Insider Brief:
- ARKA has completed a major expansion of its Danbury, Connecticut headquarters.
- The recent expansion is part of ARKA’s ongoing capital investment in its engineering and manufacturing facility, which has totaled nearly $100 million over the past twelve years.
- The Danbury site has added 31,000 square feet of new cleanroom manufacturing space and modernized an additional 15,000 square feet.
ARKA Group LP, a leading aerospace company, has completed a major expansion of its Danbury, Connecticut headquarters. The two-year, 14,000-square-foot expansion aims to enhance the company’s production capabilities for smallsat systems, payloads, and optical coating technologies for ground-based and space-based scientific and national security missions.
The $85 million expansion provides ARKA with modern cleanrooms for rapid alignment, integration, and testing of sub-meter aperture electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) telescopes and payloads. The optimized layout, combined with the latest digital engineering and manufacturing tools enables the company to perform multi-shift payload production more efficiently. Furthermore, the addition also features a custom-designed facility that allows ARKA to produce world-class, resilient, space-qualified, thin-film coatings on optics for various missions.
“This expansion supports our increased production of sub-meter telescopes and payloads, keeping the eyes in the sky that our nation and allies depend upon for security, particularly as proliferated low earth orbit constellations grow,” said Charlie Schaub, Senior Vice President of ARKA’s Space & Defense business.
The recent expansion is part of ARKA’s ongoing capital investment in its engineering and manufacturing facility, which has totaled nearly $100 million over the past twelve years. During this time, the Danbury site has added 31,000 square feet of new cleanroom manufacturing space and modernized an additional 15,000 square feet.
