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SpaceX will launch the Starlab private space station using Starship


Starlab, the private space station being developed by Voyager Space and Airbus, will go to orbit onboard a SpaceX Starship rocket before the decade is

Voyager and Airbus finalized their Starlab joint venture earlier this month after announcing the plans last August, with the partnership leveraging technical expertise from both companies as well as ties to their respective government space agencies (Airbus is headquartered in Germany, while Voyager, via its operating subsidiary Nanoracks, has extensive experience working with NASA). Voyager and its operating subsidiary Nanoracks were awarded a $160 million contract from NASA in December 2021 for the design and development of Starlab; at the time, two other projects – one led by Blue Origin and another by Northrop Grumman – also received funding. However, last October Northrop announced it was abandoning its plans to instead joining forces with Starlab, to develop rendezvous and docking technology and provide cargo resupply with its Cygnus spacecraft.

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