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Bigelow Aerospace has plans to launch and sell its own space stations

Whether it’s for scientific discovery or recreation, a whole lot of folks have their eyes on the stars — and Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace, a company which creates livable inflatable space habitats, is here to help.

This week, Bigelow announced the creation of a new spinoff company called Bigelow Space Operations that will manage and operate space stations built developed by its parent company. What does that mean? Simply put, the company is totally serious about ushering in a world of commercial space living.

One Bigelow habitat, called the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), is already connected to the International Space Station (ISS). BEAM demonstrated that the company’s technology not only works in theory but in practice, too. The company next plans to launch additional space stations called B330s, boasting close to 12,000 cubic feet of space when expanded, making them around one-third the size of the ISS. These are planned to launch on two spacecraft in 2021.

After that, Bigelow Aerospace has announced that it plans to manufacture a single space station, launched on a single rocket, containing more than 2.4 times the pressurized volume of the entire ISS.

Source :- digitaltrends

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