habitats, and people.
#194
Space Environmental Observatory Engineer
Builds sensors, networks, spacecraft, and data systems that monitor radiation, debris, plasma, dust, atmospheres, and hazards.
#195
Lunar Dust Mitigation Engineer
Develops coatings, electrostatic systems, seals, cleaning, operations, and design strategies that limit harmful lunar dust.
#196
Martian Dust and Weather Specialist
Studies and forecasts dust storms, winds, temperature, pressure, visibility, and environmental effects on Martian systems.
#197
Space Environmental Data Scientist
Analyzes large observational datasets to identify trends, hazards, anomalies, and long-term environmental change in space.
#198
Planetary Environmental Monitoring Specialist
Tracks human activity, contamination, dust, waste, habitat effects, and protected regions around settlements and industrial sites.
#199
Space Climate and Habitability Modeler
Models long-term atmospheric, radiation, thermal, geological, and biological conditions affecting settlement viability.
#200
Space Environmental Restoration Researcher
Studies whether disturbed extraterrestrial sites can or should be stabilized, remediated, preserved, or restored under responsible stewardship.
Space Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Cybersecurity
#201
Space Software Engineer
Builds onboard, ground, mission-planning, simulation, communication, science, logistics, and settlement software.
#202
Space Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Develops autonomous perception, planning, diagnosis, science, maintenance, logistics, and decision-support systems for remote missions.
#203
Space Robotics Engineer
Designs robotic systems for exploration, construction, maintenance, manufacturing, cargo handling, science, and rescue beyond Earth.
#204
Planetary Rover Autonomy Engineer
Develops navigation, hazard avoidance, planning, manipulation, sampling, and recovery for remote planetary vehicles.
#205
Space Digital Twin Engineer
Creates virtual models of spacecraft, habitats, infrastructure, environments, and operations for testing and maintenance.
#206
Space Mission Simulation Engineer
Builds high-fidelity simulations of vehicles, crews, environments, communications, failures, and mission scenarios.
#207
Space Cybersecurity Engineer
Protects spacecraft, ground stations, communications, commands, software, identities, payloads, and settlement systems from attack.
#208
Spacecraft Command Authentication Engineer
Designs secure identity, authorization, cryptography, key management, and command validation for remote spacecraft control.
#209
Autonomous Space Systems Safety Engineer
Verifies that artificial intelligence and robotic systems remain within authority, safety, resource, and mission constraints.
#210
Interplanetary Computing Infrastructure Architect
Designs local computing, storage, networking, updates, cybersecurity, resilience, and knowledge continuity for distant settlements.
Space Economics, Finance, Insurance, and Commercial Services
#211
Space Economist
Studies markets, public goods, infrastructure, labor, scarcity, competition, investment, externalities, and settlement economies beyond Earth.
#212
Space Infrastructure Finance Specialist
Structures public, private, cooperative, and blended funding for launch, stations, utilities, habitats, and planetary infrastructure.
#213
Space Insurance Underwriter
Evaluates launch, spacecraft, cargo, crew, station, liability, debris, cyber, and infrastructure risk.
#214
Space Mutual Risk Pool Manager
Operates shared risk-protection systems for missions, communities, small operators, and essential infrastructure.
#215
Space Project Cost Engineer
Estimates and controls development, testing, launch, operations, maintenance, logistics, reserves, and lifecycle costs.
#216
Space Commercialization Strategist
Translates scientific and engineering capabilities into legitimate services, products, infrastructure, and public-benefit business models.
#217
Space Cooperative Development Specialist
Creates member-owned enterprises for habitats, transport, robotics, agriculture, energy, and shared services beyond Earth.
#218
Space Contract and Procurement Manager
Coordinates technical requirements, suppliers, pricing, schedules, compliance, intellectual property, and performance obligations.
#219
Space Market Integrity Analyst
Monitors misleading claims, conflicts of interest, market concentration, speculation, unsafe shortcuts, and anti-competitive practices.
#220
Space Settlement Economic Systems Designer
Develops exchange, ownership, labor, shared services, public finance, resource allocation, and safety nets for remote communities.
Space Law, Governance, Diplomacy, and Commons Stewardship
#221
Space Lawyer
Advises on treaties, licensing, liability, contracts, property, safety, resources, environmental duties, and human rights in space.
#222
Space Policy Analyst
Evaluates laws, institutions, incentives, public investments, security, science, industry, access, and long-term societal outcomes.
#223
International Space Diplomacy Specialist
Builds agreements, trust, transparency, crisis communication, scientific cooperation, and conflict-prevention mechanisms among nations.
#224
Space Commons Governance Specialist
Develops shared rules for orbits, frequencies, resources, scientific sites, environmental protection, and peaceful access.
#225
Interplanetary Governance Designer
Creates legitimate institutions for representation, authority, lawmaking, rights, duties, and dispute resolution among distant settlements.
#226
Space Settlement Rights Advocate
Protects civil, labor, privacy, disability, family, health, movement, communication, and due-process rights beyond Earth.
#227
Space Environmental Law Specialist
Develops duties concerning contamination, debris, extraction, scientific heritage, waste, ecosystems, and shared planetary environments.
#228
Space Resource Treaty Specialist
Negotiates rules for access, ownership, licensing, benefit sharing, conservation, and conflict prevention around extraterrestrial resources.
#229
Space Dispute Resolution Mediator
Resolves conflicts among crews, operators, governments, companies, communities, and settlements before escalation.
#230
Space Governance Ethics Advisor
Examines legitimacy, power, coercion, stewardship, representation, intergenerational justice, and human dignity in space institutions.
Education, Culture, Community, and Long-Term Human Flourishing in Space
#231
Space Science Educator
Teaches astronomy, planetary science, engineering, exploration, evidence, and humanity’s place in the universe.
#232
Space Engineering Educator
Prepares learners in spacecraft, launch, habitats, power, robotics, life support, manufacturing, and mission systems.
#233
Space Workforce Pathway Designer
Maps certificates, apprenticeships, technical programs, university degrees, transitions, and lifelong learning across space careers.
#234
Space Apprenticeship Coordinator
Connects learners, employers, mentors, laboratories, launch sites, manufacturers, universities, and paid practical experience.
#235
Space Settlement Teacher
Educates children and adults in remote communities while integrating local environment, practical competence, culture, and connection with Earth.
#236
Space Community Development Specialist
Builds institutions, mutual aid, recreation, care, participation, conflict resolution, and belonging within emerging settlements.
#237
Space Cultural Heritage Curator
Preserves artifacts, records, stories, rituals, art, languages, and memories created through humanity’s expansion beyond Earth.
#238
Space Artist and Experience Designer
Creates art, music, performance, visual culture, and shared experiences that help people interpret life beyond Earth.
#239
Space Chaplain and Spiritual Caregiver
Provides spiritual care, moral reflection, grief support, worship, meaning, and pastoral presence during isolation and settlement life.
#240
Human–Artificial Intelligence Space Civilization Foresight Scholar
Studies how people and artificial intelligence can jointly build wise, peaceful, sustainable, and meaningful societies beyond Earth.