Best job title we've ever posted

Good morning!

The money keeps flowing. ESA dropped €700M on next-gen radar satellites, France handed Eutelsat €138M for military comms and Exolaunch just got acquired. More on all of that below.

But first: the jobs. Genuinely fun batch this week, including what might be the best job title we've ever featured. Let's go 👇

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Some of the best space jobs live right now:

⭐ Featured Space Jobs

• AIT Electrical Engineer @ ALTEN (Friedrichshafen, Germany)
  👉 Friedrichshafen (good luck pronouncing that if you’re not German:) is one of Germany's key satellite manufacturing hubs… and ALTEN is right in the middle of it. AIT on real flight hardware never disappoints.

• NC Manufacturing Engineer / NC Process Engineer @ ALTEN (Donauwörth, Germany)
  👉 CNC programming, process engineering, aerospace production floor. Proper hands-on manufacturing work in one of Germany's aerospace hotspots.

This week's (also ok) picks

• Balloon Manufacturing Specialist @ Involve Space (Italy)
  👉 Yes: balloon manufacturing specialist. That can be a real job (but for stratospheric balloons tho). And to be honest, this might be the best job title we've ever featured.

• PhD Position in Numerical Modelling of Debris Flows @ ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
  👉 Funded PhD at one of the best technical universities in the world. If you need more convincing than that, call me and I’ll try my best

• Junior Electronics Design Engineer @ Revolv Space (Italy)
  👉 Revolv again, and again remote. Junior role this time — if you liked their AIT lead last week, here's the entry-level version. Same startup energy, same remote flexibility.

• Mission Manager @ ESA (Noordwijk)
  👉 "Mission Manager" on a CV speaks for itself. One of those ESA roles where the job title alone does the selling.

• Satellite System Architect @ Panura (Germany)
  👉 Panura is a startup you probably haven't heard of yet, but they are definitely not lacking ambition. Worth a look before everyone else finds them.

• SKA-Mid Management Accountant @ SKAO (South Africa)
  👉 Non-engineers: management accountant for the world's largest radio telescope. In Cape Town (a bit south of Europe only… we can make an exception this time, no?

• Cyber Security and Forensics Specialist (3 posts) @ ESA (Italy)
  👉 Three openings, not one. Space cyber security is growing fast and it’s bound to become one of the hot topics in space (if it’s not one already)

• IT Specialist Automation & Systems Management @ European Southern Observatory (Chile)
  👉 Not ESA but ESO ;) IT automation for one of the world's top observatories, based in Santiago (like the previous one; a bit south of Europe if geography isn’t your strong point haha. But if you ever wanted a reason to move to South America, here it is.

Should we call this the exception week?

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🗞️ This week in space

Sometimes we enter into what I call "funding periods" where we see a lot of money moving around in a short time... and we're in one of those right now. Last week we saw ICEYE closing a €1B round, Isar Aerospace raising €270M and NewOrbit Space raising another $18.5M.

Well this week ESA awarded Thales Alenia Space €700M to build the next generation of Sentinel-1 radar satellites (which "in theory" should provide 4x the resolution of the current ones plus polar coverage). And France handed Eutelsat €138M for military comms via OneWeb; which is interesting also considering that Europe should (???) be waiting for IRIS2 to come online in 2030. Despite the IRIS2 deadline jokes (more below), these are massive contracts, both of which mean plenty of new jobs at Thales, Airbus and across the supply chain.

In launch news: Exolaunch is being acquired! For those who don't know, Exolaunch is a German space company which is behind pretty much every SpaceX rideshare mission. The reason for the acquisistion? Launch demand is outstripping supply so badly that Exolaunch is buying its own Falcon 9 launches for dedicated rideshare missions. As their CEO put it: "every kilogram of upmass you can make available will be sold." That tells you everything about where the industry is headed. Massive congratulations to all the Exolaunch team!

Speaking of launches, we had a very good one this week with Ariane 6 launching another batch of Amazon Leo sats.

Also worth a mention: Optera, an Australian SDA startup building neuromorphic sensors (brain-like sensors that track movement instead of collecting massive image dumps), just raised £3M and is opening in the UK. Comparatively very small but very interesting technology; and now in Europe, which is even better.

And since you're all probably wondering: $SPCX is sitting around ~$183 after pulling back from its highs. Not bad for week one, so if you invested at the IPO price you're still happy :)

And about that IRIS2 2030 deadline I mentioned... it's such a running joke in the industry that even Google's AI will explain the meme to you if you search for it:

That's all for this week.

Until next week,
Jaime

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