{"id":209176,"date":"2026-02-02T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/construction-underway-on-new-space-and-defense-technology-facility-in-pueblo-county-the-prowers-journal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:20:12","slug":"construction-underway-on-new-space-and-defense-technology-facility-in-pueblo-county-the-prowers-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/construction-underway-on-new-space-and-defense-technology-facility-in-pueblo-county-the-prowers-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction underway on new space and defense technology facility in Pueblo County : The Prowers Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theprowersjournal.com\/2026\/02\/construction-underway-on-new-space-and-defense-technology-facility-in-pueblo-county\/\">Construction underway on new space and defense technology facility in Pueblo County : The Prowers Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theprowersjournal.com\/2026\/02\/construction-underway-on-new-space-and-defense-technology-facility-in-pueblo-county\/\">https:\/\/theprowersjournal.com\/2026\/02\/construction-underway-on-new-space-and-defense-technology-facility-in-pueblo-county\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 12:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theprowersjournal.com\">theprowersjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"postinfo\">Barbara Crimond | Feb 02, 2026 | Comments 0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Artist\u2019s rendering of new Voyager American Defense complex at PuebloPlex in Pueblo County (photo by Voyager Tehnologies)<\/p>\n<p>Construction is now underway on a new space and defense technology facility in Pueblo County. Denver-based Voyager Technologies is building a manufacturing, operations and testing complex at PuebloPlex. That\u2019s the site of the former U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot that\u00a0<strong>closed a couple of years ago<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The company expects to create about 120 new jobs at the site, which will \u201csupport high-volume production of weapon systems-enabling components and propulsion systems \u2026 along with chemical and black powder development, which have received more than $39 million in federal funding to re-onshore these resources to the United States.\u201d That\u2019s according to a written statement from the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis groundbreaking represents one of the largest defense investments in Southern Colorado in over a decade,\u201d said U.S. Congressman Jeff Hurd in the press release. \u201cVoyager is bringing high-tech manufacturing jobs to Pueblo and strengthening America\u2019s defense industrial base in Colorado\u2019s 3rd Congressional District.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new 150,000-square-foot facility is expected to be operational later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, about 60 people work for Voyager Technologies in Southern Colorado. The company acquired the Pueblo site as part of the purchase of the Penrose-based Estes Energetics in November.<\/p>\n<p>Estes Energetics, which specializes in propulsion systems and materials, was a sister company to the decades-old model rocketry company\u00a0<strong>Estes Rockets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Voyager Technologies has other locations in California, Ohio, Nevada, Texas and elsewhere \u2014 including Italy.<\/p>\n<p>#\u00a0 \u00a0 #\u00a0 \u00a0 #<\/p>\n<p class=\"cats\"><strong>Filed Under<\/strong>: Featured \u2022 Media Release \u2022 Public Safety \u2022 Technology<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theprowersjournal.com\/2026\/02\/construction-underway-on-new-space-and-defense-technology-facility-in-pueblo-county\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction underway on new space and defense technology facility in Pueblo County : The Prowers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/theprowersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot_20260202_095427_Chrome-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-209176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209178,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209176\/revisions\/209178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}