Where the work is
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
- Hawthorne, California692 open roles →
Hawthorne houses SpaceX's mission control, its Falcon 9 manufacturing and offices; it was SpaceX's headquarters until August 2024. (Source: Wikipedia, SpaceX)
- Starbase, Texas358 open roles →
Starbase is where SpaceX manufactures and launches Starship, and it has been SpaceX's headquarters since 2024. (Source: Wikipedia, SpaceX)
- McGregor, Texas66 open roles →
McGregor is SpaceX's Rocket Development and Test Facility, where it develops and tests rocket engines. (Source: Wikipedia, SpaceX)
- Bastrop, Texas499 open roles →
Bastrop is SpaceX's Starlink factory, opened in late 2023, which built its first million Starlink terminals in ten months. (Source: Aviation Week)
- Vandenberg, California31 open roles →
Vandenberg Space Force Base is SpaceX's Falcon launch site in California, used for highly inclined orbits. (Source: Wikipedia, SpaceX)
- Redmond, Washington375 open roles →
Redmond is SpaceX's Starlink satellite site: opened in 2015 for development, since 2018 a three-building campus that manufactures the satellites too. (Source: Wikipedia, Starlink)
- Woodinville, Washington69 open roles →
In Woodinville SpaceX leased a Starlink industrial site of about 198,000 square feet in 2025. (Source: Kidder Mathews)
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
- El Segundo, California266 open roles →
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. (Source: The Aerospace Corporation)
- Chantilly, Virginia88 open roles →
Chantilly has been The Aerospace Corporation's headquarters since March 2024, when it moved from El Segundo. (Source: The Aerospace Corporation)
Relativity Space
- Long Beach, California319 open roles →
Long Beach is Relativity Space's headquarters, where it designs, builds and tests its Terran R rocket. (Source: Wikipedia, Relativity Space)
Thales Alenia Space
- Toulouse, France174 open roles →
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. (Source: Thales Alenia Space)
- Rome, Italy38 open roles →
Rome is Thales Alenia Space's satellite integration center, where its Space Smart Factory opened in 2025 to build around 100 satellites a year. (Source: Defence Industry Europe)
- Cannes, France93 open roles →
Cannes is Thales Alenia Space's headquarters, at the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center. (Source: Wikipedia, 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
- Redondo Beach, California128 open roles →
Redondo Beach is home to Space Park, Northrop Grumman's satellite design and production campus (TRW's until 2002), where the James Webb Space Telescope was assembled. (Source: Northrop Grumman)
- Chandler, Arizona87 open roles →
Chandler is Northrop Grumman's launch vehicle campus, 633,000 square feet, where most of its launch vehicles are designed, built and tested. (Source: Area Development)
- Corinne, Utah44 open roles →
Corinne is the address of Northrop Grumman's Promontory plant, where it makes solid rocket motors. (Source: Air & Space Forces Magazine)
BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems
- Broomfield, Colorado73 open roles →
Broomfield is the headquarters of BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems, the former Ball Aerospace, which BAE bought in 2024. (Source: BizWest)
- Boulder, Colorado77 open roles →
Boulder is BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems' large campus, the former Ball Aerospace's. (Source: BizWest)
- Westminster, Colorado66 open roles →
Westminster is a production site of BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems, the former Ball Aerospace. (Source: BizWest)
Blue Origin
- Kent, Washington6 open roles →
Kent is Blue Origin's headquarters, where it develops and builds rockets. (Source: Wikipedia, Blue Origin)
- Huntsville, Alabama162 open roles →
Huntsville is Blue Origin's engine factory, for high-rate production of its BE-4 and BE-3U engines. (Source: Wikipedia, Blue Origin)
- Merritt Island, Florida
Merritt Island, at Exploration Park, is where Blue Origin builds New Glenn's first and second stages and its payload fairings. (Source: Wikipedia, Blue Origin)
- Cape Canaveral, Florida
Cape Canaveral is where Blue Origin tests and launches New Glenn, from Launch Complex 36. (Source: Wikipedia, Blue Origin)
- Van Horn, Texas30 open roles →
Van Horn is near Blue Origin's Launch Site One, where New Shepard flies and BE-3 and BE-4 engines are tested. (Source: Wikipedia, 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
