Announcing OuterSpaceJobs.com
Newsletter · October 11, 2026
OuterSpaceJobs.com is live, the largest space jobs board in the galaxy. Open jobs at the companies building launch vehicles, satellites, and space stations.
Newest jobs
Senior Quality Technician II
Oct 11, 2026
Sr Manager, Program Planning & Scheduling Pillar
Clearance Oct 11, 2026
Terrestrial Mechanical Design & Test Engineer II, Automation
Oct 11, 2026
Wire Harness Design Engineer II
Oct 11, 2026
Technician-Tube Shop II
Oct 11, 2026
Space Engineering Lab Technician
Clearance Oct 11, 2026Highest paying jobs
Individual open jobs, ordered by the top of the posted range. Approximate USD.
Senior Director, Business Development - Civil & Commercial
Oct 1, 2026
Director, IC Business Development
Aug 8, 2026 Senior Director, Optical Communication - TeraWave
Sep 11, 2026 Maintenance Technician 2nd Shift
Sep 2, 2026
SVP, Government Affairs
Remote Clearance Jun 9, 2026
Deputy General Counsel
Clearance Oct 7, 2026Industry report
State of the industry
October 2026 snapshot, taken October 9, 2026. This is the first snapshot. Rank movement will show up next month. This report is kept as it was published. Current report
Top employers
By open roles.
- 1
SpaceX 2,714 - 2 Blue Origin 1,778
- 3 Rocket Lab 559
- 4 GE Aerospace 556
- 5 The Aerospace Corporation 420
- 6
Relativity Space 348 - 7
K2 Space 255 - 8
AST SpaceMobile 223 - 9
Impulse Space 212 - 10 True Anomaly 207
Most openings
A posting can match more than one role.
- 1 Software Engineer 1,080
- 2 Systems Engineer 1,055
- 3 Technician 885
- 4 Manufacturing 641
- 5 Design 598
- 6 Test Engineer 577
- 7 Intern 557
- 8 Mechanical Engineering 555
- 9 Operations 521
- 10 Avionics 429
Highest paying jobs
Median top of the posted range, for roles with at least 8 salaries. Approximate USD.
- 1 Lawyer $255k
- 2 Security $202k
- 3 Mission $201k
- 4 Software Engineer $200k
- 5 Business Development $200k
- 6 Guidance $199k
- 7 Program Manager $195k
- 8 Systems Engineer $194k
- 9 Design $194k
- 10 Flight $186k
Jobs by state
10,162 open roles list a US state.
None 4,272
- 1 California 4,272
- 2 Texas 1,429
- 3 Colorado 1,226
- 4 Washington 723
- 5 Florida 651
- 6 Virginia 442
- 7 Alabama 298
- 8 Maryland 186
- 9 Ohio 173
- 10 District of Columbia 124
Look up!
Meteor showers, launches, and what is in the sky for the rest of October.
- Oct. 12
✨ Mercury is as far from the Sun as it gets in the evening sky
Look low in the west just after sunset. A thin crescent Moon sits nearby. Farther south, Venus joins them.
- Oct. 13
🛰️ SpaceX sends a cargo Dragon to the space station
CRS-2 SpX-35 is set for 6:33 a.m. EDT.
- Oct. 15
🚀 A Space Force mission, USSF-481, launches on a Falcon 9
Evening liftoff, about 7:44 p.m. EDT. The payload is not public.
- Oct. 19
🛰️ Japan launches a mission to the moons of Mars
JAXA’s MMX spacecraft lifts off on an H3 from Tanegashima at 3:41 p.m. EDT (4:41 a.m. Oct. 20 in Japan). It is due at Mars in August 2027, with a Phobos sample aimed for Earth in 2031.
- Oct. 21–22
✨ The Orionid meteor shower peaks
Debris from Halley’s Comet. A bright Moon will hide the fainter ones. The better window is the last few hours before dawn, after the Moon sets.
- Oct. 24
✨ Venus passes between Earth and the Sun
It slips out of the evening sky and returns as a morning star in the weeks after.
- Oct. 26
✨ Full Moon, the Hunter’s Moon
Peak illumination is 12:11 a.m. EDT.
- Oct. 27–28
✨ The Moon passes the Pleiades
Look east in the evening. The Seven Sisters are a small misty cluster beside the Moon. Binoculars show more of them. From some places the Moon covers part of the cluster.
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