schwit1 shares a report from UPI: SpaceX confirmed Wednesday it signed a contract to launch the world’s first industrial house station. The corporate additionally will carry out manned house flights shortly after launching the station into orbit “no later than August 2025,” SpaceX mentioned in a press release. The Haven-1 house station is being constructed by Huge, a personal aerospace firm primarily based in Lengthy Seashore, Calif. Its “mission is to contribute to a future the place billions of persons are residing and thriving in house — a future by which the human inhabitants and our sources increase far past our present creativeness.” Huge is solely funded by its billionaire founder and CEO Jed McCaleb.
SpaceX will use its Falcon 9 rocket to hold the Haven-1 station into orbit. Manned crews will then use the corporate’s Dragon reusable spacecraft to get to the house station, docking for as much as 30 days whereas in orbit. Huge plans for the preliminary module to grow to be half of a bigger 100-meter-long multi-module spinning house station with synthetic gravity. SpaceX confirmed it additionally will present crew coaching, in addition to spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress workout routines. SpaceX additionally will conduct mission simulations, as a part of the settlement with Huge. Crew choice is underway, the corporate mentioned Wednesday, and will probably be introduced at a future date.
