French aerospace company Airbus and U.S.-based Voyager Space said they will begin working even closer to build a private version of the International Space Station (ISS).
"Lockheed will likely still have a role to play somewhere within the supply chain," Dylan Taylor, CEO of Voyager Space told reporters. Lockheed remains an important customer for Voyager and Starlab will remain U.S.-led, he added.
"There will be contributions coming from Europe, but there will definitely be an assembly and large contributions coming from the U.S."Voyager, through its subsidiary Nanoracks, won $160 million from NASA in 2021 to support Starlab development under the agency's Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development program.
The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 4, 2018.are developing rival stations under the program. NASA plans to retire the ISS in 2030 and will then rely on private companies to host its scientific research in low-Earth orbit.
"It will occur before the ISS decommissioning; we're highly confident of that. Whether it's going to be late 2027, early 2028, or late 2028 we're still working out those details," Taylor said.
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