Фото: Blue Origin
The new space station will look like this
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is partnering with Boeing and Sierra Space to build a commercial space station called Orbital Reef.
Business has entered space and never ceases to amaze with the scale of new projects. Jeff Bezos promises to build an entire space business park by 2030, which will lease space for money.
Grand plans
It is planned that the Orbital Reef station will be able to accommodate up to ten people. The station can be used for filming in zero gravity and conducting various studies. The creation of a space hotel for tourists is also planned.
“There is room for everyone on the Orbital Reef,” Blue Origin said in a statement. sponsored inventors. “
Reef already has a Twitter account where you can follow the progress of the station’s creation.
The total planned area of the station is about 3000 square meters. At a press conference on Monday, representatives from Blue Origin and Sierra Space declined to name an approximate cost for the station. However, Jeff Bezos has previously committed to invest in Blue Origin, which also sends tourists into space, for at least a billion dollars a year.
Blue Origin reports that the company’s partners in the station project will undertake the design of individual modules. Sierra Space, for example, will create a Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitation module and a Dream Chaser spacecraft that can take off and land on conventional runways.
Goodbye ISS!
Bezos’s announcement comes amid discussions about the future of the International Space Station. The station will receive funding until at least 2030, but it needs urgent repairs. Roscosmos representatives said that about 80% of the systems at the station have been in operation longer than planned.
Bezos’ project is no longer the only one of its kind – this week, plans to launch the station into low orbit by 2027 were announced by Nanoracks, Voyager Space and military aircraft giant Lockheed Martin.
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