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  1. Business is looking up for space station designers
    How do you design a living space where there’s no up or down? That’s one of the challenges facing Teague, a Seattle-based design and innovation firm that advises space companies such as Blue Origin, Axiom Space and Voyager Technologies on how to lay out their orbital outposts.

    Mike
    cosmiclog.com/2026/02/09/busin
    #GeekWire #Design #OrbitalReef #Space #SpaceStations #Starlab #Teague

  2. Seattle-based #Teague started out designing Texaco service stations - but now it's helping its partners create the look and feel of commercial space stations including #Starlab and #OrbitalReef. geekwire.com/2026/design-space #Space #Design

  3. #Axiom Station is designed to look like a boutique #hotel and is expected to launch in 📆 2028. #VoyagerSpace aims to launch its version, called #Starlab, the same year, and #BlueOrigin’s #OrbitalReef #SpaceStation plans to follow in 2030.

    While the cost of a stay aboard any of these outposts has not been released, expect ticket 🎫 prices in the tens of millions of dollars at first technologyreview.com/2026/01/1

    #SpaceTourism

  4. The first #LIFE module for #OrbitalReef is a three-story structure, 8 meters in diameter 📏, a massive amount of open, configurable volume. #Blue Origin is providing the #NewGlenn heavy-lift launch 🚀 capability. A realistic operational date is estimated to be post-📆 2028.

    #Starlab launch date 📆 2028: if the single launch on #Starship works, they will have a complete station in orbit overnight ⏱️.

    As of late 2025, #Axiom is winning the hardware race newspaceeconomy.ca/2025/11/14/

    #SpaceStation

  5. #Vast plans to send the 45 m3 #Haven1 to orbit in 📆 2026, the 55 m3 #Haven2 in 📆 2028
    #AxiomSpace plans to launch its first module to the #ISS in 📆 2027, later joined by two 11 x 4.2 meter (145 m3) habitable modules
    #Airbus and #VoyagerSpace plan to launch the 450 m3 #Starlab 📆 2028
    #SierraSpace and #BlueOrigin start operating the 830 m3 #OrbitalReef by the end of the decade

    scientificamerican.com/article

    #SpaceStation

  6. #AxiomStation is believed to have been downsized to two modules from the originally planned four.
    • The #VAST #Haven-2’s first module is scheduled to launch in 📆 2028
    #OrbitalReef is designed with 830 cubic meters of internal volume, 90 percent of the internal volume on the #ISS
    #Starlab launch is scheduled for 📆 2028
    nasaspaceflight.com/2024/10/co

  7. 📆 14th Jan 2024 #BlueOrigin has been granted an extra $42 million 💰, in addition to its $130 million grant, to work on developing the #OrbitalReef #LEO #SpaceStation concept with the aid of several other companies, including #Amazon, #Boeing, and #SierraSpace. #VoyagerSpace has been granted an additional $57.5 million 💰 to its initial $160 million grant for designing the #Starlab orbiting complex.
    #NASA's goal is to commence operations before the #ISS is phased out in 📆 2030 orbitaltoday.com/2024/01/14/na

  8. First #DreamChaser #landing 🛬 2017 youtu.be/fPtepeYK5hY

    📆 2021#SierraNevada Corporation's #DreamChaser was chosen as one of the #spacecraft to transport 🚖 commercial #crew 👨‍🚀 👩‍🚀 to and from the #OrbitalReef #SpaceStation, along with #Boeing's #Starliner.

    The United Nations Office for #OuterSpace Affairs (#UNOOSA) selected the #cargo 📦 #DreamChaser to provide #SpaceAccess to #UnitedNations member states that have no #SpaceProgram of their own. #Launch date 2024 📆
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Ch