October 1, 2025 – Texas-based aerospace company Vivace, which operates a manufacturing center at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans East, has landed a contract to help build a space station for Starlab Space, a global joint venture vying for funding in a hypercompetitive sector of commercial spaceflight.
Led by the U.S. space technology firm Voyager Space and the European aerospace conglomerate Airbus, Starlab plans to build a low-Earth orbit station by the end of the decade that can house four researchers or space tourists.