Workforce
2010 – Workforce
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2012- Workforce
Trends in the global space workforce continue to be mixed, with the U.S. space workforce contracting for the sixth year in a row while space workforces in Japan and Europe…
2016 – Other Space Employment
Exhibit 3u provides a snapshot of the workforce sizes in space agencies around the world. Direct comparisons among agencies should be avoided or undertaken with care, as differences in size…
2017 – Indian Space Employment
India’s Department of Space, which includes the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), employed 16,072 employees in 2017, a decrease of nearly 5% from a total of 16,902 employees in 2016.…
2016 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Employment
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) workforce remained constant from 2015 to 2016, shedding just eight employees. Of the 1,529 space professionals working at JAXA in 2016, nearly 70% were…
2016 – Japanese Space Industry Employment
The Japanese space workforce grew by 5.1% from 2014 to 2015, adding 423 workers. This continued a trend of growth that began after a low point for the industry in…
2016 – European Space Agency Employment
At 26.5%, the percentage of female employees is slightly higher in the European Space Agency (ESA) than the European space workforce as a whole, but the proportion of young professionals…
2015 – European Space Industry Employment
The European space workforce included 38,435 workers in 2015, according to Eurospace, an association of the European space manufacturing industry. Eurospace conducts annual surveys of European firms involved in design,…
2017 – U.S. Army Space Workforce Update
The U.S. Army maintains a sizeable force of soldiers and civilians with training and experience in the space domain, with 4,948 space cadre billets in FY 2018. This was…
2016 – U.S. National Security Workforce
The U.S. national security space workforce is composed of federal employees working across all branches of the Department of Defense as well as the intelligence agencies. Together, there are more...…