{"id":173582,"date":"2023-10-05T22:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T03:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/northrop-grumman-to-join-voyager-space-commercial-space-station-project"},"modified":"2023-10-05T22:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T03:25:14","slug":"northrop-grumman-to-join-voyager-space-commercial-space-station-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/northrop-grumman-to-join-voyager-space-commercial-space-station-project","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman to join Voyager Space commercial space station project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/northrop-grumman-to-join-voyager-space-commercial-space-station-project2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Northrop Grumman will drop plans to develop its own commercial space station and instead assist a competing effort led by Voyager Space, the companies announced Oct. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new partnership, the companies will cooperate on the development of fully autonomous docking systems for Northrop\u2019s Cygnus cargo spacecraft, allowing it to dock with Voyager\u2019s Starlab space station. The companies also said they will \u201cfurther explore opportunities to strengthen the development of Starlab\u201d that could include Northrop providing engineering design services for that station. Ars Technica <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2023\/10\/northrop-grumman-likely-to-end-its-bid-for-a-commercial-space-station\/\">first reported<\/a> about a potential partnership between the companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis collaboration is a major step forward for the Starlab program,\u201d said Dylan Taylor, chairman and chief executive of Voyager Space, in a statement. \u201cNorthrop Grumman\u2019s technical capability and proven success in cargo resupply services will play a pivotal role as we accelerate Starlab\u2019s development.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Northrop Grumman will drop plans to develop its own commercial space station and instead assist a competing effort led by Voyager Space, the companies announced Oct. 4. Under the new partnership, the companies will cooperate on the development of fully autonomous docking systems for Northrop\u2019s Cygnus cargo spacecraft, allowing it to dock [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}