Colorado companies Voyager Space and Palantir are joining forces to work together on enhancing national security capabilities in the commercial space realm. Voyager Space has a long history of exploration in space and Palantir provides software and data analysis for such customers as the military, law enforcement and the health care industry.
Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, said in a statement that the partnership represents a commitment to “advancing the frontiers of global commerce, civil, and national security capabilities” while reaffirming industry’s role in bringing leading-edge technology to space exploration and security.. The ISS is expected to be retired in 2030. China’s Tiangong space station is the only other one currently in operation.
The company has the Bishop airlock, which allows movement between the inside of the station and space, provides a research area and allows the release of satellites and other items into space. Kuta said Voyager has conducted 1,300 missions to the ISS and deployed more than 340 satellites., the station being developed by Voyager and Airbus Defense and Space, a space station can provide a large power supply for a company such as Palantir to process data collected in space.
Working with a company like Palantir, well known for its artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, would facilitate processing in space, allowing for a more concise transmission of data to Earth.“At Voyager, we have a lot of heritage in space station work, exploration work, the design and development,” Kuta said. “But one area that it definitely made sense to partner with a company like Palantir was on the software side.