#starlab — 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

The companies at the forefront of the #CLD competition:

• #Vast is expecting to launch 🚀 its #Haven1 #SpaceStation in Q1 📆 2027
• #Axiom Space is planning to launch a two-module station by 📆 2028
• #Starlab, which is being built by a joint venture between #Voyager Technologies and #Airbus, is aiming to launch its station in 📆 2029

https://payloadspace.com/payload-field-guide-commercial-leo-destination/

#NASA

#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 https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1130030/commercial-space-stations-2026-breakthrough-technology/

#SpaceTourism

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 https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2025/11/14/what-is-orbital-reef

#SpaceStation

#Haven1 launch delayed to Q1 📆 2027. #Axiom Space and #Starlab are planning to launch two module stations in 📆 2028 and 📆 2029 https://payloadspace.com/vast-delays-haven-1-launch-to-2027/

#SpaceStation

Starlab partners unveil full-scale mockup of commercial space station

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/starlab-partners-unveil-full-scale-mockup-of-commercial-space-station/

#Starlab will be launched to orbit in a single flight by #Starship.

#NASA spent more than $100 billion 💰 constructing the #ISS and has a $3 billion annual budget for operations and transportation of people and supplies to the station. The agency is likely to fund commercial #SpaceStations at a level of about $1 billion 💵 a year https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/by-launching-on-starship-the-starlab-station-can-get-to-orbit-in-one-piece/

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

📆 Dec 01, 2023 8️⃣ #SpaceStations designed to succeed the #ISS

• #Starlab
• #OrbitalReef
• #AxiomStation
• #LunarGateway ☢️
• #VoyagerStation
• #StarshipStation
• #Haven1
• #StarMax

https://interestingengineering.com/lists/8-us-space-stations-iss

#SpaceStation