Week in Space Data, every Friday.
Every SpaceNexus brief in one place: the weekly State of the Space Economy, Who's Hiring in Space and Regulatory Radar data briefs, each computed from our trackers. Filterable, newest first.
Weekly briefs were paused March–July 2026 and resumed in August 2026 on an automated weekly cadence. Historic editions from before the pause are preserved below.
Who's hiring in space, week of 2026-09-30: 9,905 active listings, 1,007 new this week across 10 top hiring companies.
9,905 active job listings, 4,575 of them at private, pre-IPO companies across the space industry right now. Hiring activity below covers the seven days ending 2026-09-30 (2026-09-23 → 2026-09-30).
Coverage note (2026-09-26): 35 employers joined the tracker (+1,834 postings: Inversion Space, Isar Aerospace, Spire Global, Katalyst Space, AST SpaceMobile, LeoLabs, BlackSky, HawkEye 360 and 27 more). Anduril now counts space-segment roles only (−2,252 postings of non-space work). Hermeus now counts space-segment roles only (−85 postings of non-space work). Hadrian now counts space-segment roles only (−143 postings of non-space work). Totals moving on this date reflect what we track, not market hiring. No week-over-week change is shown this week for that reason.
Coverage note (2026-09-27): 11 employers joined the tracker (+1,192 postings: Leonardo, Leidos, Boeing, KBR, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Northrop Grumman, Axiom Space, Sierra Space and 3 more). Totals moving on this date reflect what we track, not market hiring. No week-over-week change is shown this week for that reason.
| Metric | This week |
|---|---|
| Active job listings | 9,905 |
| At private / pre-IPO companies | 4,575 |
| New listings this week | 1,007 |
| Company | Open roles |
|---|---|
| SpaceX | 2,610 |
| Blue Origin | 1,764 |
| Rocket Lab | 533 |
| The Aerospace Corporation | 423 |
| Relativity Space | 333 |
| K2 Space | 245 |
| AST SpaceMobile | 235 |
| Vast | 204 |
| Impulse Space | 201 |
| Voyager Technologies | 192 |
1,007 listings were first posted in the last seven days.
Notable new roles:
Median disclosed salary is $154,999, based on 541 listings that disclose salary.
Job data is synced daily from company ATS feeds. This brief is generated automatically every week: no AI, pure data aggregation.