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 - for fast-growth commercial space...
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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 right engineer comes through, 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 proposed slashing the agency's funding...
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 aren't enough engineers. The pipeline...
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How to Build a Cleared Engineering Team From Scratch in the Space Sector
When a commercial space company wins its first classified contract, the excitement doesn't last long. Pretty quickly, someone asks the...
$31 Billion in 30 Days: What Space and Defense Funding Tells Us About Who’s Hiring Next
In March 2026, the space and defense sector saw a concentration of capital that would have been unthinkable five years...
Starship V3 Launches Next Week. Here’s What It Means Beyond the Spectacle
SpaceX is aiming for May 19 for the first flight of Starship Version 3 - a bigger, more powerful version...
Hybrid, Remote, or On-Site: What Space Companies Are Actually Offering in 2026
There's a common assumption in the space sector: because the work involves hardware, everything is onsite. Candidates assume it. Companies...
The US Just Created a Licensing Path for Satellite Servicing, Debris Removal, and In-Space Manufacturing. Here’s What That Means for Hiring.
The Department of Commerce just released a draft licensing framework for commercial space activities that have never had a clear...
The Broadband Space Race Just Got a Second Lane – and It Needs Thousands of Engineers
Last week, an Ariane 6 rocket launched 32 Amazon Leo satellites into low Earth orbit from French Guiana. It was...
Golden Dome’s $3.2B Talent Bet: What Happens If Space-Based Interceptors Don’t Move Forward?
In the space of a few weeks, Golden Dome sent two very different messages. First, the Space Force handed $3.2 billion...
Why Space Companies Hire for the Role They Need Today and Lose the Person in 12 Months
There's a pattern that shows up regularly across growth-stage space companies, and it rarely gets diagnosed correctly. A company hires a...
Where Space Finds Its People: EVONA Rebrands for the Next Era of the Space Economy
EVONA, the specialist talent partner to the space industry, has launched a new brand identity under the tagline "Where Space...