Waspie_Dwarf Posted April 12, 2016 #1 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Atlas 5 to launch commercial space habitat for Bigelow Aerospace The maker of inflatable technology for a commercial space station will use a top-of-the-line Atlas 5 rocket with a stretched nose cone to hoist the first habitat into Earth orbit in 2020.Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance announced the partnership today at the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Read more... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crandles57 Posted April 13, 2016 #2 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Bigelow suggests they will have a market to launch 10 space stations. Just wondering whether it would make sense for these all to be attached together so it would only be 1 space station? Probably a little more work to make them connect together, but wouldn't this be worth it as each could get away with less multiple redundancy of critical systems and still have much improved multiple redundancy overall? Maybe extra docking ports needed just adds more weight than that saved by reducing multiple redundancy of critical systems? If lots of countries each wanted their own space station, maybe they wouldn't agree to this but if those countries aren't actually building their own space station just leasing them from a private company that aspect seems likely to be much less important. So what do people think? Will we have lots of separate space stations or will we just get a sprawling space station with modules being added on as more space needed? Or maybe there just will never be the demand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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