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Spaceflight 🚀Feb 18, 2023

📆 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

Investing in Space: The space station kingmaker

Several U.S. companies are working to build orbiting habitats to replace the aging International Space Station, with NASA key to seeding the fledgling market.

CNBC

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#ISS The #Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (#BEAM) was installed 📆 2016 and will remain attached to the station until 📆 2028. #NASA noted in 📆 2017, after spending one year in #space, the BEAM instrumentation had recorded "a few probable #micrometeoroid ☄️ #debris #impacts" but that the module's #protective layers 🛡️ had resisted #penetration. It has #exceeded expectations and is used as additional #cargo 📦 storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Expandable_Activity_Module

Picture : Alexander Gerst, Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Sergey Prokopyev inside BEAM 📆 2018 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISS-56_Alexander_Gerst,_Serena_Au%C3%B1%C3%B3n-Chancellor_and_Sergey_Prokopyev_inside_the_BEAM.jpg

Bigelow Expandable Activity Module - Wikipedia