SPACENEWS / SAN FRANCISCO – York Space Systems announced the opening May 19 of its new manufacturing facility in Denver, a key step in the firm’s campaign to expand mass manufacturing of small satellites.

FORBES / A startup company's new flexible-path spacecraft system is doing well during its first few weeks in orbit. York Space Systems announced Thursday (May 16) that its S-CLASS spacecraft bus passed initial testing or commissioning.

SPACENEWS / SAN FRANCISCO – York Space Systems announced plans Jan. 7 to conduct a series of missions to rapidly flight qualify government and industry satellite payloads, subsystems and components. York’s first flight in the new Hydra Mission Series is scheduled to launch in December 2020.

SPACENEWS / COLORADO SPRINGS AND FREMONT, CA – Rocket Lab is preparing to launch in May three U.S. military satellites including the Army Harbinger mission as part of the Defense Department’s Rapid Agile Launch Initiative.

SPACENEWS / san francisco – York Space Systems announced plans Oct. 29 to expand production facilities for its S-Class satellites. The Denver-based company that currently produces ten to 12 satellites per year will be able to produce 50 satellites in 2020 and hundreds of satellites annually in the future, York Executive Chairman Chuck Beames told SpaceNews.

FORBES / CubeSats have opened up low Earth orbit in ways that we couldn't have imagined since the first ones launched in 2003. They've ushered in a revolution of small spacecraft, each optimized to carry out a specific mission using small computer components and electronics.