Orbital Analyst

Date Posted:

2026-08-21

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Orbital Analyst

Location: High Wycombe

Permanent

Benefits:

• £: Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

About us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

We have been involved in spaceflight since the world first set its eyes on the final frontier, with a Raytheon radar transmitting Neil Armstrong’s famous “One small step for man” message. As Raytheon UK’s Space business continues to grow, we offer considerable expertise in Space Situational Awareness (SSA), Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Space Surveillance & Tracking (SST), Policy, Risk Management, Orbital Analytics, and Operations

Role & Responsibilities

The Raytheon NORSS team, are looking for an Orbital Analyst to work within its operational Orbital Analyst team, performing Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Domain Awareness (SDA) duties, to support the safety of civil and commercial satellite operations. Working with both national and international government stakeholders, the Orbital Analyst will be responsible for monitoring UK-licenced objects and critical spacecraft and providing timely technical analysis and outputs to support the decision making of key stakeholders.

This role sits within Raytheon UK’s Space & Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) mission area and will report to the Raytheon NORSS Orbital Analyst Operations Lead.

This role involves working at an operational Orbital Analyst centre where day to day duties include but are not limited to; ensuring the safety of UK-licenced and critical spacecraft involved in high-interest events by monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on key space events (such as re-entering objects, collision avoidance activities and fragmentations of objects). This role will also provide the opportunity to develop new astrodynamics software capabilities and analytical tools in support of UK led Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) programmes.

An understanding of astrodynamics and SSA/SST/SDA topics will be required for this role, and the successful candidate will be expected to have programming experience.

This role can either be based from RAF High Wycombe or home with the ability to commute to RAF High Wycombe. Additionally, the successful candidate will occasionally need to travel across the UK to support business and customer needs.

Responsibilities

• As our Orbital Analyst, you will lead and provide technical expertise on Customer programmes, internal Research and Development projects, and contribute to the capture of future opportunities by means of bid-writing and archite