Leveraging Physics and Systems Engineering to Ensure Space Mission Success: An Interview with Jessica Tucker

An interview with Jessica Tucker. Jessica  is a senior associate in systems engineering at Beca Applied Technologies, a consulting company focused on high-assurance systems and software engineering in defence and aerospace.Jessica has BS and MS degrees in Physics and has almost twenty years experience in aerospace. Prior to arriving in New Zealand she spent a long career working on compliance and certification at the Aerospace Corporation in California, USA. In this interview, we are going to ask her about her career trajectory as a physicist turned systems engineer, and the fascinating space missions and projects she has been involved in for almost two decades from the Delta Rocket Series to working with Beca .Resources:Upcoming events:Royal Aeronautical Society Symposium - 18 Feb 2022New Zealand Aerospace Summit 2022International Council on Systems EngineeringInternational Council Systems Engineering Handbook  (INCOSE)Hosted by: Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom, Co-Founder and CEO, SpaceBaseMusic: reCreation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons (3.0)If you like our work, please consider donating to SpaceBase through The Gift Trust or RSF Social Finance (for US charitable donations) and indicate "SpaceBase" gift account.Support the show through Patreon.  Support the show