Nick Rudnyk

The engineer you need might be in Toulouse. Or Munich. Or Bangalore. If your hiring strategy only reaches people within commuting distance of your office, you are competing for talent with one hand tied behind your back. Why International Hiring Matters for the Global Space Industry The space sector has always been international. Spacecraft programmes span multiple countries. Supply chains cross borders. Launch services operate from sites on six continents. Yet many space startups still hire...

Three quarters of employee departures are preventable. That means most of the engineers who left your startup did not have to leave. Something in the environment pushed them out, and that something was usually visible months before they handed in their notice. The Engineer Retention Problem That Starts at Hiring Most founders treat retention as a separate problem from recruitment. Hiring is one function. Keeping people is another. In practice, they are the same system. The promises made...

A quarter of the space workforce is nearing retirement age. Only 7% is under 25. That is not simply a hiring problem. It is a structural challenge for an industry trying to scale at unprecedented speed. Why the Space Industry Workforce Gap Is Getting Worse The Space Foundation's CEO put it plainly in 2026: "That is not a sustainable path." And the numbers back it up. Around 25% of the global space workforce is approaching retirement while the industry is scaling faster than at almost any...