Voyager Is Trying to Right-Size National Security Space
There are three major areas where Voyager is investing in national security space: Solid rockets, intelligence, and satellite payloads.
There are three major areas where Voyager is investing in national security space: Solid rockets, intelligence, and satellite payloads.
“As the NASA administrator, I had a lot of challenges with traditional Hall thrusters,” Bridenstine told Payload. “When I came across this company that’s doing electric propulsion, they can provide as much thrust and as much efficiency as a traditional hull thruster, but do it with a variety of different fuels, I got excited about it.”
Today marks the last day that NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay System satellites will be open for new business.
The rocketmaker has has raised more than $2B since 2015.
“Hyperspectral is such a buzz word.”
Military users already spent $660M through the contract since 2023.
The license was “our last gate to fly.”
The end goal is to produce 50 to 100 liquid-fueled rocket engines a year.
“There’s just really no certification standard yet for this type of flight software.”
“This has just emerged as an opportunity, and also happens to be a pretty big market in and of itself.”