UX design for complex space and defense applications
Rocket Communications is a UX-focused design firm built around simplifying highly complex enterprise and space applications. The tech stack—Figma, Angular, D3.js, Java, Go—reflects a hybrid product-and-services model where design tooling sits alongside web and backend engineering. Hiring is accelerating across engineering and design roles with a mid-to-senior weighted mix, suggesting both execution on active projects and capability-building to expand into new government and defense contracts.
Rocket Communications designs user experiences for complex enterprise and space applications. Founded in 1992 and based in San Francisco, the firm operates at the intersection of UX design and software engineering, with a 51–200 person team. The company has established itself as a trusted partner for large commercial software vendors and, increasingly, for U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command, where Rocket stewards the Astro User Experience Design System—the standard UX framework for space ground systems applications. Current operational focus spans expanding presence across Department of Defense branches, capturing new business opportunities, and solving mission-critical government application challenges.
Figma, Angular, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, D3.js, ServiceNow, Jira, Go, Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, C++. Weighted toward design (Figma), frontend (Angular, D3.js, JavaScript), and backend (Go, Java, Python).
A UX design framework for space ground systems applications, co-created and stewarded by Rocket Communications in partnership with U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command. It is the preferred standard for SSC-developed space applications.
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