{"id":223363,"date":"2026-03-13T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/orbion-space-technology-acquired-by-york-space-systems\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:30:10","slug":"orbion-space-technology-acquired-by-york-space-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/orbion-space-technology-acquired-by-york-space-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbion Space Technology acquired by York Space Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uppermichiganssource.com\/2026\/03\/13\/were-going-grow-orbion-space-technology-acquired-by-york-space-systems\/\">Orbion Space Technology acquired by York Space Systems<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uppermichiganssource.com\/2026\/03\/13\/were-going-grow-orbion-space-technology-acquired-by-york-space-systems\/\">https:\/\/www.uppermichiganssource.com\/2026\/03\/13\/were-going-grow-orbion-space-technology-acquired-by-york-space-systems\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-13 18:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.uppermichiganssource.com\">www.uppermichiganssource.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) &#8211; Orbion Space Technology CEO and Co-founder Brad King says the company is not going anywhere following the announcement of its acquisition by Colorado-based contractor York Space Systems. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOur roots are planted even deeper now,\u201d King said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to grow; we\u2019re going to add more jobs, and the space economy is part of the U.P. permanently.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">King says YSS has been a customer for three years, and acquisition talks started in October. He also says that while the company has been acquired, it will maintain its identity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe keep building our products that are going to go out into the solar system and orbit and help the Department of Defense,\u201d King continued. \u201cWe just do it now with a much stronger financial backing and a partnership we can use to get even more business.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Orbion develops in-space propulsion technology, specifically hall-effect thrusters. Its customers attach them to satellites for when they orbit the Earth. Co-Founder and CTO Jason Sommerville says the acquisition will allow the company to strengthen its product lines. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOur propulsion is used to keep that satellite in its proper orbit and, occasionally, to move it to a different orbit,\u201d Sommerville said. And then, at end-of-life, to de-orbit the satellite.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">King notes that while the company will need to keep York\u2019s demand met, it will still be able to sell to anyone in the market. He anticipates the space defense market will grow significantly in the future, in light of missile defense initiatives stemming from the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re not sure yet what it means for our physical footprint,\u201d King added. \u201cWe will likely be at least expanding on our facility that\u2019s up on Sharon Avenue. We will be looking at whether we need more facilities or just build on to what we have, and that will be something we work out over the next year or so.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The video above will feature the TV6 livestream until staff can clip the corresponding story,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uppermichiganssource.com\/2026\/03\/13\/were-going-grow-orbion-space-technology-acquired-by-york-space-systems\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orbion Space Technology acquired by York Space Systems https:\/\/www.uppermichiganssource.com\/2026\/03\/13\/were-going-grow-orbion-space-technology-acquired-by-york-space-systems\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-13 18:58:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wluc-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/IOE5ZC5HRZBD3GZ6NMBDCWM6DU.png?auth=b88b9aa423684c2b1657f26fb9af25acae794797db12eb4458dc36ff99d6c501&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[129,85],"class_list":["post-223363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-solar","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223365,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223363\/revisions\/223365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}