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

By Yulia Almazova · Wired · Friday, 9 October 2026 at 09:30 (1h ago) · Original article ↗

Castelion—a next-generation defense tech company—is building a facility in Rio Rancho Estates that documents show could pose a major fire and chemical hazard to neighboring communities.

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