Show threadSpaceflight 🚀1d ago

#Yuri, a German space 🌌 #biotech company, has reserved an unspecified amount of payload space on #Starlab for the station’s first full year of commercial operations.

Starlab Space selected SpaceX’s #Starship to launch the station. It said it has a launch contract priced at $90 million to send Starlab to orbit https://spacenews.com/starlab-space-fully-books-commercial-payload-space-on-planned-space-station/

#SpaceStation #SpaceEconomy

Starlab Space fully books commercial payload space on planned space station

The Starlab commercial space station has fully booked its commercial payload space as it awaits the next phase of a NASA program.

SpaceNews
Show threadSpaceflight 🚀1d ago

For $90 million, in one single launch, Voyager will put in orbit a #SpaceStation with 400 cubic meters of volume, able to support 100% of the work that's currently being done aboard #ISS https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/03/21/how-much-will-a-spacex-starship-launch-cost/

#Starlab #Starship #LaunchCost #SpaceX

How Much Will a SpaceX Starship Launch Cost?

SpaceX's Starship is just as powerful as you've heard -- and costs a lot less than you'd think.

The Motley Fool
Laborjournal6d ago
Wolkig mit Aussicht auf… #Personalmangel, #Stress, #Sparmaßnahmen und zu viel #Bürokratie ...
#Starlab veröffentlichte sein sechstes #Stimmungsbarometer der Laborbranche. Die Ergebnisse fasst Mario Rembold im Laborjournalartikel zusammen: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3458.php
#Laborjournal #LifeSci #Labor #Arbeitsbedingungen
SpaceNewsMar 10

Starlab Space fully books commercial payload space on planned space station

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/starlab-space-fully-books-commercial-payload-space-on-planned-space-station/

Starlab Space fully books commercial payload space on planned space station

The Starlab commercial space station has fully booked its commercial payload space as it awaits the next phase of a NASA program.

SpaceNews
SpaceNewsFeb 26

Space Force keeps door open to future human presence in orbit

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/space-force-keeps-door-open-to-future-human-presence-in-orbit/

Cosmic LogFeb 9

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

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…

Cosmic Log
Alan BoyleFeb 9
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. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/design-space-station-teague/ #Space #Design
Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Jan 26

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

Payload Field Guide: Commercial LEO Destination

As the ISS nears its retirement date at the end of the decade, companies are vying to build its commercial successor under NASA’s Commercial LEO Destination (CLD) program.

Payload
Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Jan 25

📆 April 2026 #CLD Phase 2 awards trigger immediate hiring, facility investment, and supply chain commitments. Initial module launches 🚀 anticipated in 📆 2028-2029 for most designs. NASA requires stations to achieve operational capability before #ISS deorbit, currently planned for 2030. Companies must execute flawlessly or risk losing #NASA’s anchor tenancy to competitors who deliver operational capability 🌌 first https://www.exterrajsc.com/p/congressional-budget-victory-cements

#SpaceStation #Starlab #ESA #Airbus

Congressional Budget Victory Cements NASA’s Commercial-First Strategy

What $27.5 Billion Means for Space Industry Partnerships

The Journal of Space Commerce
Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Jan 24

#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

Commercial space stations: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026

The first commercial orbital outpost is scheduled to launch this May.

MIT Technology Review