Spaceflight 🚀Where to book and what else to consider for your private #spaceflight 🚀 https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Space
20 things to see 📷 on the #Moon https://www.astronomy.com/observing/things-to-see-on-the-moon-an-observers-guide-to-lunar-names/
🧭 #Navigation : #Marble is a virtual globe 🌐 application which allows the user to choose among the #Earth, the #Moon, #Venus, #Mars and other planets 🪐 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_(software) | https://marble.kde.org
"Think of something profound to say on your arrival. Things that the #Apollo astronauts 👨🚀 said on their arrival includes [...] https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Moon
4️⃣0️⃣ #SpaceStation & #SpaceHabitat companies https://www.factoriesinspace.com/space-stations
📆 2025 Lunar Gateway #NASA #ESA #CSA #JAXA
📆 2025 Haven-1 #VastSpace
📆 2026 Axiom Station #AxiomSpace
📆 2026 StarMax #Gravitics
📆 2026 LIFE Pathfinder #SierraSpace
📆 2027 Russian Orbital Service Station #Roscosmos
📆 2028 Starlab #NanoRacks #VoyagerSpace #Airbus #MDASpace #Mitsubishi
📆 second half 2020s Orbital Reef #BlueOrigin #SierraSpace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_stations#Planned_and_proposed
• #AxiomStation is believed to have been downsized to two modules from the originally planned four.
• The #VAST #Haven-2’s first module is scheduled to launch in 📆 2028
• #OrbitalReef is designed with 830 cubic meters of internal volume, 90 percent of the internal volume on the #ISS
• #Starlab launch is scheduled for 📆 2028
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/10/commercial-space-stations/
• The #VAST #Haven-2’s first module is scheduled to launch in 📆 2028
• #OrbitalReef is designed with 830 cubic meters of internal volume, 90 percent of the internal volume on the #ISS
• #Starlab launch is scheduled for 📆 2028
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/10/commercial-space-stations/
#Competition accelerates #innovation : "What if we actually build a #SpaceStation, launch 🚀 it in #orbit, have a crew 👨🚀 of four go to it, spend two weeks at least in the space station, and come back home safely…before the U.S. #government makes their decision?” (in 📆 2026) https://youtu.be/us_V_e0-NVs?feature=shared&t=205
The Race to Replace the ISS | VAST's American-Made Space Station
The primary structure of the #SpaceStation was built in just 15 months. #Haven1 is expected to be launched in 📆 May 2026. It consists of a cylindrical module measuring 10 meters in length and 4.40 meters in diameter. The 45 cubic meter habitat got 1.10 meter windows. Four #Haven2 modules are to be in space by 📆 2030. The station is to grow to nine modules by 📆 2032. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Haven-1-Vast-Space-wants-to-launch-its-private-space-station-into-space-in-2026-10277222.html
#ThalesAlenia Space Italia 🇮🇹 will deliver the Payload Power Thermal Module to Axiom in 2025 for final outfitting and a launch 🚀 no earlier than 📆 2027. Axiom would then launch the first #habitat module, #Hab1, in 📆 2028 https://spacenews.com/axiom-space-revises-space-station-assembly-plans
The Gravitics #SpaceStation modules range from 3 meters to 8 meters 📏 in diameter. The company aims to provide space station modules as a plug-and-play product line that can launch on a variety of #rockets. #Gravitics plans to have a subscale spacecraft launched by 📆 2026 https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/09/gravitics-lands-125-million-order-from-axiom.html
#Musk has likely told #Trump that #NASA does not need to fund private space stations in #LEO. A version of #Starship could be developed to provide a semi-permanent presence. This would wreck the business plans of multiple #US companies working to provide this capability for NASA. https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/02/elon-musk-recommends-that-the-international-space-station-be-deorbited-asap/
