Contract win underscores proven history of capability and scalability
The American national defense posture is shifting. To support the deployment of advanced defense systems like Golden Dome, the priority for commercial partners must be reshoring strategic supply chains and manufacturing capabilities.
Voyager is at the leading edge.
Through scaling electric propulsion production capacity and strategic expansions, Voyager is positioned to deliver vertically integrated advanced propulsion technologies the Department of War depends on.
“The dependencies in our propulsion supply chain are a risk, which is why Voyager is building the American-made, domestically qualified and mission-critical capacity that can surge when the mission demands it,” said Matt Magaña, president of Space, Defense and National Security, Voyager. “Our end-to-end propulsion portfolio spans controllable solid propulsion, solid rocket motors and advanced electric propulsion. And it’s all built to scale.”
Building the Propulsion Foundation
Voyager is a leading U.S. manufacturer of energetics, propulsion materials and critical resources supporting missile defense, with growth plans to keep it that way.
In April 2026, Voyager’s Denver-metro facility doubled production capacity of electric propulsion modules from the year prior. The modules produced function as a compact, high-performance solution to enable precise orbital maneuvering and threat avoidance. By expanding the Littleton facility to 40,000 square feet, increasing its workforce and adding additional testing equipment and training, the company doubled production from only one year prior. And now the company has plans to quadruple the original production capacity.
Two new AI-enabled facilities are also slated to open later this year: Voyager’s American Defense Complex in Pueblo, Colorado and Space Beach Technology and Innovation Center in Long Beach, California.
The Voyager American Defense Complex will be a 150,000 square-foot facility for operations, testing and manufacturing to support the high-volume production of advanced propulsion technologies. This includes the company’s proprietary solid controllable propulsion technology, which increases operational duration by regulating ignition, extinguishment, reignition and thrust throttling of solid propellant combustion. The advanced robotics and highly automated manufacturing at the complex will cut lead times and accelerate delivery, enabling scalability to support the U.S. defense industrial base.
The Space Beach Technology and Innovation Center in Long Beach puts Voyager in closer collaboration with other defense players, accelerating innovation. The center will position Voyager to respond to the growing demand across civil, national security and commercial space missions with their portfolio of technologies, including next-generation propulsion and defense systems.
With both the Space Beach facility and Voyager American Defense Complex, the company is compressing design cycles through AI-driven digital engineering and automated manufacturing to allow the rapid move from concept to fielded capability.
The Latest Proof Point
This scaled propulsion capability and strategic growth is underscored by the award of a Phase 2 DARPA Burn And Go contract, valued at $16.5 million. The Burn And Go project seeks to develop a new solid rocket motor design with tailorable, post-manufacturing thrust control. The end result is a single motor that could be used across multiple weapon systems to enable flexible weapons procurement and scaled production.
During Phase 1 of the contract, Voyager’s conceptual system architecture and preliminary designs were validated in a Conceptual Design Review. Phase 2 will confirm the proof-of-concept over 20 months, ending in tailorable SRM hot-fire demonstrations.
“Rather than one-off solutions, our approach is meant to reshape how solid rocket motors are produced to accelerate new capability and applications,” said Karl Kulling, general manager, Energetics, Voyager. “That’s what the Burn And Go program is designed to do, and it’s exactly the kind of challenge Voyager’s propulsion capability is built to solve.”