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.
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https://cosmiclog.com/2026/02/09/business-is-looking-up-for-space-station-designers/
#GeekWire #Design #OrbitalReef #Space #SpaceStations #Starlab #Teague
#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/
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
For more than two decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has served as humanity's outpost in low Earth orbit. It stands as an unparalleled achievement in global cooperation, engineering, and orbital science. Floating 250 miles above the planet, it has been continuously occupied by humans since the year 2000, hosting thousands of experiments that have advanced fields from human biology to materials science. It is, in every sense, a laboratory, a home, and a symbol.
When will #SpaceTourism to orbit 🌌 or beyond be available other than to the #ISS, #Tiangong or (to stay) in a #Dragon / #Starliner capsule ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism#Orbital_space_tourism
#Haven2 #Starlab #OrbitalReef #VoyagerSpace #VoyagerStation #journalism #SpaceHotel #Starship #NewGlenn #Gaganyaan #HumanSpaceflight
• #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
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