{"id":13919,"date":"2025-01-22T21:05:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=13919"},"modified":"2025-01-22T21:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:05:50","slug":"this-company-wants-to-build-a-space-station-that-has-artificial-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=13919","title":{"rendered":"This Company Wants to Build a Space Station That Has Artificial Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"


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California-based Vast Space<\/span> has big ambitions. The company is aiming to launch a commercial space station, the Haven-2, into low Earth orbit by 2028, which would allow astronauts to stay in space after the decommissioning of the International Space Station<\/a> (ISS) in 2030. In doing so, it is attempting to muscle in on NASA\u2019s<\/a> plans to develop commercial low-orbit space stations with partner organizations\u2014but most ambitious of all are Vast Space\u2019s goals for what it will eventually put into space: a station that has its own artificial gravity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that in weightlessness we can live a year or so, and in conditions that are not easy. Perhaps, however, lunar or Martian gravity is enough to live comfortably for a lifetime. The only way to find out is to build stations with artificial gravity, which is our long-term goal,\u201d says Max Haot, Vast\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n

Vast Space was founded in 2021 by 49-year-old programmer and businessman Jed McCaleb, the creator of the peer-to-peer networks eDonkey and Overnet, as well as the early and now defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox<\/a>. Vast Space announced in mid-December a partnership with SpaceX<\/a> to launch two missions to the ISS, which will be milestones in the company\u2019s plan to launch its first space station, Haven-1, later in 2025<\/a>. The missions, still without official launch dates, will fall within NASA\u2019s private astronaut missions program, through which the space agency wants to promote the development of a space economy in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n

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