ARKA Completes $85 Million Investment to Expand Connecticut Facility
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
DANBURY, Conn., April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ARKA Group, L.P. recently completed a major expansion of its 550,000 square-foot facility in Danbury, Connecticut, where the company is headquartered, to expand production capability of smallsat systems, payloads and optical coating capabilities.
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- DANBURY, Conn., April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ARKA Group, L.P. recently completed a major expansion of its 550,000 square-foot facility in Danbury, Connecticut, where the company is headquartered, to expand production capability of smallsat systems, payloads and optical coating capabilities.
- The two-year, 14,000-foot expansion provides modern cleanrooms for rapid alignment, integration and test of sub-meter aperture EO/IR telescopes and payloads.
- The addition also features a custom-designed facility enabling world-class, resilient, space-qualified, thin film coatings on optics for all missions.
- The expansion brings to closure the most recent tranche of capital investment in ARKA's engineering and manufacturing facility, which has totaled nearly $100 million over the past dozen years.