Northwood Space opens 135,000-square-foot antenna factory in Torrance
Northwood Space
Northwood Space opened a new California factory that more than fivefolds its antenna manufacturing footprint and adds 400 jobs.
what happened
Northwood Space opened a 135,000-square-foot factory and headquarters in Torrance, California on August 31, up from 25,000 square feet, with production moving in during October, per the company's own announcement. The facility will mass-produce the company's Portal phased-array and Prism parabolic ground antennas, along with printed circuit boards, feeds, amplifiers and other RF hardware in-house, and is expected to add 400 jobs over three years, per Northwood.
why it matters
Northwood is betting that ground segment, not just satellites, needs mass manufacturing to keep pace with proliferated constellations; a dedicated factory sized to build hundreds of antennas a year signals it expects sustained demand from commercial and government customers building out multi-site ground networks. For satellite operators and government buyers evaluating ground infrastructure vendors, in-house production at this scale is a capacity and lead-time signal that sets Northwood apart from ground-station integrators that outsource antenna manufacturing.
for who
Satellite operators and agencies sourcing ground station capacity
signal-to-noise
quick facts
- Companies
- Northwood Space
- Category
- product
- Impact
- notable
- SNR
- 4 / 5
- Event date
- 2026-08-31
- Published
- 2026-09-01 05:27 UTC