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You know that defence and space are pretty much the same industry, right? Do you like the idea of working on satellites/launchers? Not for spacex obviously. But there are others. It's a pretty great career. Best bit is you get to fire the most annoying projects literally into fucking outer fucking space at the end.
You can't do this with your boss though.
I mean, most are the same DoD contractors...
I'm based in Europe so I don't know too well how it works in the US, but if you work for eg Airbus space over here, you won't be working on aircraft or missiles, just space.
Those might exist, but the big players are all focused on the government work. It wouldn't surprise me if the avionics in a commercial Boeing plane are the same as the military with a few bits removed.
I think that's probably true. But the avionics in a satellite are wildly different. And, at least where I work, we use a lot of FPGA.