"Starship to Launch Starlab: A New Era in Commercial Space Stations"
TL;DR
The Starlab commercial space station, a joint venture between Voyager Space and Airbus, will launch on SpaceX's Starship rocket with a habitable volume equivalent to half of the International Space Station's. It is set to launch no earlier than 2028 and will fit inside Starship's payload bay in a single flight. The involvement of Airbus makes Starlab attractive to European nations as a destination, potentially providing an advantage in finding customers beyond NASA to support the expense of flying and operating the station.
Topics:technologyspace-technology#airbus#space-station#space-technology#spacex#starlab#voyager-space
- Starlab—with half the volume of the ISS—will fit inside Starship's payload bay Ars Technica
- Starlab, meet Starship: Private space station buys SpaceX launch for later this decade CNBC
- SpaceX's Starship Wins Contract to Launch Airbus Space Station Bloomberg
- Starlab commercial space station to launch on Starship SpaceNews
- SpaceX's Giant Starship Tapped to Launch Starlab's Giant Steel Space Station Gizmodo
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