{"id":48965,"date":"2025-06-17T18:15:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/satellite-developer-portal-space-opens-first-manufacturing-facility\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T18:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:15:23","slug":"satellite-developer-portal-space-opens-first-manufacturing-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/satellite-developer-portal-space-opens-first-manufacturing-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Developer Portal Space Opens First Manufacturing Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Satellite developer&nbsp;<strong>Portal Space Systems<\/strong>&nbsp;on Tuesday said it has opened a 50,000 square-foot manufacturing facility, the startup\u2019s first as it prepares to begin production of its highly maneuverable Supernova spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The facility in Bothell, Wash., near Seattle is three miles from its existing 8,000 square-foot design and testing hub where it is developing Supernova and its subsystems. Portal Space has 35 employees.<\/p>\n<p>Portal Space expects its manufacturing center to begin operations in late 2026 and producing one spacecraft a month by 2027 to meet customer demand. The facility, which will include manufacturing, assembly, integration and testing, research and development, and advanced engineering, will bring more than 100 new jobs over two to three years, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith growing demand from both our commercial and defense partners, this new facility marks the next strategic step in Portal\u2019s evolution,\u201d Jeff Thornburg, the company\u2019s CEO, said in a statement. \u201cBy expanding our footprint in Bothell, we\u2019re doubling down on local talent, proximity to core operations, and a growing aerospace ecosystem supported by state leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Portal\u2019s first mission to orbit is planned for early 2026 aboard a Momentus&nbsp;Vigoride orbital service vehicle. That mission will be used to validate key subsystems for Supernova.<\/p>\n<p data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">In April, Portal announced a $17.5 million seed round to support the full-scale demonstration of the transorbital Supernova.&nbsp;Previously, the company raised $5.5 million in a pre-seed round.<\/p>\n<p data-uw-rm-sr=\"\"><em>This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite developer&nbsp;Portal Space Systems&nbsp;on Tuesday said it has opened a 50,000 square-foot manufacturing facility, the startup\u2019s first as it prepares to begin production of its highly maneuverable Supernova spacecraft. The facility in Bothell, Wash., near Seattle is three miles from its existing 8,000 square-foot design and testing hub where it is developing Supernova and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}