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Europe is having a moment

Europe is having a moment

We are in orbit!

Jaime Martín
September 11, 2026

Hello hello,

Isar Aerospace just put Spectrum into orbit from Andøya on their second flight! In case you missed it (I highly doubt it though) this was the first privately funded launch company from continental Europe to reach orbit and deliver satellites. More below.

There’s been A LOT of launcher/rockets related news this week: seems we were on a European launcher week because it’s not just been Isar making the headlines…

But first… the jobs 👇👇👇👇

🚀 Spotlight: the best jobs on findaspacejob.com

Here are some of the best space jobs live today:

This week's picks

Data Operations DevOps Engineer @ SKAO (Cheshire, UK)
👉 Space engineers and astronomers also need devops support. If you like keeping serious data pipelines alive, this is the one.
FPGA Engineer @ EDGX (Ghent, Belgium)
👉 If you skipped it last week, it’s still open.
HR Policy and Employee Relations Advisor @ ESO (Garching, hybrid)
👉 Not an engineering role but you can get this job and hire me
Senior Electronics Design Engineer @ Revolv Space (Turin, remote)
👉 Senior electronics, contract, remote. Italian newspace. Remote is the bit that doesn’t come around often.
D2D 5G/6G Network Lead Mission Engineer @ ESA (Noordwijk)
👉 Device-to-device 5G/6G mission lead at ESTEC. One ESA role this week.
Bid Manager @ Rivada Space Networks (Munich, hybrid)
👉 You won’t hear this but this is among the most important roles in space companies. Be responsible for getting public funding flowing into your company… not a bad role I tell you
MSc thesis Internship — RNA Clock for Neuronal Ageing in Microgravity @ Exobiosphere (Luxembourg)
👉 Space biotech internship o.O build an RNA clock for neurons ageing faster in microgravity. Yes, that’s a real job title.

Not seeing your role? The full list is at findaspacejob.com.

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🗞️ This week in space

Isar Aerospace put Spectrum into orbit on Flight 2. If you want a quick recap: just check out this post below (it might not be formatted nicely but do check it out - the video is amazing)

Orbit Achieved. Payload Deployed. Less than eighteen months after Flight 1, Mission 'Onward and Upward' delivered our first customer satellites to orbit, making Isar Aerospace the first privately funded launch company from Continental Europe to do so. Along the way, we successfully achieved major flight milestones: ✅ MaxQ ✅ Stage separation ✅ Stage 2 engine ignition ✅ Fairing separation ✅ ORBIT ✅ Second engine cutoff and transfer orbit injection ✅ Circularization burn completed ✅ Payload released ✅ Contact with first satellites acquired, remaining in progress | 167 comments on LinkedIn

But don’t forget that the hard part starts now. Reaching orbit once is one (very positive) thing, but scaling, flying often enough to be competitive and eventually building a larger rocket is the real challenge. They’re already pointing that way, though (and that will mean a lot of hiring, FYI)

And speaking of a bigger rocket, another interesting thing happened: Stoke Space just closed a $1B to get Nova Pathfinder flying and push Nova Block 2 (a 15 t class, fully reusable launcher more on the Falcon 9 weightclass). Just compare the ambitions…

On another positive note though, closer to home, The Exploration Company raised $450m (largest European space Series C so far) for Nyx and the Storm engine. And yesterday in sunny Spain, PLD Space presented Miura 9: a bigger and reusable evolution to Miura 5 (as much as I like it, they still have to reach orbit with either rocket as the Miura 1 was a suborbital rocket… but it’s looking good!

The summary is that this was Europe’s launch week, basically 😎 next time you’ll come to Find a Space Job to search for all those roles ;)