The International Space Station welcomes flight crews, launch vehicles and missions from around the world. For 25 years, the ISS has improved life on Earth, advanced space exploration and opened new frontiers in space-based scientific research. From breakthrough cancer treatments, improvements in GPS technology, new and innovative manufacturing processes and support for continuous human habitation in space, the ISS is an extraordinary legacy for humankind and has laid the groundwork for what’s to come. As the ISS’s 2030 retirement approaches, government agencies, private companies, universities and research institutes will transition to Starlab, the next generation space station. And as Starlab’s majority owner and premiere payload partner, Voyager Technologies will continue to deliver seamless and proven mission management at every step, from the ground to orbit.
Unmatched and Uninterrupted Access to Space
Voyager’s expertise enabling missions on the ISS today will drive Starlab tomorrow, ensuring the space economy experiences continued growth, mission continuity and trusted performance.
As the largest commercial user of the ISS, Voyager boasts an unmatched track record spanning 36 countries and 1,400 payloads and satellites. The company is a one-stop seamless path to space, providing end-to-end mission management, including planning, payload design, safety, launch booking, command procedures, crew training and on-orbit operations. By streamlining every mission phase, Voyager takes on the logistics and requirements, allowing customers to focus on what is most important to them: research, manufacturing and innovations.
“Voyager offers unparalleled access to space today, integrating commercial innovation, mission integration expertise and orbital infrastructure,” said Matt Magaña, president, Space, Defense & National Security of Voyager. “By securing future access to orbit and manifesting the missions of tomorrow, we continue to deliver a unique advantage to customers: continuous and unmatched access to space.”
The First Commercial Airlock
While its mission management capabilities will continue to provide efficient access to space, Voyager is also able to ensure physical access to the ISS and future commercial space stations through the Bishop Airlock, the first permanent and only commercial addition to the ISS. With 5x the capacity of the government airlocks aboard ISS, Bishop is a workhorse for scientific research, enabling efficient movement of equipment, on-board and external research, satellite deployment, maintenance and other services. Today, Voyager is developing future airlock concepts and studies to offer more capability and capacity and improve capabilities using artificial intelligence and machine learning that will accelerate research, manufacturing and product development.
From Starlab and Beyond, Voyager Brings the Expertise
Starlab is the largest and most advanced commercial station in development, with partners from the United States, Europe, Japan and Canada. Starlab is AI-enabled, features modular and flexible architecture and provides cutting-edge research facilities equipped with the latest technology for scientific experimentation and product development in microgravity.
Voyager’s expertise in mission management has helped customers manifest missions both inside and outside the ISS, covering a wide range of scientific and technological pursuits. Voyager will transition this expertise to Starlab.
Inside Starlab, Voyager supports customer missions exploring novel science, advanced materials and agricultural, semiconductor and fundamental physics research and development. Outside the station, Voyager will help customers deploy satellites for missions and experiments such as earth observation, space weather and new space technologies.
“Starlab is a transformative leap forward following the ISS. Its capabilities will allow Voyager to deliver to customers breakthrough scientific research and technological innovation by taking advantage of their decades-long track record of manifesting customer payloads to space using their mission management capabilities,” said Marshall Smith, CEO of Starlab. “Voyager will enable customers to meet their cost and schedule requirements and get their payloads to space quickly and efficiently so they can focus on what is most important: meeting their mission objectives.”
VISTA: Voyager’s Gateway to Space from Earth
For some, the first step toward achieving results in space starts on Earth at the Voyager Institute for Space, Technology and Advancement, or VISTA. It is a first-of-its-kind campus in the U.S. that brings together the brightest minds in aerospace, robotics, AI and other groundbreaking areas of technology and research. VISTA is a purpose-built ecosystem where companies and researchers, both domestic and international, can design, test and prepare technologies for orbit, and Voyager’s mission management expertise will ensure they get there successfully.
A Trusted Partner Defining Possible
As NASA and the space industry prepare for what is to come after the ISS, Voyager is ready to apply its decades of mission management experience, enabling commercial and government customers to maximize the scientific and research potential on Starlab. Voyager will build on their reputation as a trusted partner for those seeking to build the future of commercial innovation, new technologies and breakthrough research in space.
To learn more about how Voyager can manifest you to space, visit http://www.voyagertechnologies.com/mission-management