Hubs & housing
Jobs and housing by launch site
Space jobs cluster around a handful of launch sites and factories. Each guide shows every open role nearby and, starting with Starbase and the Space Coast, furnished places to live.
Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center and Merritt Island: launch operations for SpaceX, Blue Origin, ULA and dozens of suppliers.
Where SpaceX builds, tests and launches Starship. Most crews live in Brownsville, Port Isabel and South Padre Island.
Hawthorne, El Segundo, Torrance and Long Beach: the densest cluster of rocket and satellite companies in the US.
Kent, Redmond, Bothell and Tukwila: Blue Origin's headquarters plus Starlink, Stoke and a fast-growing satellite scene.
Centennial, Louisville, Broomfield and Colorado Springs: Space Force, defense primes and satellite startups.
Starlink's terminal factory in Bastrop and a growing cluster of space and hardware companies around Austin.
Satellite, Earth-observation and space-software companies from San Francisco to San Jose.
Herndon, Chantilly and Reston: national-security space, geospatial intelligence and policy.
Rocket City: NASA Marshall, Blue Origin's engine plant and a deep defense contractor base.
Johnson Space Center, Axiom Space and the Houston Spaceport.
Blue Origin's launch site near Van Horn and AST SpaceMobile's satellite factory in Midland.
SpaceX's rocket development and test facility near Waco.
Engine testing at NASA Stennis Space Center.
West Coast launch operations at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Test sites and the Mojave Air & Space Port.
Rocket Lab's US launch site and NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.