St. Louis tech startups get a boost with Moonshot Labs opening The lab creates a space for tech startups to bounce ideas off of each other while using geospatial data to innovate and grow Author: Rhyan Henson Updated: 4:35 PM CST February 3, 2021 ST. LOUIS — A local St. Louis non-profit has opened its Geospatial Innovation Center, a shared innovation workspace that allows startup tech companies to bounce ideas off of each other and grow together using geospatial data. Downtown startup incubator T-REX plans to take advantage of the presence of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) — which is finalizing plans for a space called Moonshot Labs within the Geospatial Innovation Center — to help advance efforts between NGA, industry and academia in the region.