Voyager's bold plan to replace the ISS after going public
The newly public space company is betting big on Starlab.
Voyager Technologies launched a successful IPO with plans to replace the International Space Station by 2029. CEO Dylan Taylor joined TheStreet to explain what's next for the company.
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Full Video Transcript Below:
CAROLINE WOODS: And what is next for Voyager? How does going public accelerate your long term vision?
DYLAN TAYLOR: Yeah, so we have several growth vectors. We'll deploy capital around. Obviously we've raised money in this IPO. I mentioned a few of them before Starlab our Space Station program, potential acquisitions. We've been quite acquisitive. We've made seven acquisitions since our founding. So I think it's likely we'll look at something like that. Smart missile defense software and software enabled hardware.
CAROLINE WOODS: What's the path to profitability looking like?
DYLAN TAYLOR: We're at an operating level already profitable. We obviously are carrying call it centralized costs for becoming a public company. So there's a lot of operating leverage built up in our platform. So as we grow revenue I think there will be a natural path there.
CAROLINE WOODS: So if we wait another five years until we talk again, what will we be talking about then?
DYLAN TAYLOR: It's a good question. I think Starlab will be in orbit by then. Certainly it's our intention to have it in orbit. So I think of commercial space stations as being an operating platform. So we might have multiple stations. That would be an ambition of ours. Don't take that to the bank because we got to get the first one built first. So I think that that'll be a thing. I think humans will be back on the moon, and I would like to think we'll have a role to play in that. And hopefully the Western missile defense shield will be secure, because I think that is a strategic threat to our way of life, the Western world, the Western value system. And that is a real threat. That's not something to not take seriously. We have to take that very seriously.
