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336 articlesBE-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.
The Engine That Melted 50 Chambers Finally Gets Its Gigafactory.
SpaceX is scaling Raptor engine production through automation in Hawthorne and Cape Canaveral, hiring automation engineers to mass-produce full-flow staged combustion engines for Starship's high flight cadence. Engine production is now the pacing item.
SpaceX Plans 10,000 Starships a Year. The Factory Is Half-Built and the Town Doesn't Have Enough Houses.
SpaceX's Starbase Gigabay is a 700,000-square-foot facility designed for high-rate Starship production, targeting up to 10,000 vehicles per year. The article examines what the facility's scale, job postings, and Texas Enterprise Zone filing reveal about SpaceX's manufacturing ambitions and workforce
Blue Origin Is Hiring 147 People a Week. SpaceX Just Bought 300.
In June 2026, SpaceX acquired Cursor parent Anysphere in a $60 billion all-stock deal, the largest defense-tech M&A transaction in history. The article explores the unusual call-option structure, Cursor's explosive revenue growth from $1B to $4B ARR, its agentic-coding platform, and the strategic ve
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
SpaceX minted millionaires from New Glenn's old hires. Blue Origin's fix landed a booster — and still can't promise a payday.
Blue Origin's New Glenn first stage successfully landed on November 13, 2025, marking a pivotal milestone after the NG-1 failure. The recovery clears a key U.S. Space Force certification threshold, shifts New Glenn into operational reuse, and triggers a nine-mile factory loop workforce model on Flor
SpaceX Spent $17B on Spectrum the FCC Won't Let It Use From the Orbit It Needs.
SpaceX's $17 billion acquisition of EchoStar's H-block and AWS-4 spectrum licenses marks a pivotal shift from fixed broadband to direct-to-cell satellite service. The deal, combined with the FCC's 15,000-satellite Gen2 authorization and targeted RF engineering hires, signals SpaceX's aggressive push
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
Terranova raised $7 million to invent a job that doesn't exist yet
Terranova, a San Francisco startup, builds autonomous tracked robots that drill underground and inject slurry to lift sinking cities. With a $7M seed round at a $25M+ valuation, the company is pioneering a new field-robot workforce category at the climate adaptation frontier.
Blue Origin is paying SpaceX rates to build satellites that don't need ground stations
On January 21, 2026, Blue Origin announced TeraWave, a multi-orbit satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. The company pitched it as a high-capacity backbone for enterprise, data center, and government users, a market segment th
Blue 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
Thales plans to recruit 9,000 people in 2026 — and Google just signed on to power the classified workloads
Thales Group plans to recruit more than 9,000 employees worldwide in 2026, growing headcount by over 10% across defense, aerospace, and cyber divisions. Approximately 40% of new hires will fill engineering roles in AI, cybersecurity, and data. The company also announced a sovereign cloud partnership
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
Boeing added 44 roles in one week at the factory where it builds satellites for the Space Force — and the backlog is 80 vehicles deep
Boeing's 2018 acquisition of Millennium Space Systems is finally paying off as the El Segundo-based small-satellite company ramps production from 14 satellites in 2025 to a projected 28 in 2026. With a backlog of 70-80 vehicles, a 30% factory expansion, and the new Resolute mid-class satellite bus f
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
Anduril Posted 234 Jobs in One Week. The Average Clearance Takes 135 Days.
Anduril Industries is investing $1 billion in a 1.18-million-square-foot manufacturing and research campus spanning Long Beach and Lakewood, California. The facility is expected to support roughly 5,500 direct jobs at full capacity in autonomous defense systems production. The article examines the h
SpaceX builds 40 satellites a week. Boeing's El Segundo line is targeting 60 a year — for a single customer.
Boeing won a $2.8 billion contract from Space Systems Command to build the first two Evolved Strategic Satellites for the Space Force's Evolved Strategic SATCOM program, with options for two more. The satellites provide jam-resistant, secure connectivity for nuclear command and control from geostati
SpaceX is building 70 satellites a week while its bonds post the worst debut in recent memory.
SpaceX's Redmond facility produces roughly 70 Starlink satellites per week, making it the densest satellite manufacturing operation in the industry. The article covers the factory's rapid expansion, workforce growth across 393 local jobs, bond market turbulence following SpaceX's $20–25 billion debt
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
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