Operations Engineering is the job family responsible for the end-to-end space mission operations including specification, acceptance, exploitation, maintenance of ground infrastructure and ICT systems in support of mission operations and exploitations.
Age-Raymond Riise is an electrical engineer and keeps the ESA tracking station network going.
Academic Background: Electrical Engineer Steffen Dransfeld lets us have a look at the engineering side behind the mission planning and ground systems for Earth observation satellites.
Christoph Steiger studied computer science and speaks about his fascination for operations engineering.