FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) – A new aerospace company is setting up operations in southern Colorado, aiming to make space based research more accessible while bringing new jobs to the region.
Narravity, Inc., an aerospace research and technology company, is expanding into Fremont County with support from the state’s Rural Jump Start program. The company plans to build and test systems that allow businesses to study how products behave in microgravity without needing to run their own space missions.
“We’re building an affordable system that lets companies experiment in those environments without needing to operate their own spacecraft,” said CEO Kei Shimada.
Microgravity, or near weightless conditions found in space, can change how materials, medicines and manufacturing processes behave. Narravity’s platform is designed to help companies test those differences by sending experiments on suborbital rockets, which briefly reach space before returning to Earth.
“I think we’ve found a perfect way to do that with suborbital rockets which are much more cheaper to launch these experiments and you’d be able to retrieve the experiment and the artifacts on the same day,” Shimada said.
The company says its work could apply across a wide range of industries, including biotechnology, semiconductor development and manufacturing, as well as food, beverages and product design.
Rather than focusing on large scale space missions, Narravity plans to start small in Fremont County, building out an assembly operation and hiring locally as demand grows.
“In the next one or two years, we want to start off with several people on the ground and hopefully launch our payload module for microgravity experiments in 2027,” Shimada said.
State leaders say the Rural Jump Start program, which offers tax incentives and grant funding to businesses in economically distressed areas, helped bring the company to the region. Narravity is expected to receive 15,000 dollars in grant funding along with several years of tax benefits.
Local economic development leaders say the move could help diversify Fremont County’s economy and connect southern Colorado to the state’s growing aerospace sector.
Shimada said the long term goal is to grow the company’s presence in the region and build something with broader impact.
“I want to be there and say that originated in Southern Colorado,” he said.
Narravity officials say hiring is expected to begin with a small team, with the potential to grow in the coming years as operations expand.
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