In-space logistics provider The Exploration Company has launched a large recruitment drive. The company is currently hiring for 51 open positions.
Founded in 2021, the Exploration Company is developing a spacecraft called Nyx that will be capable of carrying cargo and crew to and from space or acting as a free flyer to supplement the capability of the International Space Station. As of earlier this month, the company had grown to approximately 130 employees.
The Exploration Company launched its first subscale demonstrator aboard the inaugural launch of Ariane 6. It is now working towards launching its next sub-scale demonstrator mission in 2025, a full-scale prototype in 2027, and a mission to the lunar surface by 2029. With this ambitious timeline in place, the company is moving to bolster its ranks to deliver on it.
The company currently has 51 open positions across its Assembly, Integration, and Testing (AIT), Avionics, Flight Software, Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC), Propulsion, System, Vehicle Design, and Operations departments. Unsurprisingly, there is also a vacancy for a recruitment specialist to supplement what must be a very overworked Talent Acquisition team.
While many of the open positions are focused on the design, assembly, and testing of Nyx ahead of its 2027 debut, the company is also hiring for its CNES-backed Typhoon rocket engine development. A total of five of the open positions are focused on growing this team.
Typhoon will be a reusable methane-powered staged combustion rocket engine capable of producing 200 tonnes of thrust, which would put it a similar range as the SpaceX Raptor engine. It will, as a result, not be used aboard Nyx. What it will be used for is currently not well defined by the company. The most obvious application would be a reusable launch vehicle, potentially a successor to Ariane 6.
