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Isaac Llorens

Curriculum Vitae

  • Work History:

    Clyde Space Ltd, The Space Robotics Lab (Japan), GTD (Catalonia, Spain)

  • Current Job:

    Systems Engineer

  • Employer:

    Clyde Space Ltd.

  • About Me

    Proper science and technology geek who thinks Earth is too small

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    I was born in Barcelona and grew up in a town not to far from there. In the past four years I lived in four different countries, nearly two years ago I moved to Glasgow to build very small satellites.

    I love rock and metal music, rock climbing, hiking, science fiction and food.

  • My Work

    Design satellites and make sure they will work in space.

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  • My Typical Day: Have some technical discussion and make sure the satellite does exactly what we planed.

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    Arrive at the office and get everything ready for the day.
    Have a meeting with the team to catch up and decide the day priorities.
    Get started with the real work which can mean pretty much anything in the list below:

    Write documents like satellite manufacturing instructions, reports, space mission concepts …
    Write code.
    Have meetings about project risks and technical issues to decide best course of action.
    Investigate satellite and subsystems issues.
    Qualify a satellite design by testing them in simulated space conditions.
    Design test and experiments to validate and qualify satellite designs.

  • What I'd do with the money

    Get some Arduinos/Raspberry Pi and make some projects with space flavour.

  • My Interview

    • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

      curious, honest and thoughtful

      What's the best thing you've done in your career?

      Help to make space technology more accessible

      Were you ever in trouble at school?

      Not really

      If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?

      A mad scientist

      Who is your favourite singer or band?

      Metallica

      What's your favourite food?

      Churros with chocolate

      What is the most fun thing you've done?

      Go from my home to the capital of Mongolia on a car.

      Tell us a joke.

      There are only 10 types of people in the world: those that understand binary and those that don’t.

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