03 October 2021
Space Habitats and Habitability
... this academic but readable volume is a guide to the concepts of habitability and human factors in relation to space habitats. In seven information-packed chapters, it surveys a number of terrestrial ‘analogue’ studies, missions and facilities along...
18 March 2019
A habitat prototype for NASA’s Moon-orbiting Gateway
... Valania of Sierra Nevada Corp., who answered questions March 14 on Twitter about the company’s prototype of an inflatable deep-space habitat. NASA awarded six companies contracts worth a total of $65 million in 2016 to develop...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
...-support products for water processing and environmental management. And beyond that, Sierra Space plans clusters of interconnected space habitats where private space travellers arrive and depart on a fleet of privately-owned spaceplanes for science...
February 2016
A Self-Deployable Habitat for Extreme Environments (SHEE)
... of a standard Euro shipping container - and its capacity to automatically deploy, increasing the size of the habitat and usable space to accommodate a two person-crew. The overall inhabitable volume of approximately 50m? was based on current NASA...
February 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
... living autonomously in the hab for two weeks, as they would in a nominal short mission space scenario. SHEE is thus the first European space habitat simulator, and the first to be deployable through six petals. It is transportable by land, sea and...
02 April 2021
SNC unveils plan to build its own commercial space station
... and private and professional astronauts alike. Now, with a space habitat module already under construction, and a spaceplane that is being developed to fly cargo to the International Space Station starting in 2022, SNC said it is going to deploy its...
