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166 articlesBlue Origin's Reston hub posted a three-seat navigation cluster that didn't exist a week ago — the mandate is satellites that know where they are without calling home.
Blue Origin's job posting for a Principal Autonomous Orbit Determination Engineer reveals the company's blueprint for building self-navigating spacecraft. The role fuses optical and radiometric navigation into autonomous onboard systems for Blue Ring, supporting cislunar, heliocentric, and interplan
SpaceX lost roughly $600B in market value over three days around its bond pricing. The index funds were buying the whole time.
SpaceX joined the Nasdaq-100 just 15 trading days after its June 2026 IPO, qualifying under a fast-tracked rule change for top-40 market-cap companies. The inclusion triggered an estimated $22 billion in passive fund buying, creating a persistent demand floor that supports the equity value central t
A Judge Blocked Thales From Cutting 650 Space Workers — Now It Hires Into a Structure It Can't Reorganize.
On December 16, 2025, the Toulouse judicial court ordered Thales Alenia Space to suspend a restructuring plan that would have eliminated 650 positions at its satellite-manufacturing site. The ruling capped a 21-month sequence that began in March 2024 when TAS announced cuts across its European space
Blue Origin's Washington jobs dropped 57%. The company's next bet is on a 100-meter tower that beams power into lunar craters.
Blue Origin's 2022 acquisition of Honeybee Robotics marked a strategic shift from reusable rockets to permanent infrastructure on other worlds. The 284-person robotics firm brought decades of expertise in planetary surface mechanisms, including hardware for NASA's Mars and lunar missions. Honeybee i
Your next space-surveillance engineer might work at Blue Origin now — the company just posted 144 roles tied to a 2026 AI-payload mission it's staffing alongside New Glenn's recovery.
Blue Origin's Blue Ring spacecraft will launch in 2026 carrying an optical surveillance payload designed to track and characterize objects in geostationary orbit, a mission aimed at space domain awareness for national security customers. The Caracal sensor, built by Optimum Technologies (OpTech), wi
1,500 people will build landers in a Jeff Bezos factory. Many of them can't cash their own paycheck.
Blue Origin's Lunar Plant 1 in Merritt Island, Florida, is a 200,000-square-foot production facility designed to build the crewed Blue Moon MK2 lander for NASA's Artemis V mission. The factory represents a shift from prototyping to serial production, with 1,500 production workers and a co-location m
Rocket Lab, SpaceX, and Blue Origin are fighting over the same 41 engineers — and the talent pool is a few thousand deep
Rocket Lab's Electron production line now completes one rocket every 11 days, enabling responsive-launch missions for the U.S. Space Force. The company's Long Beach Engine Development Center produces 3D-printed Rutherford engines for Electron and develops the Archimedes engine for the medium-lift Ne
SpaceX's $280M Bastrop bet creates a job title that neither the chip industry nor aerospace has ever hired for
SpaceX is investing over $280 million to build North America's largest PCB and panel-level packaging plant in Bastrop, Texas, adding one million square feet and 400+ jobs. Backed by a $17.3 million Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant, the facility will produce Starlink kits and advanced semico
Blue Origin's pad was still smoldering from New Glenn's explosion when it posted 157 new roles — the highest-paid cluster targets a discipline no other U.S. employer is staffing for
Blue Origin's MK2 Blue Moon lander job postings reveal a deliberate effort to create a dedicated soft-landing GN&C workforce category distinct from traditional satellite and launch-vehicle controls pipelines. The article examines how the roles demand coupled expertise in flexible-body, slosh, and sp
JPL shed 1,500 people in two years — and a single Long Beach job fair proved where they're landing
NASA's decision to compete the JPL management contract ended six decades of sole-source control by Caltech. The article also covers Rocket Lab winning NASA science launch contracts and Loft Orbital hosting JPL's AI software on commercial satellites, signaling a broader shift in how deep-space and Ea
The most critical hires at SpaceX's Texas launch base won't touch a rocket
SpaceX plans to build an eight-mile natural gas pipeline called Starpipe from the Port of Brownsville to its Starbase launch complex in South Texas. The 16-inch pipeline will feed an on-site liquefaction plant producing liquid methane for Starship, which burns roughly 630,000 gallons per launch. The
Blue Origin is spending $600 million on a factory for a rocket that just exploded — and the 151 new job postings explain why
Blue Origin is investing $600 million in an 830,000-square-foot upper-stage manufacturing facility at Cape Canaveral, creating 500 aerospace jobs. The move signals a push toward high-cadence New Glenn launches and cheaper reusable rocket production. The announcement follows a New Glenn pad explosion
Blue Origin lost its only pad and a rocket in one blast. Its careers page shows why that might still be a down payment on something bigger.
A New Glenn rocket exploded during a hotfire test at Cape Canaveral's LC-36 on May 28, destroying the pad and a lightning tower. The incident threatens Blue Origin's NASA Artemis lunar lander contracts and exposes a structural vulnerability in reusable heavy-lift operations: ground infrastructure mu
Elizabeth Warren warned about SpaceX's index inclusion. SpaceX's job board tells a different story.
FTSE Russell's confirmation of SpaceX's inclusion in the Russell 1000, 3000, and Top 200 indexes triggered a mechanical buying timeline and accelerated the company's transformation into a publicly traded entity. With only 4.3% of shares in float at IPO, index funds are chasing a tiny slice of a $1.7
NASA handed Blue Origin lunar missions the same week its pad was still smoldering — now the company needs 141 workers who can do something expendable-launch programs never required.
On May 28, 2026, a New Glenn rocket exploded during a static-fire test at Cape Canaveral, destroying the vehicle and severely damaging Blue Origin's launch pad. Within weeks, the company launched a massive hiring surge for launch operations technicians focused on rocket refurbishment and pad recover
Blue Origin cut 1,400 workers the same week it posted 140 new jobs — and every open role shares one thing
Blue Origin laid off roughly 10% of its workforce in February 2025, targeting engineering, R&D, and program management roles. CEO Dave Limp framed the cuts as a structural reset, shifting focus from experimentation to execution. The company still holds over $10 billion in contract backlog and is act
NASA handed Blue Origin three lunar missions — then its only rocket blew up 48 hours later
On May 28, 2026, Blue Origin's New Glenn booster exploded during a static fire test at Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 36, severely damaging the company's only orbital launch pad. With no backup facility available, the explosion could ground New Glenn operations for over a year. The incident compoun
SpaceX raised $25 billion 11 days after its IPO — and now it needs engineers who can build Raptors by the dozen
SpaceX raised $25 billion in its debut corporate bond sale on June 23, 2026, just 11 days after its IPO, drawing nearly $90 billion in investor orders. The five-tranche senior unsecured notes carry maturities from 2031 to 2056 with yields from 5.35% to 6.65%. The proceeds refinance a $20 billion bri
SpaceX's $25 billion bond deal is quietly creating a new job class that Wall Street and rocket factories both want
SpaceX raised $25 billion in its first public bond sale just eleven days after completing the largest IPO in American history. With over $100 billion in cash already on its balance sheet, the borrowing wasn't about survival — it was a strategic move to scale without diluting equity, lock in long-ter
SpaceX Has $100.8 Billion in Cash. It's Borrowing $20 Billion More.
SpaceX launched its first bond offering on June 22, 2026, just 10 days after its record $85.7 billion IPO, targeting $20 billion in senior unsecured notes. The deal refinances a bridge loan used to acquire xAI, converting short-term floating-rate debt into long-term fixed-rate paper. Despite holding
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