Apparently nothing concrete will be done until Starlab wins the big NASA construction project — assuming it does so.

And yet the sad reality is that this seems to be true of ALL of the commercial space station developers, to varying degrees — even Max Haot at Vast has made clear that a big NASA award is going to be necessary to bring Haven-2 into operation.

I think all four of these companies/consortiums have concluded that NASA is absolutely necessary both as a major funding source for station fabrication and assembly, as well as an anchor client. And as I noted on a previous Starlab thread, some creditable observers have wondered if a business case can really be closed even with NASA as a major stakeholder — transportation costs may need to come down even more. I simply don’t have enough information to say.

But I do share the sense of frustration that Voyager is not engaged in more actual *building* at this point.