Far from the aerospace hotbed of Colorado’s Front Range, Agile Space Industries is scaling up its work in Durango on rocket thrusters that will be used to land on the moon.
Agile Space IndustriesThe company, started in 2009, designs, tests and manufactures propulsion systems for spacecraft. One of its products, the A110 thruster, has passed performance tests and met customers’ requirements and Agile expects a second product to do the same later this year.
Pearson said Agile’s revenues have grown more than 70% annually since 2020. The company has about 60 employees in Durango and five in Mount Pleasant, Pa., where the company manufactures three-dimensional metal parts. Industry veteran Daudi Barnes, Agile’s chief technology officer, started the company in 2009, which tested propulsion systems for NASA. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and others. Pearson said the company grew the testing facility in Durango over the next decade and began developing its own propulsion hardware and building its own thrusters.
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