January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... to detach from the ISS to operate as a free-flying commercial space station after the ISS is deorbited. Private space stations It was not NASA that first thought of private commercial space stations. There were many science fiction writers and movie...
22 October 2021
Nanoracks announces plans to launch its orbital space station, Starlab, in 2027
... ideal for technology development and test. “Since the beginning, Nanoracks has sought to own and operate a private space station to fully unlock market demand,” says Jeffrey Manber, CEO and Co-Founder of Nanoracks. “Our team has spent...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... partnership of an anarchist such as Walt with former Soviets, and NASA, fearing the contrast between a low-cost private space station and what was to turn out to be their US$100 billion facility, decided to block the export of a key technology...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
..., i.e. 100km, such as high altitude platforms systems, dark sky stations, robotic freighters, and even the deployment of private space stations and space colonies in orbit or on celestial bodies. Many of these activities involve totally new types...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
.... Having recently emerged from ‘stealth mode’, the company was advertising “Haven-1… scheduled to be the world’s first private space station” (ostensibly from 2025). While it’s always great to see new companies that are ‘keeping the dream alive...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... 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. In his honour, I hope that the...
