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Genesis I is an experimental space habitat designed and built by the private American firm Bigelow Aerospace and launched in 2006. It was the first module to be sent into orbit by the company, and tested various systems, materials and techniques related to determining the viability of long-term inflatable space structures through 2008.
The B330 (previously known as the Nautilus space complex module and BA 330) was an inflatable space habitat privately developed by Bigelow Aerospace from 2010 until 2020. [6] The design was evolved from NASA's TransHab habitat concept. B330 was to have 330 cubic meters (12,000 cu ft) of internal volume, hence its numeric designation.
Blue Ghost Mission 1 is a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Firefly Aerospace that launched on January 15, 2025, and landed on the Moon on March 2, 2025, at 08:34 UTC. Firefly Aerospace thus became the first commercial company to soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon. [ 3 ]
The crew module for the OFT-2 mission began acceptance testing in August 2020, which is designed to validate the spacecraft's systems before it is mated with its service module, according to NASA. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] On November 10, 2020, NASA's Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich said that the second orbital flight test would be ...
1 Operational 2018 2018 DC power up to 15KW IMS 1: India ISRO: 30 kg 100 kg 2: Operational 2008 2011 220 W power IMS 2: India ISRO: 200 kg 450 kg [26] [27] [28] 1: Operational 2013 2013 800 W power PSLV Orbital Experiment Module: India ISRO: 30 kg 930 kg 4 Operational 2022 2024 [29] 200 - 500 W power SSL 1300: United States SSL (company) 3,000 ...
In 2019, it was announced that an expendable Shooting Star cargo module would be part of the Dream Chaser cargo system for CRS-2 flights. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The module is a 15-foot-long (4.6 m) attachment to Dream Chaser that will allow the spacecraft to carry an additional 10,000 pounds (4,500 kg) of pressurized and unpressurized cargo to ISS.
Axiom's fifth module, the Research and Manufacturing Facility Module with Earth Observatory (RMF), is expected to be launched in the early 2030s. [ 14 ] [ 13 ] It will provide access to the unique microgravity environment as a platform to enable research, product development, process improvement, and space manufacturing. [ 17 ]
The Apollo Lunar Module (LM / ˈ l ɛ m /), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface during the United States' Apollo program. It was the first crewed spacecraft to operate exclusively in the airless vacuum of space, and remains the only ...