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336 articlesSpaceX is building a consumer telecom company inside a rocket factory — and recruiting from the carriers it's trying to beat.
SpaceX is preparing to launch a standalone Starlink mobile phone service for US consumers, marking a major shift from its rural broadband roots. The company has acquired nearly $20 billion in wireless spectrum, raised $25 billion in bonds, and gone public — but bond losses are mounting as investors
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
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
Thales Is Building a Cloud Google Can't Touch — and Hiring 8,000 People to Run It
Thales plans to recruit 8,000 people worldwide in 2025, with 40% in engineering roles spanning AI, cybersecurity, and data science. The company's hiring surge is backed by a new sovereign cloud partnership with Google Cloud in Germany, operated through a fully owned French-German entity with SecNumC
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
A $35 billion Lockheed contract and a rocket every 11 days are competing for the exact same 400 engineers
Rocket Lab's Electron production line now produces one rocket every 11 days, driving aggressive hiring at its Wallops Island, Virginia facility. The company added 35 roles globally in the past week alone, including test and launch engineers for both Electron and the upcoming reusable Neutron vehicle
CesiumAstro raised $470M, bought an AI lab, and is hiring 37 engineers who straddle semiconductor physics and orbital mechanics
CesiumAstro raised $470M in growth capital split between $270M equity led by Trousdale Ventures and $200M in debt from EXIM Bank and J.P. Morgan. The company also acquired AI lab Vidrovr to embed machine learning into its satellites and is moving its headquarters to a 270,000 sq ft facility in Bee C
A European satellite giant is hiring 222 workers in Utah — and every role runs on paperwork SpaceX spent years killing
Thales Alenia Space is expanding its Salt Lake City satellite manufacturing facility, backed by Utah tax incentives, to serve NATO demand for hardened geostationary satellites. The move positions the French-Italian joint venture inside US procurement channels while parent companies Airbus, Leonardo,
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
Thales Alenia Space's 3,300 hires aren't a press release — they're a production floor being staffed for a war Europe hasn't fought yet
Thales Group is recruiting 3,300 people across France in 2025 and 2026, with 150 hires at the La Ferté-Saint-Aubin plant to double production capacity. The hiring surge supports the proposed Airbus-Leonardo-Thales satellite joint venture called Project Bromo, a €6.5 billion consolidation targeting a
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
The Pentagon's Golden Dome just posted 880 classified roles. The same engineers are fielding offers from SpaceX and OpenAI.
The Pentagon's Golden Dome homeland missile defense initiative is hiring 880 classified positions requiring active Top Secret clearances. Led by Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein, the program has moved past concept phase into architecture definition. The Aerospace Corporation has established a Golde
SpaceX's Redmond factory makes 70 satellites a week — and no one else is even close
SpaceX's Redmond, Washington factory produces 70 Starlink satellites per week, totaling roughly 3,640 spacecraft annually—a rate unmatched by any peer in the satellite industry. This throughput makes deploying a 30,000-satellite constellation feasible within eight years. Meanwhile, Raptor 3 engine t
OpenAI is paying $225K to people who can solder a wire harness and read a Linux terminal
OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom-designed AI inference chip, built from scratch in just nine months. The ASIC targets large language model serving workloads and signals OpenAI's shift toward owning its full compute stack. With deployment targeted for late 2026 and ex
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
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