US aerospace and defense company Ursa Major opened a facility in Longmont on August 20 to take over production of spacecraft avionics and in-space propulsion systems. The facility can accommodate more than 125 employees.
Moving this work from the company’s Berthoud headquarters will also create more manufacturing room there for liquid rocket engines, hypersonic systems, and solid rocket motors.
New facility adds clean rooms and testing capacity
The Longmont site includes dedicated welding and manufacturing laboratories, an environmental testing lab, an ISO 7 hard-walled clean room, and an adjoining ISO 8 gowning room.
ISO clean-room classifications specify the permitted concentration of airborne particles within a controlled space. Such environments are used while manufacturing and handling hardware that must be protected from contamination…