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NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 βˆ’ and welcome in the age of commercial space stations (www.space.com)
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Meanwhile the Tiangong space station began construction in 2021 and has been continuously crewed since June 2022. It currently has capacity for six people, and via UNOOSA-organized cooperation has plans to host experiments from 17 countries including Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Spain. The first non-Chinese person to travel there will likely be from Pakistan. (The US would be welcome too but Congress currently prohibits NASA from participating.)

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[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Before anyone brings these up:

  • raising the orbit would take a crazy amount of Delta V and is not feasible
  • detaching the Russian segment is impossible because of cold welding and all the external connections
  • no one commercial wants it because of the insane maintenance work and cost

The commercial replacements could each get multiple articles devoted to them. I feel good about Vast and Axiom beating the ISS deorbit deadline.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel good about Vast and Axiom beating the ISS deorbit deadline.

Vast yes, Axiom maybe. I'd give Voyager/Nanoracks a "maybe" as well.

I still think there's a decent chance that there will be a gap in continuous 30-year streak of crewed U.S. spaceflight. Not that it matters in the long-term, but I suspect it's a streak which China won't cede to any other country if they can help it.

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Voyager and Blue are such unknowns to me. I haven't seen hardware, so I'm doubtful.