Space Communications Job Searching

A Long List of Companies and Organizations that Hire Space Communicators

This list is now being updated in a new location.

Over the years, I’ve updated this list with new companies and contractors. It’s the top resource eager students and early career communicators ask for: Where should I look for a space job?

I’m looking forward to sharing fresh content in “The SciComm Space,” but please enjoy this oldie but goodie.

General Tips for Job Searching:

• Know your skillset. There’s a wide range of communications skills including writing, editing, and social media. Other skills could be relevant too depending like photography, podcasting, and videography.

• Know common phrases. There is a wide array of communications roles. Varying the terms used in searching for potential jobs. Frequently I look for communications specialist, public relations specialist, digital content specialist, and strategic communications specialist. Some companies simply call communications roles technical specialist or brand marketers.

• Read the full job description. Since there are so many kinds of roles, always read the job description and cross-reference your skillset list. If you feel like you can perform most of the duties (and you’re interested), apply!

• Experience is as important as Education. Focus on the duties over the education requirements. If you have experience writing but don’t have a communications education, there is nothing wrong with that. Plenty of highly successful people enter science communications without traditional degrees. Start a blog, test social media ideas, gain the experience you want.

• Submit that resume if you meet most of the qualifications (and you’re interested). Before hitting the job market for the first time, I read a Harvard Business Review article that most women don’t apply unless they are 100% qualified. Men, by contrast, generally apply if they meet 60% of the skillsets. My personal rule became if I met 80% of the skills required, I’d apply. I could always learn additional skills, like software, on the job.

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Job Boards and Blasts

• Trajectory Maneuvers

• We Work in Space

Federal Agencies with Space Connections

Civil servants, or federal positions, will be listed on USAjobs.gov. Here are some centers and programs that work with space.

• NOAA: GOES Program,

• NASA: Ames Research Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center, Glenn Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Katherine Johnson IV and V Facility, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, Langley Research Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters, NASA Stennis Space Center, Wallops Flight Facility

• USGS: Landsat Program, EROS Center

• Military: Space Command, Air Force

• Other: Federal Administrative Service, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Air and Space Museum

Contractors to Federal Agencies

Contract positions will be listed on these sites or aggregate sites.

• Multi-Agency Contractors: KBR Technologies, C2G Inc, SSAI, Jacobs, Booz Allen Hamilton, Intuitive Machines, Summit Technologies & Solutions, VeriCon Technical Services, COLSA, HX5,

• Communications Focus: Media Fusion, Barrios Technology, ARES Corporation, MORI Associates,

• Education Focus: LMI Solutions, USRA,

• Health Focus: Jes Tech,

• More Contractors: MRI Technologies, SAIC, ASRC Federal, Alutiiq, Delaware North, Leidos, Odyssey Space Research, Rothe Development, Cactus Communications, CGI, AS&M,

Space Organizations

• Multi-interest Companies: Honeywell, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Ball Aerospace, Boeing, RTX (Raytheon), RocketLab, Collins Aerospace, Airbus, The Aerospace Corporation, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Oliver Wyman, Mercury Systems, BAE Systems, GE Aerospace, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Axiom Space, Relativity, Amentum,

• Rocket Companies: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, United Launch Alliance, Firefly Aerospace, Astra, Vaya Space

• Space Station Companies: VAST,

• Lunar Missions: Astrobotic,

• Satellite and Geospatial Companies: Planet Labs, Maxar Technologies, Spin Launch, Descartes Labs, Astranis, Muon Space, Star Catcher,

• Aerospace Companies: Hermeus, Sierra Space

• Manufacturing Companies: Redwire,

• Small Companies: OrbitFab,

• Research Groups: STSci, ISS National Lab

• Space Medicine: OSMED,

• To Be Catergorized: Vaya Space, Astrobotic

Organizations with Space

• Advertising and Public Relations: Griffins Communications, The Aviation Agency,

• Advocacy Groups: The Planetary Society, X Prize Foundation, National Space Society, Space Foundation, The Mars Society, Project Possum, AmericaView, International Institute for Astronautical Sciences

• Reporting: Space.com, SpaceNews, Stories of Space Project

• Museums: Space Center Houston, U.S. Space & Rocket Center (AL), Cradle of Aviation Museum.

• Space Grant Universities: Texas A&M University, Johns Hopkins University, California Institute of Technology

• Universities: Oklahoma State Univeristy, University of Texas, International Space University