Special Aerospace Services unveils new name, identity
Aurex’s new Mission Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Aurex photo.
By
Ross Wilkers
The space- and missile defense-focused company employs 250 people that work on systems and technologies for emerging priorities, of which the Golden Dome initiative is one.
Special Aerospace Services has unveiled a new name and identity for this next phase of its strategy focused on space and missile defense programs, which started with being acquired by Godspeed Capital Management in April 2024.
Now called Aurex, the 250-employee company has acquired three other businesses since Godspeed first entered this investment in an effort to bring together systems and emerging technologies for modern warfare.
Aurex’s strategy also includes hypersonic systems and other offerings intended for rapid deployment to support emerging defense priorities like the Golden Dome missile defense initiative, the company said Monday.
“The Aurex brand emphasizes our focus on innovation and the recent completion of a new state-of-the-art Mission Center, a 44,000 square foot multi-use manufacturing and engineering facility in Huntsville, Alabama, where we are meeting the most complex and emerging national security challenges centered on space domain awareness and superiority,” Aurex chief executive Warren Kohm said in a release.
Construction work on Mission Center started in the summer of 2024 as a way for Aurex to put down roots in Huntsville, and the city’s “Rocket City” corridor in particular, to be in proximity to space and defense agencies with tenant operations in that region.
Aurex built Mission Center to house highly-classified programs, along with rapid prototyping and advanced manufacturing work for government and commercial clients.
The company touts its portfolio as including hypersonic systems, missile defense, orbital launch, secure communications, digital battlespace training, software development, modeling and simulation, precision hardware, and resilient mission networks.