Astrobotic's Griffin-1 lunar lander undergoing final preparations in a clean room in the company's Pittsburgh headquarters. Credit: Astrobotic
WASHINGTON — Voyager Technologies has completed its acquisition of lunar infrastructure company Astrobotic Technology, weeks after Astrobotic won two NASA lunar lander missions.
Voyager announced July 13 that it closed the acquisition it announced June 2. Voyager is paying $162 million in cash and stock for Astrobotic, along with the assumption of $9 million in debt. The deal includes $129 million in additional earnout payments contingent on meeting performance milestones.
The deal closes just after Astrobotic shipped its Griffin-1 lunar lander from its Pittsburgh headquarters to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for environmental tests ahead of a launch planned for as soon as the fourth quarter of this year. The lander will deliver Astrolab’s FLIP rover to the moon, as well as several smaller payloads.
It also comes after NASA awarded Astrobotic two missions of its smaller Peregrine lander on June 30 for $298 million. Those landers are set to launch in 2028 carrying an identical set of three NASA payloads, with the potential for additional payloads.
