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92 articles30 Months, Unflown Terran R: NASA's Mars Bet on Relativity
NASA awarded Relativity Space a 2028 Mars orbiter contract under a Space Act Agreement, shifting schedule risk to private funding. The deal accelerates science, demands rapid 3D-printed rocket production, and triggers massive hiring of manufacturing and software engineers.
Thales Alenia Space to Hire 2,001 Across Europe’s Space Sovereignty Push
Thales Alenia Space is expanding its workforce to meet demand for satellite solutions, focusing on telecom, Earth observation, and defense. Key roles include AI integration specialists and satellite engineers, supporting EU space autonomy and partnerships with ESA and NASA.
Three Flights in 15 Months. Hiring for 12 a Year. Zero Reused Engines.
Blue Origin is hiring aggressively at two sites: Merritt Island for New Glenn avionics production and Kent for BE-4/BE-7 propulsion supporting both New Glenn and the Blue Moon lunar lander. The split reveals a dual-vehicle workforce strategy with distinct clocks — commercial launch cadence vs. NASA
New Glenn Blast Grounds Orbital Reef's Only Launch Path
Sierra Space and NASA restructured their CRS-2 contract, reducing Dream Chaser ISS cargo flights to a single 2026 demo. The company appointed a new CFO and government relations chief, signaling a strategic pivot from spaceplane development to Orbital Reef commercial station operations and defense wo
BE-7 Engine Shatters 38-Year Hotfire Record; Blue Origin Staffs Van Horn for Flight Test
Blue Origin is hiring BE-7 test engineers at its Van Horn, Texas site, part of a 151-role surge signaling a shift from component validation to integrated flight-test operations for the Artemis lunar lander program. The BE-7 engine recently set a 2,500-second hotfire record.
Only Commercial Station Contender With Flown Hardware Just Raised $500M for 2027 Launch
Vast raised $500M Series A led by Balerion Space Ventures, with In-Q-Tel, Qatar Investment Authority, Mitsui, MUFG, Nikon. Funds expand Long Beach facilities, grow team to 1,000+, advance Haven-2 for NASA CLD Phase 2. Haven Demo validated systems; Haven-1 targets Q1 2027 Falcon 9 launch.
JAL Sells Lunar Cargo Slots. ispace Races to Staff Tokyo Control Center for 2026 Delivery
ispace is transitioning from lander construction to real-time mission operations, driven by JAL's ARGO project and the ULTRA lander's integration for NASA's CLPS. The shift requires bilingual engineers with test and operations experience.
NASA chose a company that's never reached orbit to run its next Mars mission — then hired 26 people to do it.
Relativity Space went from near-bankruptcy to winning a NASA Mars orbiter mission after Eric Schmidt's $800M investment. The company's 3D-printed Terran R rocket and integrated mission delivery model beat established primes like Lockheed Martin. With Terran R yet to fly and a tight 2028 launch windo
NASA gave back seven guaranteed missions. Sierra Space's answer was an $8 billion valuation.
Sierra Space closed a $550 million Series C round at an $8 billion valuation on March 5, 2026, led by LuminArx Capital Management with participation from General Atlantic, Coatue, Moore Strategic Ventures, and Andalusian Private Capital. The company plans to use the capital to scale production for t
Varda Space raised $187M to build pharma's first orbital factory — and it's hiring 19 people a week
Varda Space Industries closed a $187 million Series C round on July 10, 2025, bringing total capital raised to $329 million. The El Segundo-based startup plans to use the funds to increase launch cadence toward monthly missions and expand its new 10,000-square-foot biologics lab for crystallizing ph
Rocket Lab spent $275M on sensors. Then it bought the company that makes the lenses inside them.
Rocket Lab acquired Optical Support, Inc. in February 2026, absorbing 20 team members and 22,000 sq ft of advanced optics manufacturing facilities in Tucson, Arizona. The deal follows Rocket Lab's $275M acquisition of Geost in August 2025, completing a vertically integrated electro-optical payload s
NASA lost 2,000 senior staff in 2025. A company that has never flown is filling the gap.
Relativity Space's NASA contract to operate a Mars orbiter by 2028 is driving a distinct hiring surge in deep-space autonomous operations, planetary science integration, and interplanetary mission planning — skills that diverge sharply from the low-Earth-orbit talent dominating the post-SpaceX comme
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
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
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
NASA picked a rocket that has never flown to launch its next Mars mission.
NASA has selected Relativity Space to build, launch, and operate the Aeolus Mars orbiter targeting a 2028 departure. Under a six-year reimbursable Space Act Agreement, NASA provides the four-instrument payload suite while Relativity owns the spacecraft bus and launches on its still-in-development Te
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
JPL just cut 550 engineers. Loft Orbital is hiring them the same week.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off roughly 550 employees, 11% of its workforce, in its second major reduction in 18 months. The cuts coincide with a broader talent migration from government labs to commercial space companies like Loft Orbital and Turion Space, which are actively recruiting JP
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