"What do you do?"

Hello!


Like everyone in the US, I get asked what I do for work a lot and generally people's eyes glaze over about 30 seconds into a description of my job. While the day to day life of a data systems engineer isn't very exciting, the big picture of what we do is pretty neat.

This video was shown today at work and I thought some of you more techy people out there might find the technology we're creating pretty cool. I'm working on the Boeing side of the project, so no exciting trips to the London Headquarters in my future. :(

You can really get a sense of scale for the satellites when they unfurl the solar panels in the manufacturing plant. They always look so small in the pictures, but modern day satellites are huge! I guess when you are making the pictures representative of the satellites in space, most things would look small in comparison.

All of this information is freely available on Inmarsat's website and on YouTube, so you don't have to worry that you're going to have to be killed now that I showed you the video. :)


Hope you have a great weekend!

Rikki