Leaving a Prime for a Space Startup: Is It Right for You?
At a prime, a design change can go through several rounds of review before anyone touches the hardware. If you're leaving a prime for a...
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Legacy Aerospace to New Space: What Startups Look For
Space startups are building some of the most exciting hardware in the industry, from reusable rockets to lunar landers. A lot of it is first-of-its-kind...
How to Show Flight Heritage on Your Space Resume
An RF engineer who has taken a system from an idea on paper all the way to flight is rare. Rare enough that we could...
How to Judge a Space Startup’s Equity Offer
A founder tells you your 0.5% could be worth $5 million one day. Before you count on it, you need to know how much of...
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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...
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...