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The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing launch assemblyarstechnica.com/space/2026/01/the-first-commercial-space-station-haven-1-is-now-undergoing-assembly-for-launch/
266 sats \ 4 comments \ @winteryeti 6h science

"NASA’s plan to replace the International Space Station with commercial space stations is running into a time crunch.

The sprawling International Space Station is due to be decommissioned less than five years from now, and the US space agency has yet to formally publish rules and requirements for the follow-on stations being designed and developed by several different private companies."

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 6h

That's interesting. Is it being called a commercial space station because private companies are launching it? Or will it actually be a revenue generating enterprise?

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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 6h

It's also interesting we go from an international space station to something that seems to be solely driven by US companies. I wonder what the other agencies will go for, and whether they still will be involved.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada). As the largest space station ever constructed, it primarily serves as a platform for conducting scientific experiments in microgravity and studying the space environment.

From Wikipedia.

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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @winteryeti OP 6h

Good question. There's a lot of chatter in the last few years about commercial space ventures. Maybe this is the start.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 4h

I think the idea is both.

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