The U.S. space is in a very bad situation right now.
Even the old space, including the news-face liar companies I’ve shot so badly, is busy organizing people.
Even if you study to die in space and get a job, you can’t earn enough money, but now you have to worry about whether you can get a job, so the atmosphere is low.
Since I work in this field, I feel a sense of reality every day, but it is hard for people to find a job right now. When a job comes out, a huge number of people are flocking, and people are coming even if they freeze or give them a little lower, let alone increase their salary unless they are the right person for them.
Space engineering graduates are finding jobs too difficult right now. No, it’s wise to say that it’s almost impossible.
- The article is about a 17 percent reduction (180 people) in the number of employees of Planet a few days ago, which has been making a fuss about taking pictures of the earth. The report is short of a 10 percent reduction (117 people) made last year.
- Maxar, another company that takes pictures of the earth and sells them. Sixty people have been cut this year.
- Satellogic, a satellite-making, globe-trotting company that produces and sells failing satellites. Last month, it decided to cut 30 percent of its workforce (70), and because the company is constantly squeezing people, the layoffs mean only half the company’s workforce compared to the end of last year, which many people, myself included, are on the verge of bankruptcy.
- JPL, which cut nearly 600 people this year, has recently cut 60 more, and news has it that at least 500 more will have to be cut. This will result in more than a thousand people being cut (excluding hundreds, as many as almost 1,000 cantractors, already dispatched from cut partners). In 2019, the number of people who had exceeded 6000 fell below 5000.
- Northrop Grumman, whom I worked with until recently. Recently, one person was cut from the L.A. Staff reduction from 7000 to 6000. Reports regarding the Space Force program.
- Boeing participating in the Artemis program. About 3,500 people in Alabama’s office work for the Space Launch System (SLS), where they have decided to cut staff. The reason is that NASA’s Artemis is behind schedule, and the exact number of people who will be cut is yet to be known.
The list above is the recent dismissals I remember, but the small dismissals happen every day, so they don’t even make an article.