Axiom Space has raised $350 million to advance development of a commercial space station and new spacesuits for NASA.

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Max Space, a startup developing expandable module technologies, plans to build a commercial space station that could launch on a single Falcon 9 rocket.

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Starlab Space has secured funding from an investment group as development of its proposed commercial space station reaches a critical phase.

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Axiom Space has awarded a contract to Redwire to provide solar arrays for the first module of Axiom’s planned commercial space station.

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WASHINGTON — The chief executive of commercial space station developer Vast says he supports NASA’s revised approach to supporting development of such stations, calling it the best way to avoid […]

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The inclusion of a 30-day demonstration mission in revised plans by NASA to support development of commercial space stations does not represent a permanent shift to shorter missions.

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NASA expects to spend up to $1.5 billion to support at least two companies to demonstrate crew-tended space stations as part of a revised approach to transition from the ISS.

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Redwire is making a bigger push into space pharmaceutical development with a new business entity devoted to the field.

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NASA is changing course in its plans to support development of commercial space stations, a move that could also mean an end of a NASA permanent human presence in LEO

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Industry officials issued a stark warning that proposed NASA budget cuts to the International Space Station could jeopardize both the operation of the station and the transition to commercial stations.

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House appropriators want NASA to examine alternatives to a new upper stage for the Space Launch System despite an uncertain long-term future for the vehicle.

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The European Space Agency has signed an agreement regarding potential use of Orbital Reef as it refines its strategy for use of commercial space stations.

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The International Space Station has been a hub for human space exploration and research for over two decades, but its operational life is nearing its end, projected around 2030. As […]

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Even as NASA and its partners on the ISS shift to commercial space stations, NASA’s former deputy administrator believes there will still be a role for multilateral coordination.

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NASA’s latest call for proposals for private astronaut missions to the space station opens the door to having those missions commanded by someone other than a former NASA astronaut.

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Vast has signed an agreement with NASA to test its Haven-1 space station at an agency facility ahead of its launch next year.

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Vast has started testing a qualification model of its first commercial space station but has pushed back the launch of that station into 2026.

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We stand on the brink of a transformative era in space exploration: a shift from government-led to commercial-led activities off-planet. With this shift comes the need to recognize that the […]

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NASA’s deputy administrator says there is nearly unanimous support for its LEO microgravity strategy that endorses keeping humans in orbit continuously.

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A NASA authorization bill introduced in the Senate in the final days of the current Congress irected NASA to accelerate work on commercial space stations.

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NASA has endorsed the need to have humans in orbit continuously as it navigates the transition from the ISS to commercial stations.

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NASA is rethinking its desire for a “continuous human presence” in low Earth orbit during the transition from the International Space Station to commercial platforms to include options where, at least temporarily, the agency may not always have astronauts in orbit.

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Vast Space unveiled the design of the space station it plans to propose to NASA in the next phase of the agency’s program to develop commercial successors to the International Space Station.

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Sierra Space has completed a second full-scale burst test of an inflatable module that the company is developing for the Orbital Reef commercial space station and its own efforts.

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