Impulse Space expands Colorado presence

WASHINGTON — Space mobility company Impulse Space has opened a Colorado facility to support development of its spacecraft.

The company, based in Southern California, said March 10 it opened a 20,000-square-foot manufacturing facility near Boulder, Colorado, to develop hardware and subsystems for its Mira and Helios transfer vehicles.

Impulse said the Colorado facility will be responsible for the guidance, navigation and control (GNC) systems for those spacecraft, which handle precision maneuvers, including rendezvous and proximity operations.

The new facility will also produce some spacecraft components using precision machining equipment. That includes valves and pumps for use on the Helios transfer vehicle and its Deneb main engine.

“Since moving into the new facility, we have manufactured components for Deneb pumps and Helios valves,” Kevin Arruda, manufacturing lead and Colorado site lead at Impulse, said in the statement. “We are now scaling in-house valve manufacturing, inspection, assembly and testing.”

The new facility expands Impulse’s presence in Colorado established three years ago. That team had worked on GNC technologies used on the company’s first three Mira missions, called LEO Express 1, 2 and 3.

Impulse Space raised $300 million in a Series C round in June 2025. The company said it would use the funding to scale up production of its Mira and Helios vehicles. The company said it is seeing strong demand for both vehicles from government and commercial customers, including interest in Mira for space defense and space control missions.

The company also last year teased a concept last fall for a lunar lander using a Helios tug paired with a new lander that Impulse would design. Impulse said the lander could fill a gap in delivering cargo to the lunar surface between small robotic landers and the larger landers Blue Origin and SpaceX are developing for Artemis crewed missions.

The company said in its announcement of the new Colorado facility that development of GNC systems for landing and robotic mobility technologies is underway there.