- San Francisco, California182 open roles →
San Francisco is the headquarters of Astranis, which makes small geostationary communications satellites. (Source: Wikipedia, Astranis)
OHB
- Bremen, Germany145 open roles →
Bremen is OHB's home and satellite factory, where OHB System assembled most of Europe's Galileo navigation satellites. (Source: Spaceflight Now)
- Augsburg, Germany36 open roles →
Augsburg is home to OHB's MT Aerospace, which builds tanks and structures for the Ariane 6 rocket. (Source: MT Aerospace)
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
- Long Beach, California168 open roles →
Long Beach is Vast's headquarters, a 115,000-square-foot site where it builds the Haven-1 commercial space station. (Source: Wikipedia, Vast)
AST SpaceMobile
- Midland, Texas130 open roles →
Midland is AST SpaceMobile's headquarters, where most of its people work and where it builds its BlueBird satellites. (Source: AST SpaceMobile)
Axiom Space
- Houston, Texas120 open roles →
Houston is Axiom Space's headquarters, where its mission control center runs its crewed missions. (Source: Wikipedia, Axiom Space)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- Pasadena, California118 open roles →
Pasadena is the address of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a federally funded research and development center managed by Caltech, whose campus lies mostly in La Cañada Flintridge. (Source: Wikipedia, Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Varda Space Industries
- El Segundo, California116 open roles →
El Segundo is Varda Space Industries' headquarters and production facility, where it builds, integrates and tests its W-Series capsules that process pharmaceuticals in microgravity. (Source: Wikipedia, Varda Space Industries)
Firefly Aerospace
- Briggs, Texas61 open roles →
Briggs is Firefly's Rocket Ranch, a 200-acre site where it tests rocket engines on six test stands. (Source: Firefly Aerospace)
- Cedar Park, Texas53 open roles →
Cedar Park is Firefly's headquarters, a 144,000-square-foot campus with a spacecraft cleanroom, enlarged in 2026. (Source: Firefly Aerospace)
United Launch Alliance
- Centennial, Colorado73 open roles →
Centennial is ULA's headquarters, home of its program management, rocket engineering, testing and launch support. (Source: Wikipedia, United Launch Alliance)
- Decatur, Alabama40 open roles →
Decatur is ULA's rocket factory, the one plant where its production is consolidated. (Source: Wikipedia, United Launch Alliance)
Isar Aerospace
- Parsdorf, Germany99 open roles →
Parsdorf, near Munich, is Isar Aerospace's new headquarters and factory, built for series production of its Spectrum rocket. (Source: Isar Aerospace)
Ursa Major
- Berthoud, Colorado96 open roles →
Berthoud is Ursa Major's headquarters, where it engineers, tests and builds its rocket engines. (Source: Wikipedia, Ursa Major)
ICEYE
- Espoo, Finland88 open roles →
Espoo is the home of ICEYE, which builds radar imaging (SAR) satellites under 100 kg. (Source: Wikipedia, 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
- Louisville, Colorado86 open roles →
Louisville is where Sierra Space builds its Dream Chaser spaceplane. (Source: Denver7)
Intuitive Machines
- Houston, Texas69 open roles →
Houston is the headquarters of Intuitive Machines, which builds the Nova-C lunar lander and has its Lunar Operations Facility at Houston Spaceport. (Source: Wikipedia, 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
- Kent, Washington59 open roles →
Kent is Stoke Space's headquarters, a 168,000-square-foot assembly facility planned as its mission control too. (Source: Wikipedia, Stoke Space)
Rocket Factory Augsburg
- Augsburg, Germany39 open roles →
Augsburg is the headquarters of Rocket Factory Augsburg, which is developing the RFA One rocket for small satellites. (Source: Wikipedia, Rocket Factory Augsburg)
Vantor
- Westminster, Colorado32 open roles →
Westminster is the headquarters of Vantor, the space imagery company called Maxar Intelligence until October 2025. (Source: Wikipedia, Vantor)
Planet
- San Francisco, California30 open roles →
San Francisco is the headquarters of Planet, which designs and builds the small Dove satellites of its Earth-imaging fleet. (Source: Wikipedia, Planet Labs)
Airbus Defence and Space
- Stevenage, United Kingdom14 open roles →
Stevenage is Airbus Defence and Space's UK space headquarters, for satellite design, manufacturing and operations. (Source: The Manufacturer)
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.