@spaceflight "Voyager Station" got totally rebranded and scaled down as Above Space's Pioneer Station. Thank goodness, because the original Voyager Station concept was way too big to start with. Of the 8, Pioneer still seems like the most Powerpointy and least likely to actually happen, though.
@shnonks the company has been renamed (again), yes. There's near to no planning details, so also "powerpointy" 🙄. But the (planned) size is still big ?
200m diameter
440 occupants https://abovespace.com/voyager
I'm pretty sure some billionaires 💰 are already waiting for #Starship to be ready as a #SpaceLogistics 🚚 opportunity to build a hotel 🏨. Whether they'll need the current staff 👨🔬 remains to be seen.
@spaceflight I’d say that Starlab, AxiomStation, and Haven1 are the only private proposals that have any chance of actually ending up operational. (And I give no chance for any rotating station to be functional by 2035 — the engineering unknowns are just too great, and the diameter needed to make rotation comfortable is quite large.)
@spaceflight Yeah, it’s not a great space hotel if its visitors are busy vomiting from motion sickness and disorientation.
And while artificial gravity is useful long-term, I’m not sure tourist paying to go to space for a short period don’t want to be in free fall. Isn’t that part of the point of being in space?
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