Voyager enables robust commercial pipeline the space ecosystem needs
Customer demand for LEO exists. Mission-critical infrastructure is growing more advanced every day. What the market is needs is a sure path to get there.
Voyager’s Institute for Space, Technology and Advancement is the connective tissue between organizations on Earth – whether commercial and aerospace and defense companies or U.S. and global governmental organizations – and the commercial low-Earth orbit economy.
“VISTA ensures that ideas generated by tenants can actually make it to space,” said Jeffrey Manber, special representative to the Chairman and CEO, Voyager. “As the commercialization of space grows, VISTA is shifting the focus toward understanding how we can best use microgravity for the benefit of humanity and serve the customer.”
Enabling Commercial Innovation
Anchored at The Ohio State University, VISTA is a first-of-its-kind U.S. science park devoted to in-space research and manufacturing as well as lunar research. It brings together researchers, emerging companies and government organizations to share ideas and learn from one another.
Tenants also gain access to the full breadth of The Ohio State University hardware and services, as well as investors, mentors and industry leaders. VISTA provides the network to connect ideas to the expertise needed to get them to orbit.
Some of the early tenants include organizations working in pharmaceuticals, advanced materials, robotics and next-generation manufacturing systems.
“VISTA is the conduit by which we can conduct the research happening on Earth to opportunities in space,” said Manwei Chan, director of International and Science Development at Voyager. “We’re offering tenants the launchpad to utilize the space environment and enable their success.”
Supporting the Ecosystem
Companies and organizations should be able to focus solely on their mission, while the logistics of spaceflight are left to the people who know them best.
That’s what Voyager’s mission management service exists to do.
Decades of spaceflight heritage across more than 1,400 missions aboard the International Space Station has made Voyager a one-stop shop for enabling access to space. With 12 active research facilities in operation on the Space Station, Voyager takes customers from idea inception on Earth, through every phase of execution and into orbit.
And for VISTA tenants, these space-proven capabilities and infrastructure are at their fingertips.
While VISTA is aligned with Starlab, Voyager’s next-generation commercial space station, the company’s mission management service extends beyond any single platform.
Interest is building.
Space LiinTech, a South Korean-based biopharma company, joined the growing list of tenants after the success of a mission management contract with Voyager in late 2025. Several follow-on contracts are anticipated.
Óbuda University in Budapest, Hungary, and through it, the Hungarian Space Lab Network, as well as Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea have also signed memorandums of understanding, expanding VISTA’s international footprint and bringing world-class talent into the pipeline. This expansion adds to the existing VISTA ecosystem including University of Connecticut and University of North Dakota.
By connecting the workforce and innovative ideas to capital and commercial expertise, VISTA is providing fertile ground for the innovative ideas of tomorrow to take root today.
Then, Voyager’s mission management service ensure they fly.