Voyager Technologies $VOYG was selected for NASA's CLPS 2 lunar delivery program, joining a pool of vendors that can bid on orders through 2036. The contract has a $10B ceiling, with an option to extend to 2041 and raise the ceiling to $15B, but it is a pool to compete in and not a guaranteed award. Voyager plans to pitch multi-lander bulk buys, metric ton landers and lunar sample return missions.

Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, has powered down another science instrument as it explores uncharted interstellar space — a move that could buy time for an ambitious attempt to extend the probe’s impressive lifespan.

🚨: Voyager 1 and the Epic Journey Through the Oort Cloud Even though Voyager 1 has already entered interstellar space, it’s still deep inside our Solar System in the grandest sense. It will take roughly 300 years for humanity’s farthest spacecraft to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud — the vast, spherical shell of icy comets and frozen debris that marks the true outer boundary of our Solar System. Once there, crossing the entire Oort Cloud will take another ~30,000 years. That means Voyager 1 will spend tens of thousands of years silently drifting through this enormous region — a cosmic wilderness stretching up to 100,000 AU (nearly 2 light-years) from the Sun, filled with trillions of icy bodies. By the time it finally emerges on the other side, it will have been traveling for over 30,000 years since leaving the planets behind… and it will still be only barely beginning its true journey into the wider Milky Way. A humbling reminder of just how vast our Solar System really is — and how small we are in the grand timeline of space exploration. Voyager’s voyage is only getting started.

JUST IN: Voyager, the payments chain from @celestia (celestia:native), has posted a massive throughput benchmark on a single CPU core ⚡ The engineering behind the run is now public, with exchange and margin trading support planned next. The full breakdown ⬇️ Details here: