Voyager Technologies ($VOYG) will acquire Astrobotic for ~$300M, signaling its aim to have a bigger role in NASA’s return to the Moon, the company announced this morning
“We are building the infrastructure foundation that will make America’s permanent presence on the Moon a reality,” CEO Dylan Taylor said in a statement. “With Astrobotic, Voyager is now a lunar platform that will have capability at every infrastructure layer needed to put Americans on the lunar surface and keep them there.”
Full stack: Last week, NASA announced that Astrobotic’s Griffin Mission One, which was previously selected for lunar delivery under the CLPS program, would fly the space agency’s Moon Base II mission to begin building planned lunar base infrastructure.
In addition to its landing tech, Astrobotic is also building LunaGrid, a power grid on the lunar surface to distribute solar power.
In March, Voyager announced a strategic investment in Max Space, a company building expandable habitats on the lunar surface. With the Astrobotic acquisition, Voyager will be able to compete for contracts across nearly every aspect of a lunar mission, including comms, surface delivery, power distribution, habitats, and dust mitigation tech, according to a press release.
What’s next: The acquisition is expected to close as early as next month. Once it does, Astrobotic will be fully absorbed into Voyager—and its Pittsburg, PA, office will become the home base for Voyager’s lunar work.
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