RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116171491658596489

In June 2024, #ESA signed an agreement with Vast, which includes potential access to Vast’s #SpaceStations for #astronauts 🧑‍🚀

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115899774264373142

Ted Cruz is chairman of the #Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and has an outsized say in #space policy. He wants #commercial #SpaceStations operating before the #ISS is de-orbited, which is currently scheduled for 📆 2030

China’s Stranded Astronauts Return Home, But Its Space Station Crisis Is Far From Over

Three astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after being stranded due to a rare space debris incident. The…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #CA #Canada #China #spacedebris #spacejunk #Spacestations
https://www.newsbeep.com/250714/

Keep creating #SpaceJunk, #Elon! Maybe it's time to send up the #SpaceJanitors, eh?

The #KesslerSyndrome: Crisis in Space Intensifies as Thousands of Satellites Crowd Earth Orbit

by Micah Hanks, May 8, 2025

Excerpt: "Welcome to this week’s installment of The Intelligence Brief… as #SpaceX’s Starlink constellation continues to raise the number of operational satellites in orbit, scientists are raising alarms about the growing threat of #SpaceDebris. In our analysis this week, we’ll be looking at 1) the potential onset of the Kessler Syndrome, 2) how a cascading chain reaction of orbital collisions could jeopardize #satellites, #SpaceStations, and critical infrastructure in space, and 3) what space agencies like NASA and the ESA are doing to mitigate risks through debris removal missions and stricter deorbiting guidelines, amid concerns over whether current efforts will be enough to prevent orbital chaos."

https://thedebrief.org/the-kessler-syndrome-crisis-in-space-intensifies-as-thousands-of-satellites-crowd-earth-orbit/

#Satellites #SpacePollution #KesslerEffect #Starlink #DeadSatellites #DarkSkies

America needs a strong NASA

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/america-needs-a-strong-nasa/

Gravitics makes a $125M space station deal with Axiom
Marysville, Wash.-based Gravitics says it has won a $125 million contract from Axiom Space to provide a pressurized spacecraft for Axiom’s yet-to-be-launched commercial space station.

The hardware would play a utility role by providing a varie
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/07/09/gravitics-makes-a-125m-space-station-deal-with-axiom/
#GeekWire #AxiomSpace #CommercialSpaceflight #Gravitics #InternationalSpaceStation #Space #SpaceStations

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