#spacestations — Public Fediverse posts

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
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/02/09/business-is-looking-up-for-space-station-designers/
#GeekWire #Design #OrbitalReef #Space #SpaceStations #Starlab #Teague

Exhibit celebrates space station dreams and realities
The dream of having people live and work in space didn’t start with billionaire Jeff Bezos, or even with rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun. Instead, you’d have to look back at least as far as 1869 — a full century before humans walked on the moon.

That’s just one of the fu
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/06/08/exhibit-celebrates-space-station-dreams-and-realities/
#GeekWire #InternationalSpaceStation #MuseumOfFlight #Space #SpaceStations

List of commercial #SpaceStations and even larger #SpaceHabitats. Last updated: 📆 2024-01-01. Entries: 37 https://www.factoriesinspace.com/space-stations

#Airbus
#ASTROLAB
#AxiomSpace
#Bigelow
#BlueOrigin
#DEHAS
#ExodusStar
#FutureSpaceArchitecture
#GalacticHarbour
#GalacticSuiteDesign
#GatewaySpaceport
#Gravitics
#HamonIndustries
#InterPlanetary
#LeviathanSpace
#MaverickSpace
#MirCorp
#Nanoracks
#NexusAurora
#NorthropGrumman
#OrbitalOutpost
#OrionSpan
#ROVIAL
#SierraSpace
#SpaceEntertainment
#SpaceIndustries
#SpaceIslandGroup
#SpaceIslandsHilton
#Spacehab
#SpartanSpace
#Starlab
#SynodicSpace
#FairchildSpace
#ThinkOrbital
#VAST
#VellonSpace

https://www.factoriesinspace.com/space-stations

#SpaceTourism #SpaceHotel #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #SciFi #SpaceCompany

Get a reality check on plans to build cities in space
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos may harbor multibillion-dollar dreams of sending millions of people to live on Mars, on the moon and inside free-flying space habitats --- but a newly published book provides a prudent piece of advice: Don't go too bol
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/11/06/get-a-reality-check-on-plans-to-build-cities-in-space/
#FictionScienceClub #Books #FictionScience #LunarOutpost #Mars #Moon #ScienceFiction #Space #SpaceStations

#ThinkOrbital was founded in 📆 2021 to build #SpaceStations & #Habitats https://www.factoriesinspace.com/think-orbital

#SpaceCompany #SpaceStation

Meet the #space #billionaire who is interested in something other than rockets
Space habitation company, Vast 's acquisition of Launcher shows that #JedMcCaleb is serious about this #space thing with a plan to build #spacestations with #artificialgravity
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/meet-the-space-billionaire-who-is-interested-in-something-other-than-rockets/

Meet the #space #billionaire who is interested in something other than rockets
Space habitation company, Vast 's acquisition of Launcher shows that #JedMcCaleb is serious about this #space thing with a plan to build #spacestations with #artificialgravity
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/meet-the-space-billionaire-who-is-interested-in-something-other-than-rockets/

Meet the #space #billionaire who is interested in something other than rockets
Space habitation company, Vast 's acquisition of Launcher shows that #JedMcCaleb is serious about this #space thing with a plan to build #spacestations with #artificialgravity
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/meet-the-space-billionaire-who-is-interested-in-something-other-than-rockets/

Meet the #space #billionaire who is interested in something other than rockets
Space habitation company, Vast 's acquisition of Launcher shows that #JedMcCaleb is serious about this #space thing with a plan to build #spacestations with #artificialgravity
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/meet-the-space-billionaire-who-is-interested-in-something-other-than-rockets/

Meet the #space #billionaire who is interested in something other than rockets
Space habitation company, Vast 's acquisition of Launcher shows that #JedMcCaleb is serious about this #space thing with a plan to build #spacestations with #artificialgravity
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/meet-the-space-billionaire-who-is-interested-in-something-other-than-rockets/

📆 2023/02/16 Four 4️⃣ private #SpaceStations planned

• #AxiomSpace
• #NorthropGrumman
• #VoyagerSpace / #Nanoracks
• #SierraSpace / #BlueOrigin

