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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Blue Origin’s New Glenn Just Exploded on the Pad. Here’s Why That Doesn’t Mean What You Think.
Last night, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test at Cape Canaveral. The 320-foot rocket erupted...
Where the Space Jobs Are: The US Cities Hiring the Most Space Talent Right Now
If you're thinking about a move into the space sector - or you're a company trying to figure out where...
What the Space Force’s $71.2B Budget Means for Your Career
The White House wants to give the Space Force $71.2 billion next year. That's more than double the $31.6 billion...
The SpaceX IPO Talent Effect: What Happens When 13,000 Engineers Can Finally Cash Out
SpaceX's S-1 filing went public today. For the first time in 24 years, we can see the actual numbers behind...
Vast Just Went From Space Stations to Satellite Buses. Here’s What That Tells You About Where Space Hiring Is Heading
This morning, Vast announced a new product line: high-power satellite buses built for communications, Earth observation, national security, and orbital...
What Space Sector Candidates Ask About Before They’ll Even Take a Call
Something has shifted in how engineers in the US space sector evaluate opportunities, and it's happening before the first conversation...
The Space Force Just Added $4.4 Billion to Its Space Surveillance Program. Here’s What That Means for Hiring.
The Space Force just raised the contract ceiling for its Andromeda program from $1.8 billion to $6.2 billion. That's an...
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...