Space’s Defense Boom Comes With a Staffing Problem: What Founders Need to Know
The US Defense Department is beefing up its space capabilities and companies of all sizes are getting in on it. The problem? To deliver on...
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What Separates a Strong Early Space Engineering Hire
Get your first few engineers wrong, and reaching your next funding round gets a lot harder. But the difference between a strong engineer and the...
The #1 Reason Space Startups Lose Top Talent (It’s Not the Search)
Finding skilled talent is as much about what happens after the final interview as it is about finding the talent. When a hire takes longer...
Is Your Space Startup’s Hiring Function Built for Series B?
Most Series A space founders treat their hiring plan as a later problem. Something to sort out once there's enough headcount to justify it. It's...
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What to Consider Before Relocating for a Space Role
Whether you're looking at Long Beach or Hawthorne, relocating for a space role can be career-defining. But this is different...
Can Space Manufacturing Talent Keep Up With NASA’s $600M Lander Deal?
On June 30, 2026, NASA awarded a $600 million deal to three companies to build the next generation of robotic...
Stop Counteroffering and Start Retaining Aerospace Engineers
A counteroffer can't undo the eighteen months that led to a resignation, but it can make an inevitable departure more...
Your First Sales Hire at Series A Isn’t What You’d Expect
At the Seed stage, your pitch deck was your product, and your passion was your sales strategy. You wore every...
Orbital Data Centers Are Creating a New Category of Space Jobs – Here’s Who’s Hiring in 2026
A five-month-old company with six employees just filed with the FCC to launch 100,000 satellites. Not communication satellites, not Earth observation...
The Impossible Space Hire: Is This What’s Holding You Back?
Is it really a talent shortage? Looking for specialized engineering talent? The impossible space hire might be what's holding founders back...
AST SpaceMobile Just Proved That Setbacks Don’t Define a Space Company
Yesterday at 2:39 AM, three AST SpaceMobile satellites launched successfully from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. BlueBirds...
What the Largest IPO Means for the Space Talent Market: Space X
On 12 June, SpaceX went public on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, in the largest IPO in history. It...
Why Space Engineers Leave the Primes for Fast-Growth Companies
There's a move we're seeing a lot of right now: experienced engineers leaving the primes - the large, established players...