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Voyager Space and Space Micro Inc. Announce Strategic Agreement

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DENVER, Nov. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Space Inc. (Voyager), a global leader in space exploration and infrastructure, today announced its intent to acquire a majority stake in San Diego-based Space Micro .

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  • DENVER, Nov. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Space Inc. (Voyager), a global leader in space exploration and infrastructure, today announced its intent to acquire a majority stake in San Diego-based Space Micro .
  • As part of the agreement, Voyager intends to provide strategic operations support to help advance Space Micro's technology throughput to civil, commercial, and defense customers.
  • "For almost two decades Space Micro has developed game-changing technologies and provided trusted high-performance satellite communications systems," says Space Micro Co-Founder and Chairman, David Strobel.
  • "Space Micro is a perfect addition to Voyager's growing NewSpace portfolio of entrepreneurs and technology capabilities," says Matthew Kuta, President and COO of Voyager Space.

NASA Planet Hunter on Its Way to Orbit

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Thursday, April 19, 2018
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"Each time the spacecraft passes close to Earth, it will transmit full-frame images taken with the cameras.

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  • "Each time the spacecraft passes close to Earth, it will transmit full-frame images taken with the cameras.
  • A transit occurs when a planet passes in front of its star from the observer's perspective, causing a periodic and regular dip in the star's brightness.
  • TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission led and operated by MIT and managed by Goddard.
  • Additional partners include Orbital ATK, NASA's Ames Research Center, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the Space Telescope Science Institute.