{"id":59959,"date":"2020-04-13T21:59:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/general-atomics-opens-new-colorado-facility\/"},"modified":"2020-04-13T21:59:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:59:43","slug":"general-atomics-opens-new-colorado-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/general-atomics-opens-new-colorado-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"General Atomics Opens New Colorado Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems <\/strong>has opened a new spacecraft development, integration and test factory outside of Denver, the company announced April 9.<\/p>\n<p>The new, 33,000-square- foot facility in Centennial, Colorado, triples the company\u2019s capacity for satellite production, integration, and testing for single to constellation-sized orders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColorado is home to the nation\u2019s second largest space economy, and we are excited to continue to expand our development, production and mission capabilities in the region to meet the growing needs of the military, intelligence community, civil and commercial satellite communities,\u201d President Scott Forney said. \u201cWith this new, contemporary facility, we can readily produce the quantities needed to meet the critical demand for small satellites in the rapidly growing space industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new Centennial factory also includes an expanded mission operations center to support on-orbit satellite and customer payload commissioning and operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis facility provides the ability to enhance our portfolio of cost-efficient, flexible small satellite platforms, payloads, and integrated systems,\u201d said Nick Bucci, vice president of Missile Defense and Space Systems.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared in our sister publication Defense Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems has opened a new spacecraft development, integration and test factory outside of Denver, the company announced April 9. The new, 33,000-square- foot facility in Centennial, Colorado, triples the company\u2019s capacity for satellite production, integration, and testing for single to constellation-sized orders. \u201cColorado is home to the nation\u2019s second largest space economy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59960,"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-59959","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\/59959"}],"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=59959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}