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 Moon landers. It's one piece...
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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 expensive. Retaining aerospace engineers starts long...
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 hat because you had to....
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 satellites, but data centers in...
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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...
Why Space Companies Lose Their Best Candidates at the Offer Stage
A hiring process can do everything right and still lose. The role gets scoped well, the search runs clean, the...
The Hidden Space Talent Pool NASA’s Budget Fight Left Behind
For most of 2025, the question hanging over NASA was how deep the cuts would go. The administration's budget request...
The Space Sector Doesn’t Just Have a Talent Shortage. It Has an Attention Problem.
Ask almost any space company why hiring is hard right now and you'll hear the same phrase: talent shortage. There...
The Hiring Mistake Space Companies Make When They Win Their First Government Contract
A first government contract changes a commercial space company in ways the revenue line doesn't capture. The award validates the...
Golden Dome’s Biggest Winner: SpaceX Just Picked Up $6.45 Billion in Defense Contracts in One Week
In the space of four days, SpaceX picked up two Golden Dome contracts worth a combined $6.45 billion. On May 26,...