"It's going to be a small percentage that #NASA is going to be funding these #SpaceStations" so each project needs "to go out and raise #capital 💰 to do this." https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/investing-in-space-the-space-station-kingmaker.html

Several other #SpaceNews in this article : #FAA #SpaceX #IntuitiveMachines #CASC #Roscosmos #AerojetRocketdyne #Maxar #VirginOrbit #VirginGalactic #SpaceRyde #Inmarsat #Astranis #SidusSpace #RocketLab #RelativitySpace #AllSpace #Iridium #AerojetRockdyne #JAXA #SpaceCom

Pictures : "Langley engineers check out the interior of the #inflatable 24-foot #SpaceStation in 📆 1962.", #Bigelow #SpaceStation, #CrewDragon approaches #ISS Kibo laboratory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langley_engineers_inside_inflatable_a_24-foot_spacestation_mock-up.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bigelow_Aerospace_facilities.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crew-2_dragon_approach.jpg

📆 2023/02/16 Four 4️⃣ private #SpaceStations planned

• #AxiomSpace
• #NorthropGrumman
• #VoyagerSpace / #Nanoracks
• #SierraSpace / #BlueOrigin

"It's going to be a small percentage that #NASA is going to be funding these #SpaceStations" so each project needs "to go out and raise #capital 💰 to do this." https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/investing-in-space-the-space-station-kingmaker.html

Several other #SpaceNews in this article : #FAA #SpaceX #IntuitiveMachines #CASC #Roscosmos #AerojetRocketdyne #Maxar #VirginOrbit #VirginGalactic #SpaceRyde #Inmarsat #Astranis #SidusSpace #RocketLab #RelativitySpace #AllSpace #Iridium #AerojetRockdyne #JAXA #SpaceCom

Pictures : "Langley engineers check out the interior of the #inflatable 24-foot #SpaceStation in 📆 1962.", #Bigelow #SpaceStation, #CrewDragon approaches #ISS Kibo laboratory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langley_engineers_inside_inflatable_a_24-foot_spacestation_mock-up.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bigelow_Aerospace_facilities.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crew-2_dragon_approach.jpg

📆 2023/02/16 Four 4️⃣ private #SpaceStations planned

• #AxiomSpace
• #NorthropGrumman
• #VoyagerSpace / #Nanoracks
• #SierraSpace / #BlueOrigin

"It's going to be a small percentage that #NASA is going to be funding these #SpaceStations" so each project needs "to go out and raise #capital 💰 to do this." https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/investing-in-space-the-space-station-kingmaker.html

Several other #SpaceNews in this article : #FAA #SpaceX #IntuitiveMachines #CASC #Roscosmos #AerojetRocketdyne #Maxar #VirginOrbit #VirginGalactic #SpaceRyde #Inmarsat #Astranis #SidusSpace #RocketLab #RelativitySpace #AllSpace #Iridium #AerojetRockdyne #JAXA #SpaceCom

Pictures : "Langley engineers check out the interior of the #inflatable 24-foot #SpaceStation in 📆 1962.", #Bigelow #SpaceStation, #CrewDragon approaches #ISS Kibo laboratory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langley_engineers_inside_inflatable_a_24-foot_spacestation_mock-up.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bigelow_Aerospace_facilities.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crew-2_dragon_approach.jpg

#CNN 📆 May 2022 #OrbitalAssembly is aiming to launch two #SpaceStations with #tourist accommodation: #VoyagerStation is now scheduled to accommodate 400 people and to open in 📆 2027, while new concept Pioneer Station, housing 28 people, could be operational in 📆 2025. There will be "comforts" of artificial #gravity, like showers 🚿, the ability to eat and drink sitting 🪑 down https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/space-hotel-orbital-assembly-scn/index.html

#SpaceStation #SpaceTourism

SpaceX Crew Docks at the International Space Station - “Docking confirmed,” the company founded by Elon Musk announced Monday night. - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/science/space/spacex-docks-international-space-station.html #nationalaeronauticsandspaceadministration #spaceexplorationtechnologiescorp #internationalspacestation #noguchisoichi(1965-) #walkershannon(1965-) #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #glovervictorjjr #hopkinsmichaels #spacestations