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Vast (also styled Vast Space) is a privately held American aerospace company headquartered in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 2021 by entrepreneur Jed McCaleb with the goal of developing artificial gravity space stations to "expand humanity beyond the solar system".
In development. Length. 10.1 m (33 ft) Width. 3.8 m (12 ft) Haven-1 is a planned space station in low Earth orbit that is currently in development by American aerospace company Vast. [ 1 ] The station is expected to launch no earlier than August 2025 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9. The first mission to Haven-1, Vast-1, is expected to launch a crew of ...
Title. CTO of Stellar. Website. jedmccaleb.com. Jed McCaleb is an American programmer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and ex-CEO of aerospace startup Vast [ 1 ][ 2 ] and a co-founder and the CTO of Stellar. [ 3 ] Prior to co-founding Stellar, McCaleb founded and served as the CTO of the company Ripple until 2013.
Website. www.impulsespace.com. Impulse Space was founded in 2021 by Tom Mueller, employee No.1 at SpaceX and engineer of the Merlin and Draco rocket engines that power the Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft. [1] The company develops in-space transportation services for satellites that fly to Low Earth Orbit then need to reach other orbits.
Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P., [2] commonly referred to as Blue Origin [3] is an American aerospace manufacturer, government contractor, launch service provider, [4] [5] and space technologies [6] company headquartered in Kent, Washington, United States.
The Exploration Company is a European spacecraft manufacturer. [1] Based in Munich, Germany and Bordeaux, France, the company develops, manufactures and operates the Nyx space capsule for space agencies and space stations as well as both space and non-space companies in other industries. [2] Although the company's first missions will be cargo ...
13 April 1974 – Western Union Westar 1 becomes America's first domestic and commercially launched geostationary communications satellite. 1975 – OTRAG, the first company to attempt private development and manufacture of space propulsion systems, is founded in Stuttgart, Germany, though its program is ultimately abandoned in the early 1980s.
Width. 8 m (26 ft) Starlab is a planned LEO (low Earth orbit) commercial space station, which is expected to launch no earlier than 2028. It is currently being designed by Starlab Space, a joint venture between Voyager Space (majority shareholder in Nanoracks) and Airbus. [ 1 ] It is planned to be launched before the decommissioning of the ISS.