Above: Space Development Corporation (formerly Orbital Assembly Corporation) is an American aerospace company that has announced several widely publicized plans to build various
space station
A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains orbital spaceflight, in orbit and human spaceflight, hosts humans for extended periods of time. It therefore is an artificial satellite featuring space habitat (facility), habitat ...
s. , no funding for the projects has been announced and construction of the stations has not started.
The Voyager Space Station or Voyager Station (previously the Von Braun Station) is a proposed
rotating wheel space station
A rotating wheel space station, also known as a von Braun wheel, is a concept for a hypothetical wheel-shaped space station. Originally proposed by Herman Potočnik in 1929, and popularized by Wernher von Braun in 1952.
Specifications
This type o ...
, planned to start construction in 2026. The space station aims to be the first commercial space hotel.
It is proposed that the
SpaceX Starship
Starship is a two-stage fully reusable launch vehicle, reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. On 20 April 2023, with the Starship flight test 1, first Integrated Flight Test, Starship b ...
could be used to shuttle
space tourists
Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. Tourists are motivated by the possibility of viewing Earth from space, ...
to the Voyager Station, which would accommodate 280 guests and 112 crew members. The cost of a trip to the station has not been officially published, but some estimates are that it would be approximately US$5 million, and would require the passengers to undergo safety and physical training before boarding the shuttle for a day trip to the space station.
The cost of the space station has been estimated to be in the "tens of billions".
Voyager Station would have partial
artificial gravity
Artificial gravity is the creation of an inertial force that mimics the effects of a gravitational force, usually by rotation.
Artificial gravity, or rotational gravity, is thus the appearance of a centrifugal force in a rotating frame of ...
from its rotation to maintain
lunar gravity—approximately of Earth's gravity.
Above Space has also announced a smaller Pioneer Station that can house only 28 people but could be operational earlier.
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Gateway Spaceport
Gateway Spaceport was formed in 2012 to build the first rotating spaceport and space hotel. On January 1, 2022, Gateway Foundation's name was changed to Gateway Spaceport LLC.
Their plan to develop the spaceport includes developing a robust spa ...
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List of space stations
Past stations
These stations have re-entered the atmosphere and disintegrated.
The Soviet Union ran two programs simultaneously in the 1970s, both of which were called Salyut program, Salyut publicly. The Long Duration Orbital Station (DOS ...
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Crewed spacecraft
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