Voyager Awarded Interstellar Lab Mission Management Contract
Business Wire•26/10/2026•09:00 ET
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Key Highlights
- ➤Voyager executed mission management contract with Interstellar Lab for ISS payload hosting
- ➤BioPod EDEN’s first ISS mission planned to run 30 days to 3 months
- ➤Voyager will provide end-to-end hosting, engineering, integration, operations, and payload return
- ➤BioPod EDEN will compare AI-optimized microgravity plant growth with a matching Earth experiment
- ➤Exobiosphere’s automated drug screening platform is manifested for launch in 2027
Expert Statements
Mattia Pianorsi, Managing Director, Voyager Technologies Europe
“Commercial companies are now delivering research capabilities that governments, space agencies and researchers around the world can put to work on the International Space Station.”
Mattia Pianorsi, Managing Director, Voyager Technologies Europe
“Our role is to help partners like Interstellar Lab get their systems to orbit and make those capabilities available to governmental and commercial customers alike, turning advanced concepts into operational missions.”
Barbara Belvisi, Founder and CEO, Interstellar Lab
“The faster we can do science in space the sooner we can grow food on the Moon.”
Barbara Belvisi, Founder and CEO, Interstellar Lab
“Flying BioPod EDEN on the ISS gives researchers a faster path to conducting plant science in microgravity, and every mission feeds data back into our next iteration of hardware.”
Barbara Belvisi, Founder and CEO, Interstellar Lab
“Voyager gives us a proven route to the Station so our team can stay focused on the science, that will lead to a greenhouse on the Moon.”
Ralph Fritsche, VP of Space Science Programs and Operations, Interstellar Lab
“NASA showed that astronauts could grow and eat fresh food in space. Now Interstellar Lab is putting the next generation of plant growth hardware in the hands of agencies and researchers. That’s how we get to growing food on the Moon.”
AI-run growth chamber will test how plants develop in microgravity against a matching experiment on Earth
Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) executed a mission management contract with Interstellar Lab to host BioPod EDEN, the company’s autonomous plant growth payload, aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
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