12 April 2016
ULA teams up with Bigelow
...and I right now are standing here, looking right into it." Bigelow has already flown three expandable modules in space - the free...prototypes, which launched in 2006 and 2007, and the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which has just arrived at...
30 May 2016
BEAM module fully expanded on ISS
... Activity Module is an experimental expandable space station module developed by Bigelow Aerospace, under contract to NASA. In 2012, Bigelow Aerospace was awarded a $17.8 million contract to construct BEAM as part of NASA's Advanced Exploration...
25 February 2018
Space Architecture Education for Engineers and Architects
.... But it is becoming increasingly relevant as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) continues to orbit Earth attached to... the International Space Station, and Bigelow Aerospace makes plans to launch its B330 standalone space...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... high commercial potential yet may also benefit from government support. Elon Musk, Bezos, and Robert Bigelow, along with some of us at the smaller end of this community, do indeed work with government funds at times but...
July 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
...-electric turbine - a fundamental technology that provides electric power around the world today. Inflatable structures used by Bigelow Aerospace for a private space station may be re-purposed to generate high powered magnetic fields to protect Earth...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... functions a single station could not provide. Formations could easily be extended, perhaps with craft like the Bigelow commercial modules. The proposal here is to launch the Chinese Space Station (CSS) to the ISS orbit with...
