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Space Company Locations

Where 33 space companies build, test and launch: 59 sites, each described from a source you can open, with the roles open there today, read from the employers' own job boards every hour. The metro areas list every space employer around a city.

SpaceX

Lockheed Martin

  • Littleton, Colorado562 open roles →

    Littleton is home to Lockheed Martin's Waterton Canyon space campus, for production, engineering and testing, where it built a $350 million satellite production facility. (Source: Denver7)

  • Cape Canaveral, Florida86 open roles →

    Cape Canaveral is where Lockheed Martin tests and sustains the U.S. Navy's Trident II D5 submarine-launched missiles. (Source: Lockheed Martin)

Amazon Leo

  • Redmond, Washington359 open roles →

    Redmond is Amazon's research and development site for its Leo (formerly Kuiper) satellites: 219,000 square feet, opened in 2020, able to build prototype and early satellites too. (Source: GeekWire)

  • Kirkland, Washington35 open roles →

    Kirkland is Amazon's factory for its Leo satellites: 172,000 square feet, planned to build up to four satellites a day. (Source: GeekWire)

The Aerospace Corporation

Relativity Space

Thales Alenia Space

Rocket Lab

  • Long Beach, California222 open roles →

    Long Beach is Rocket Lab's headquarters and production complex, with an engine development center opened in 2023 for its Rutherford engine and the Archimedes engine of its Neutron rocket. (Source: Flying)

  • Middle River, Maryland38 open roles →

    Middle River is Rocket Lab's Space Structures Complex, 113,000 square feet in Lockheed Martin's former plant, where it makes carbon composite spacecraft buses, panels, dispensers and heat shields and parts of its Neutron rocket. (Source: Rocket Lab)

Northrop Grumman

BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems

Blue Origin

Impulse Space

  • Redondo Beach, California193 open roles →

    Redondo Beach is Impulse Space's headquarters, a 60,000-square-foot site where it designs, builds, tests and assembles most of its Mira and Helios vehicles. (Source: Impulse Space)

Astranis

OHB

ArianeGroup

  • Les Mureaux, France55 open roles →

    Les Mureaux, near Paris, is ArianeGroup's headquarters: it runs its main civil and defense launcher programs and produces metal structures for Ariane 6. (Source: ArianeGroup)

  • Vernon, France47 open roles →

    Vernon is where ArianeGroup designs, integrates and tests all its cryogenic launcher engines, and develops the reusable Prometheus engine. (Source: ArianeGroup)

  • Le Haillan, France27 open roles →

    Le Haillan is where ArianeGroup designs and produces solid rocket engines and their main parts, such as nozzles, for civil and military launchers. (Source: ArianeGroup)

  • Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, France39 open roles →

    Saint-Médard-en-Jalles is where ArianeGroup develops and integrates the solid propellant stages of military launchers and builds composite materials and high-pressure tanks. (Source: ArianeGroup)

Vast

AST SpaceMobile

Axiom Space

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Varda Space Industries

Firefly Aerospace

United Launch Alliance

Isar Aerospace

Ursa Major

ICEYE

Muon Space

  • San Jose, California86 open roles →

    San Jose is Muon Space's headquarters and satellite factory, 130,000 square feet, built to make up to 500 satellites a year. (Source: Muon Space)

Sierra Space

Intuitive Machines

Boeing

  • El Segundo, California62 open roles →

    El Segundo is home to Boeing's small satellite factory, run by its subsidiary Millennium Space Systems, on a Boeing site of about 1 million square feet. (Source: Via Satellite)

Stoke Space

Rocket Factory Augsburg

Vantor

Planet

Airbus Defence and Space

Where the largest space employers are

Where is SpaceX located?

Hawthorne houses SpaceX's mission control, its Falcon 9 manufacturing and offices; it was SpaceX's headquarters until August 2024. Starbase is where SpaceX manufactures and launches Starship, and it has been SpaceX's headquarters since 2024. McGregor is SpaceX's Rocket Development and Test Facility, where it develops and tests rocket engines. Bastrop is SpaceX's Starlink factory, opened in late 2023, which built its first million Starlink terminals in ten months. Vandenberg Space Force Base is SpaceX's Falcon launch site in California, used for highly inclined orbits. Redmond is SpaceX's Starlink satellite site: opened in 2015 for development, since 2018 a three-building campus that manufactures the satellites too. In Woodinville SpaceX leased a Starlink industrial site of about 198,000 square feet in 2025. Each site is described from its source below, with every SpaceX's job beside it.

Where is Lockheed Martin located?

Littleton is home to Lockheed Martin's Waterton Canyon space campus, for production, engineering and testing, where it built a $350 million satellite production facility. Cape Canaveral is where Lockheed Martin tests and sustains the U.S. Navy's Trident II D5 submarine-launched missiles. Each site is described from its source below, with every Lockheed Martin's job beside it.

Where is Amazon Leo located?

Redmond is Amazon's research and development site for its Leo (formerly Kuiper) satellites: 219,000 square feet, opened in 2020, able to build prototype and early satellites too. Kirkland is Amazon's factory for its Leo satellites: 172,000 square feet, planned to build up to four satellites a day. Each site is described from its source below, with every Amazon Leo's job beside it.

Where is The Aerospace Corporation located?

El Segundo is The Aerospace Corporation's California campus, where it is investing $100 million in its engineering, research and laboratory capabilities for national security space. Chantilly has been The Aerospace Corporation's headquarters since March 2024, when it moved from El Segundo. Each site is described from its source below, with every The Aerospace Corporation's job beside it.

Where is Relativity Space located?

Long Beach is Relativity Space's headquarters, where it designs, builds and tests its Terran R rocket. Each site is described from its source below, with every Relativity Space's job beside it.

Where is Thales Alenia Space located?

Toulouse is Thales Alenia Space's largest plant in Europe, which has built more than 300 telecom satellite payloads in 40 years and runs the ground segment of Europe's Galileo navigation system. Rome is Thales Alenia Space's satellite integration center, where its Space Smart Factory opened in 2025 to build around 100 satellites a year. Cannes is Thales Alenia Space's headquarters, at the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center. Each site is described from its source below, with every Thales Alenia Space's job beside it.