A new space company is heading to the Tall City.

AST&Science, a "designer and manufacturer of miniature satellites for low-Earth orbit (LEO)" announced Thursday that Midland would be the location for their new satellite manufacturing plant and corporate headquarters.

The plant and headquarters will be located in the Space Port Business Park of the Midland International Air and Space Port.

According to a release, AST&Science expects to bring 160 space manufacturing jobs and will invest more than $30 million into the new facility.

AST&Science says that one of their biggest reasons for picking Midland was because of its FAA licensed Space Port.

“The new AST&Science plant will design, build, integrate, manage and launch satellite platforms into low-Earth orbits (LEO) in a fully integrated aeronautical and space operation. The collocation of the high-volume manufacturing and direct airside access for the horizontal launch capability, using carrier aircraft at the Midland Space Port, will be an important element in our planned rapid LEO satellite deployments," said AST Chairman and CEO Abel Avellan.

AST&Science expects for the first satellites to be launched in 2019.