Starlab is a commercial space station in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) designed to enable a continued human presence beyond the International Space Station (ISS).

It is being developed in a US-led joint venture, led by Voyager Space, and will be accessible to space agencies and researchers as well as private companies, astronauts, and missions.

For the project Voyager Space, which acquired Nanoracks in 2021, has benefitted from $217+ million through a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA under the Commercial Destinations Free Flyer program.

Starlab will be formed of two modules; one acting as a habitat and laboratory for astronauts and a service module providing power and other capacities. Starlab should be able to support 100% of the payload capacity of the ISS once operational.

Key partners

• Airbus
• Mitsubishi Corp.
• MDA Space
• Northrop Grumman
• Palantir
• Hilton
• Ohio State University