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166 articlesBlue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Exploded on the Pad. Now It's Hiring 500 to Build the Next Ones.
Blue Origin is investing $600 million in an 830,000-square-foot upper stage manufacturing facility—Project Horizon—at its Florida Rocket Park campus, adding 500 high-paying aerospace jobs and signaling a major push to scale New Glenn rocket production despite recent setbacks.
SpaceX's $6.3B AI Deal With Reflection Is Quietly Fueling a Hiring War for Engineers Who Can Deploy Models in Orbit
SpaceX signs a $6.3B computing deal with open-source AI startup Reflection AI, gaining access to Nvidia GB300 chips at its Colossus 2 data center. The agreement highlights SpaceX's shift toward commercial AI infrastructure and reveals a hidden hiring surge for orbital-AI engineering roles requiring
The Wormhole Prints Rocket Barrels Next to Thrust Stands That Simulate Mars Transfer — and NASA Is Betting 2028 on Both
NASA's selection of Relativity Space for the Aeolus Mars orbiter mission marks a pivotal shift in the company's credibility and hiring power, enabling it to attract top engineering talent with a deep-space mission on its manifest despite an unproven rocket and past launch failure.
Blue Origin's JARVIS Program Is Hiring Production Planners, Not Rocket Scientists — and 118 New Roles in a Week Show Why
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test on May 28, 2026, destroying the first stage and damaging the launch pad. The incident shifted hiring from launch operations to production, with 118 new roles focused on manufacturing at the Merritt Island facility under the JARVIS pro
SpaceX Reuses Boosters for a Decade. Blue Origin Just Hired Its First Refurbishment Engineer.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test on May 28, 2026, destroying pad infrastructure and exposing deep structural failures in its reusability program. Despite the setback, the company is aggressively hiring test and refurbishment engineers to fix the issues and resume lau
SpaceX Spent $15 Billion on Starship and Flew Five Flights. Now It's Hiring the Engineers Who Keep Factories From Breaking.
SpaceX's Starship program faces a critical bottleneck: scaling factory production to meet ambitious launch cadence targets. While Falcon 9 achieves rapid reuse, Starship's complexity demands new industrial engineering roles focused on equipment reliability, maintenance, and high-rate manufacturing i
Relativity Space Has Never Reached Orbit. NASA Just Handed It a Mars Mission — and 17 New Job Postings in Seven Days Show the Clock Is Already Ticking
NASA selected Relativity Space to design and launch a Mars orbiter carrying the Aeolus atmospheric instrument suite on Terran R in late 2028. The mission anchors Relativity's Interplanetary Sciences Program, backed by Eric Schmidt's leadership and capital. Meanwhile, Long Beach has emerged as an add
SpaceX Is Building Two 700,000-Square-Foot Rocket Megafactories at Once — and 126 New Job Postings in Seven Days Show It's Already Behind on Staffing
SpaceX is building two massive manufacturing facilities—Gigabay at Starbase, Texas and another at Kennedy Space Center, Florida—each capable of producing up to 1,000 Starship vehicles per year. This dual-site strategy marks SpaceX's shift from proving Starship can fly to scaling production for unpre
SpaceX Pays Up to $270,000 for RFIC Engineers. Blue Origin Is Paying $376,844. The Reason Is a 6 Tbps Constellation Nobody Saw Coming.
Blue Origin's TeraWave multi-orbit satellite network demands custom silicon at scale. Job postings for PLL IC design engineers in San Diego reveal the technical ambitions behind the 6 Tbps constellation, which stacks 5,280 LEO satellites with Q/V-band RF payloads and 128 MEO satellites carrying opti
A Rocket Exploded in May. Blue Origin's Response Was a Hiring Surge in Alabama.
Blue Origin is investing $71.4 million to expand its Huntsville operations, adding 105 jobs and scaling production of BE-4 and BE-3U rocket engines. The move taps into Alabama’s growing propulsion talent hub and supports demand from ULA’s Vulcan and Blue Origin’s New Glenn programs.
Blue Origin Plans to Build 60 Rocket Stages a Year. It Has Completed Eight.
Blue Origin added 116 roles in the past seven days, outpacing SpaceX's 98 and NASA's 11 over the same period. The listings reveal a company staffing for reusability and production scaling, not damage control. Key roles include a BE-4 engine recovery stage engineer, manufacturing engineers for engine
NASA Picked a Rocket Company With No Orbital Record to Reach Mars. The 27 Jobs It Just Posted Reveal Why.
NASA partners with Relativity Space for the 2028 Aeolus Mars orbiter mission, marking a milestone for 3D-printed rockets and interplanetary exploration.
Boeing Is Doubling Satellite Output to 26 Deliveries in 2026. The Roles Making It Possible Don't Require an Aerospace Degree.
Boeing's Millennium Space Systems is doubling satellite output in 2026, building a production-line approach for mid-size satellites through its new Resolute platform — and quietly creating a wave of manufacturing and integration jobs the space industry has never staffed at scale.
SpaceX Pays Up to $230,000 for Avionics Engineers in Hawthorne. Blue Origin's Huntsville Ceiling Is $194,783 — and the Work Is Entirely Different
Blue Origin is investing $71.4 million in Huntsville, Alabama, to build a large-scale thruster production facility, adding 105 specialized manufacturing and engineering jobs. The expansion supports BE-4 engine production for New Glenn and Vulcan Centaur, and positions Huntsville as Blue Origin's pro
SpaceX Bought Cursor for $60 Billion. The Three New Job Postings in Hawthorne Reveal What Musk Actually Plans to Do With It.
SpaceX's $60B acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor marks the opening act of a vertically integrated AI-factory strategy, not a simple tool purchase. The deal gives SpaceX distribution to millions of expert engineers, proprietary codebase integration, and a product retrainable on aerospace data. C
The aerospace industry's next bottleneck isn't engines or structures. It's engineers who can wire large language models into flight-critical code.
SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere signals a new breed of engineer who operates at the intersection of AI tooling and flight-critical systems.
SpaceX added 110 roles in seven days — and the ones that matter most are for engineers who can design circuit boards that fly.
SpaceX's Hawthorne campus is in the middle of a sustained hiring push for Starship avionics and electrical engineering talent. At least two active LinkedIn listings for Electrical Engineer (Starship Avionics) are live right now, with 115 applicants already on one posting. Indeed lists 10 open SpaceX
Blue Origin cut 1,400 workers in February. It's now hiring 500 more — and the new jobs reveal what the company actually needs.
Blue Origin is investing $600 million in an 830,000-square-foot upper-stage manufacturing facility on Merritt Island, Florida, creating 500 aerospace jobs at an average salary of $98,000. The expansion, dubbed Project Horizon, signals a shift from R&D to scaled manufacturing for the New Glenn rocket
The Moon Base is a $20 billion architecture. The people who will build it are precision welders and CNC programmers — and the entire aerospace-grade welding workforce is a fraction of what's needed.
NASA awarded $627 million in lunar surface hardware contracts on May 26, 2026, to Astrolab, Lunar Outpost, Blue Origin, and Firefly Aerospace. While headlines focused on the prime contractors, the real employment story is unfolding across sub-tier suppliers who manufacture components, machine parts,
Blue Origin added 149 roles in a single week — and the subcontractors feeding New Glenn are poaching SpaceX and Relativity Space engineers in a Seattle suburb most people have never heard of.
Blue Origin's 3,915 open roles listed on LinkedIn as of June 2026 are the visible peak. The real disruption is happening one tier down, where New Glenn…
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