Monday, February 23, 2026

Space Minds: Creating new demand in the nascent orbital economy

Learn how Voyager's Matt Kuta sees the company positioning itself in orbit
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02/23/2026

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In this episode of Space Minds, David Ariosto interviews Matt Kuta, president and co-founder of Voyager Technologies about how the company is pursuing a commercialized future in low Earth orbit. They discuss the possibilities of working with research and industry partners in a commercial space station, Voyager's rapidly growing military and missile defense division and how to responsibly deploy AI in space systems from weather mapping to future conflicts between two forces of robotic agents.


Creating new demand in the nascent orbital economy

FROM THE CONVERSATION


David Ariosto: It seems like there's this public awareness that's changing now in the sense that this is no longer sci-fi, this is no longer the purview of purely federal governments ... I'm wondering, when you start looking at the key drivers of how to make this viable, how to make this profitable. ...I'm wondering if you can pick apart more of that model.


Matt Kuta: We have been generating revenue and profit in LEO for over a decade, when you account for the heritage of Nanoracks and some of the other assets we've acquired. What's less known is how do you do that beyond just building a piece of hardware, charging a single margin for a singular thing and delivering it to the customer, but actually having more of a very frequently recurring business model.


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Space Minds: Creating new demand in the nascent orbital economy

Learn how Voyager's Matt Kuta sees the company positioning itself in orbit  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ...