A New Mexico Community Was a Place to Build a Life. Then a Hypersonic Missile Factory Showed Up

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News Source : Wired

News Summary

  • Castelion, a startup founded in November 2022 by three former SpaceX executives, is building Project Ranger, which it claims will be America’s “largest dedicated hypersonic manufacturing production facility” Construction is set to be complete by the end of the year.
  • Castelion has become a bit of a darling among the new wave of defense tech startups.
  • It has received over $500 million in US military contracts in just 18 months, swiftly securing its spot as one of the “Arsenal of Freedom” suppliers.
Sally Schultz thought she had struck gold when she purchased land in Rio Rancho Estates, an unincorporated, censusdesignated community just outside the city of Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

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