GALWAY, Ireland, Sept. 10, 2025 & mdash MBRYONICS, a Galway, Ireland-based satellite optical communication company, opened its Photon-1 volume manufacturing facility in Dangan, Ireland. The facility is the first volume manufacturing facility for advanced satellite optical communications in Galway, and is expected to bring the region 125 jobs over the next two years. These jobs will add to the company’s existing team of 100 employees in production, engineering, sales, and marketing support.

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MBRYONICS has opened a manufacturing facility in Dangan, Ireland. The site will manufacture the company's flagship optical communications terminal product at an initial capacity of 500 units per year. Courtesy of MBRYONICS.

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The facility, the company said, builds on the more than 10-year partnership between MBRYONICS, the European Space Agency, and Ireland’s ESA Delegation. The Photon-1 New Product Introduction facility integrates design, manufacturing, and testing capabilities under one roof, enabling the rapid and scalable deployment of advanced optical communication terminals for satellite constellations.

Photon-1's opening, the company said, marks MBRYONICS' transition from R&D to large-scale production, with future expansion planned in the western region and internationally to serve major programs, such as the EU’s IRIS² constellation, as well as their international public and private customers. The site will manufacture MBRYONICS’s flagship optical communications terminal product, StarCom, with an initial capacity of 500 units a year.

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