Inside Bridgit Mendler’s New 185,000 sqft Northwood Space Factory

<p>Bridgit Mendler, Co-founder &amp; CEO of Northwood Space, gives Sourcery a first look inside the company’s new <strong>185,000 sqft headquarters and factory in Torrance, California</strong>.</p><p>Northwood has raised over $136M since 2022, including a $100M Series B in January 2026 led by Washington Harbour Partners and co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Alpine Space Ventures, Balerion and Fulcrum participating. The company also signed a $49.8M contract with the US Space Force to support the Satellite Control Network.</p><p>The new facility will more than <strong>5x Northwood’s manufacturing footprint</strong>, support production of <strong>hundreds of antennas per year</strong>, and add <strong>400 jobs over the next three years</strong> as the company works to solve one of the biggest bottlenecks in the space economy: getting data between satellites and Earth.</p><p>We tour the future manufacturing floor, antenna production lines, machining and PCB assembly areas, anechoic testing chambers, and a former movie theater that Northwood plans to turn into mission operations. The new facility will include dedicated production for Northwood’s Portal phased-array and Prism parabolic systems, while bringing more critical manufacturing and testing in-house.</p><p>Bridgit also breaks down why ground infrastructure has fallen behind the explosion in satellites, Northwood’s Space Force contract, the economics of satellite connectivity, building a global ground network, supply-chain strategy, national security, and her approach to leadership and scaling Northwood.</p><p><strong>“If you can improve the networking for the space economy, that is how you translate bits into dollars.”</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Bridgit Mendler:</strong> <a href="https://x.com/bridgitmendler" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/bridgitmendler</a></p><p><strong>Molly O’Shea:</strong> <a href="https://x.com/MollySOShea" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/MollySOShea</a> </p><p><strong>Sourcery:</strong> ⁠<a href="https://x.com/sourceryy" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/sourceryy</a> <br></p><p><br></p><p>𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊</p><p>YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/8SGgaMiGv6g" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://youtu.be/8SGgaMiGv6g</a><br></p><p><br></p><p>𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐒</p><p>• <a href="https://brex.com/sourcery" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Brex</strong></a>—The modern finance platform, combining the world’s smartest corporate card with integrated expense management, banking, bill pay, &amp; travel. <a href="https://brex.com/sourcery" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://brex.com/sourcery</a> </p><p>• <a href="http://applied-ad.com/"><strong>Applied Aerospace</strong></a>—As global competition intensifies, strategic leadership demands space and defense technologies that deliver enduring national capabilities. At Applied Aerospace &amp; Defense, we unleash the power of advanced manufacturing with unmatched scale and agility. Visit:<a href="https://applied-ad.com/"> <u>https://applied-ad.com</u></a><br></p><p>• <a href="https://turing.com/sourcery" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>Turing</strong></a>—Turing delivers top-tier talent, data, and tools to help AI labs improve model performance—and enables enterprises to turn those models into powerful, production-ready systems. <a href="https://turing.com/sourcery" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://turing.com/sourcery</a> </p><p>• <a href="https://fundrise.com/vcx" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>VCX</strong></a>—VCX is the public ticker for private tech, allowing investors of all sizes to invest in venture capital. View The Portfolio at <a href="http://getvcx.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://GetVCX.com</a>  </p><p>• <a href="https://www.deel.com/so