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336 articlesThe Overture supersonic airliner was supposed to be Boom's reason for existing. Now the company's primary revenue driver is a product it conceived, funded, and sold in a matter of months.
Boom Supersonic, founded to revive supersonic passenger flight, has pivoted to a natural-gas turbine business called Superpower. The division has already secured $300M in funding and a $1.25B+ backlog, with profits earmarked to fund the Overture airliner's development.
Starlink's IPO depends on a workforce most people have never heard of — fiber-splicing technicians working second shifts in a Redmond clean room.
SpaceX is hiring Laser Production Technicians at scale for its Redmond, Washington Starlink facility. The role involves hands-on fiber optic assembly, clean-room work, and optical subassembly testing. Compensation ranges from $22–$37/hour across three levels, with full benefits. The hiring surge sig
Thales plans to hire 9,000 people in 2026 — and Mistral AI, SpaceX, and Anduril are chasing the same 3,600 engineers.
Thales Group plans to recruit more than 9,000 employees worldwide in 2026, with 40% in engineering roles. France leads with 3,300 hires, driven by major programs including Sentinel-1 Next Generation and SkyDefender.
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…
Your propulsion résumé lists broad aerospace experience. Relativity's open roles demand turbopump, combustion-device, or test-engineering expertise — and pay up to $225,500 for it.
In December 2025, six Aeon R engines occupied NASA Stennis Space Center in a single day. That same month, Relativity Space released 1,526 flight parts and…
Space Manufacturing Jobs: High-Pay Tech Roles Hiring Now
Blue Origin is spending $600 million on Project Horizon, an 830,000-square-foot upper stage factory at its Rocket Park campus in Cape Canaveral, Florida,…
SpaceX Already Makes 85% of Its Launch Hardware In-House. Now It's Doing the Same Thing to the Silicon Inside Its Dishes.
SpaceX's Bastrop, Texas campus is installing equipment at an advanced chip packaging facility targeting in-house RF chip production by the end of 2026 — a…
SpaceX added 141 open roles in a single week. xAI was burning $1 billion a month. They're all hiring for the same 200-person talent pool.
SpaceX added 141 open roles in a single week. xAI, which SpaceX absorbed on February 2 in a deal creating a $1.25 trillion combined entity, was burning…
Impulse Space just raised $500 million to hire 200 people — not build AI
Impulse Space announced a $500 million Series D on June 2, 2026, co-led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC, with participation from Founders Fund, Lux Capital,…
Amazon's Kirkland satellite factory is built to produce five spacecraft a day. It can only find 120 of the 200 workers it needs.
Amazon's Kirkland, Washington factory — a 172,000-square-foot satellite manufacturing facility that opened in April 2024 — is designed to produce up to…
1,017 Blue Origin jobs across 3 states go unnoticed by non-aerospace engineers
On May 22, 2026, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stood at Cape Canaveral Spaceport and announced a $600 million bet on the future of American rocketry. Blue…
SpaceX Has Over 1,000 Jobs Open in Texas as Musk Reads Applications Himself
On May 21, 2026, Elon Musk announced he would personally review SpaceX job applications as the company filed for a record $1.5–2 trillion IPO. Over 1,000 Texas roles are open across Starship, Starlink, and the new SpaceXAI division — and the offers are reshaping the state's engineering labor market.
Defense Tech Cleared Jobs Spike as Golden Dome Demands Hybrid AI-Space Talent
The Pentagon's $175 billion Golden Dome program is creating unprecedented demand for hybrid-cleared technologists with expertise in space systems, AI, and integrated defense architecture. This article explores how the initiative is transforming hiring in Virginia, driving salary premiums, and creati
One in Four Senior Backend Engineers Now Eyeing Defense-Tech Roles
Defense-tech startups like Anduril and Palantir are pulling mid-career engineers from Big Tech with faster promotions, security-clearance career moats, mission-driven work, and competitive compensation. With U.S. defense-tech funding nearly tripling to $14.2B in 2025 and the Pentagon's $1.01T FY2026
Space Industry's $46B Boom Hits a Wall: Nobody Can Find the Workers
The space sector is creating thousands of new roles—orbital servicing technicians, in-space manufacturing specialists, lunar logistics planners—yet still recruits from the same narrow talent pools. Judith Delany's SpaceWatchGL opinion piece argues the industry's conservative hiring practices are bli
NASA shed 20% of its workforce — now it's racing to hire the engineers it needs most
After roughly 4,000 NASA civil servants left through buyouts and early retirement in late 2025, the agency launched NASA Force — a mid-career hiring program targeting engineers in thermal protection, ECLSS, and flight software to rebuild lost competencies ahead of Artemis lunar missions.
Impulse Space Raises $500M Series D, Valuing Propulsion Startup at $4.26 Billion
Impulse Space announced a $500 million Series D round, pushing total capital past $1 billion and valuing the company at $4.26 billion. In a sector chasing AI-first development, Impulse is scaling human engineering headcount fast — betting that hardware built for space still demands human judgment.
Nvidia posts $356,500 orbital datacenter architect role requiring 12+ years of space systems experience
Nvidia posted a $224K–$356K job for an Orbital Datacenter System Architect, revealing how seriously the AI industry is pursuing space-based compute. From Starcloud's H100-in-orbit demo to SpaceX's million-satellite megaconstellation plans, the next frontier of data centers may be in low Earth orbit.
Reusable Rockets Need Assembly-Line Workers—and the Talent Pipeline Isn't Ready
Reusable rockets are transforming aerospace from artisanal craft production into high-volume manufacturing, driving demand for production-line talent, six-figure salaries, and skills from automotive and electronics industries.
Aerospace Engineer Pay Ranges From $75K at Early-Stage Startups to $250K With TS/SCI Clearance
Aerospace engineer compensation in 2026 varies dramatically by company stage, clearance status, specialization, and geography. This guide breaks down real salary data across government, defense primes, and startups — from $75K at early-stage ventures to $250K+ for cleared senior engineers — so candi
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