Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) has signed a mission management contract with Interstellar Lab to host BioPod EDEN, an autonomous plant growth payload, aboard the International Space Station (ISS), according to a press release from Voyager.

Under the contract, Voyager will provide end-to-end payload hosting for the middeck locker-class payload, covering design and safety review support across NASA review phases, engineering and technical support, assembly, integration and testing, concept of operations and on-orbit activities, and return of the payload to Interstellar Lab. NASA will determine the specific hosting location aboard the ISS.

BioPod EDEN uses an AI-driven operating system to autonomously monitor, control and optimize the plant growth environment in microgravity, comparing results against a matching experiment on the ground. The payload operates mostly without crew involvement once installed. At the end of the mission, a crew member will collect plant samples and place them in cold storage at -4 degrees Fahrenheit (-20 Celsius) for return to Earth. The first mission is planned to run between 30 days and three months.

"The faster we can do science in space the sooner we can grow food on the Moon," said Barbara Belvisi, founder and CEO of Interstellar Lab. "Flying BioPod EDEN on the ISS gives researchers a faster path to conducting plant science in microgravity, and every mission feeds data back into our next iteration of hardware."

Voyager is also managing a mission for Luxembourg-based Exobiosphere, whose automated drug screening platform is manifested for launch in 2027. Interstellar Lab, headquartered in Florida with a subsidiary in France, has raised $17 million to date.