Voyager Technologies is opening a 140,000-ft.2 Facility in Long Beach, California.
Voyager Technologies has opened a new 140,000-ft.² facility in Long Beach, California, becoming the latest space-centric company to set up shop in the area south of Los Angeles known locally as “Space Beach.”
The new facility will house research and development and manufacturing for a range of technology areas, including advanced electronics and mission hardware; infrastructure for low Earth orbit, lunar and deep space missions; and next-generation propulsion and defense systems, along with integrated sensing, communications and autonomy technologies, the company announced March 12.
It follows Voyager’s announcement in January that it broke ground on a new 150,000-ft.² expansion of its facilities in Pueblo, Colorado, to focus on accelerating domestic missile defense and tactical munitions orders.
The new center will be focused on “a revolutionary way” of designing using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up engineering processes, Voyager President for Defense and National Security Space Matt Magaña told Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson during a press event. Magaña described how Voyager and its partner companies could use the facility to print circuit boards “within weeks and months” using agentic AI to speed up their journey to orbit.
“The amount of work that has gone into building electronics to do these types of missions—it takes years and years,” said Magaña, who grew up in Long Beach and spent nearly two decades as a Raytheon executive before joining Voyager in 2024. “We’ve got to cut that down to have the speed of relevance.”
It will also feature secure environments for Voyager personnel to focus on the defense side of the company’s portfolio, he said. CEO Dylan Taylor forecast a pipeline of $1.6 billion in potential business from the Golden Dome missile defense initiative in the company’s March 10 earnings call.
Voyager will also use the new space to run NASA’s “High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware” program, through which the agency provides students with hands-on experience in designing and engineering for space missions and develops a workforce development pipeline. Voyager will first work with Sato Academy of Math and Science as its “premier” high school partner for the program, Magaña said.
The new facilities, which formerly housed an undisclosed aerospace and defense company, should be fully operational by year’s end with immediate occupancy, Magaña said in an email. Around 150-200 personnel will work out of the new facility.
Magaña told Richardson that the proximity of other new space businesses, such as True Anomaly in Long Beach and Anduril in Costa Mesa, was a critical factor in Voyager’s decision to set up shop in the area. Other space companies in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County include Relativity Space, Rocket Lab, and Vast Space.
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