The space agency wants at least one commercial station to be up and running in low Earth orbit before the ISS retires at the end of 2030. This complex will then detach and become a free-flying outpost.Īnd in late 2021, NASA awarded a total of $415 million to three private teams led by Blue Origin, Nanoracks and Northrop Grumman. Haven-1 - which will eventually be incorporated as a module into a larger space station, if all goes according to plan - is one of several private outposts currently in the works.įor example, Axiom Space plans to launch several modules to the ISS in the next few years. The International Space Station will eventually die by fire Will they be better than their predecessors? Gallery: Private space stations of the future imagined (The ticket price has not been publicly released.) SpaceX will provide astronaut training, spacesuits and other such services for the mission, as it did for Ax-1, a private flight to the International Space Station (ISS) operated by Houston-based company Axiom Space in April 2022. The company is selling up to four seats on Vast-1. "In support of this, Vast will explore conducting the world's first spinning artificial gravity experiment on a commercial space station with Haven-1," Vast added.
(Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, is still in development it flew in fully stacked mode for the first time just last month.) And it's very hungry, as McCaleb's words suggest.Įventually, the company aims to operate a "100-meter-long multi-module spinning artificial gravity space station launched by SpaceX's Starship transportation system," Vast representatives wrote in today's release. Vast is young, founded just two years ago.
Artist's illustration of a SpaceX Dragon capsule approaching Vast Space's planned Haven-1 orbiting outpost.
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