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3,244 articlesCesiumAstro 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
Northrop Grumman made 13,000 rocket motors last year. By 2029, it plans to make 25,000 a year.
Northrop Grumman delivered roughly 13,000 rocket motors in 2024 and expects to hit 25,000 annually by 2029, signaling a production surge across the solid-rocket motor industry. The company has committed over $1 billion to solid-rocket motor capacity and is hiring across multiple sites. Separately, N
A $500 million startup is hiring robot operators before it ships a single unit
Mind Robotics, founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, closed a $500 million Series A at a $2 billion valuation — one of the largest early-stage robotics investments ever. Unlike humanoid-focused competitors, Mind Robotics is building factory-floor robots for immediate industrial deployment, starting wit
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,
Voice agents are 5x slower than human conversation. Moss AI thinks it found the fix.
As model costs plummet, the value in AI has shifted from training models to the retrieval, inference, and orchestration layers that make agents feel seamless. This article examines how Y Combinator's F25 batch, Moss AI's sub-10ms semantic search architecture, and changing consumer behavior signal a
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
Anduril's Costa Mesa campus is on the market for $400M — and the 173 roles posted this week explain why
Anduril Industries is investing $1 billion in a 1.1-million-square-foot campus spanning Long Beach and Lakewood, set to open in mid-2027 with 750,000 square feet of office space and 435,000 square feet of industrial R&D. The facility will support roughly 5,500 direct jobs and anchors a Southern Cali
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
Anduril Raised $5B at a $61B Valuation. Its Ohio Megafactory Needs 4,000 Workers by 2035.
Anduril Industries raised $5B in Series H funding, doubling its valuation to $61B. The round prices in physical production at scale, not just software revenue. The company is building Arsenal-1, a massive manufacturing facility in Pickaway County, Ohio, designed to employ 4,000 workers by 2035. Reve
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
CesiumAstro raised $470M to mass-produce satellites in Bee Cave — and the EXIM bank deal that never happened before explains why
CesiumAstro closed $470 million in growth capital and acquired AI startup Vidrovr, signaling a major shift in space-communications hardware. The round, backed by Toyota, Airbus, and the U.S. Export-Import Bank, funds domestic manufacturing expansion and positions the company as a vertically integrat
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
Anduril raised $5B at a $61B valuation. Its fastest-growing roles have nothing to do with building weapons.
Anduril's $5 billion Series H round at a $61 billion valuation signals a fundamental shift in how defense-tech companies are staffed and scaled. With 28x revenue multiples, a $20 billion Army NGC2 contract, and aggressive site-reliability hiring across Sydney, Atlanta, and beyond, the company is ope
SpaceX raised $25 billion 11 days after its IPO — and now it needs engineers who can build Raptors by the dozen
SpaceX raised $25 billion in its debut corporate bond sale on June 23, 2026, just 11 days after its IPO, drawing nearly $90 billion in investor orders. The five-tranche senior unsecured notes carry maturities from 2031 to 2056 with yields from 5.35% to 6.65%. The proceeds refinance a $20 billion bri
Anduril went from prototype to production line in under three years. Now it needs engineers who understand both deep-sea pressure and autonomy software
Anduril opened a 7,400sqm Sydney facility in October 2025 to produce Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous underwater vehicles for the Royal Australian Navy under a AU$1.7B contract. The article examines how the program is driving demand for specialized engineering and manufacturing talent across Austr
The Fastest-Growing Job in Defense Tech Never Touches Code — and Shield AI Is Filling 223 of Them
Shield AI acquired Aechelon Technology in a deal that fuses simulation, autonomy, and deployment into a closed data loop for the Hivemind Foundation Model. The article also covers Poland's $16M V-BAT naval order, which demands transatlantic production scale, and examines Shield AI's hiring surge as
AI's $660 billion spending spree depends on a job title that barely existed three years ago
Confident AI raised $2.2M in an oversubscribed seed round, signaling investor confidence in LLM evaluation infrastructure. As AI shifts from model-building to model-verifying, evaluation, monitoring, and incident response roles are becoming core engineering positions across the industry.
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