Vast Space Station Roadmap to 2030 and Beyond

This is the first indication that anyone building a real space station must spin up artificial gravity.  the tub is possible but also chancy in terms of internal stresses.  My bicycle wheel system cam also have a thin elevator tube to the rim without been structurally integral

A bicycle wheel can have a one mile diameter and a a cover sheet on both sides to hold a working atmosphere inside the Rim perimeter.

Even starting with a thin hub and suspension cables, it is a lot of trips.  but can be done.  A one g rim gravity allows for long term occupation

Vast Space Station Roadmap to 2030 and Beyond

By Brian Wang

JUL 22

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Vast is a startup building commercial in-space habitation, research, and manufacturing facilities</a> to serve NASA, ESA, DLR, and other government space agencies around the globe, driving demand for affordable and sustainable space transportation to LEO. Founded in 2021, Vast is building Haven-1, the world’s first private space station slated to launch no earlier than August 2025. Vast is developing their future Haven space station to serve NASA’s Commercial LEO Destinations (CLD) program. Vast’s long term goal is to build low-cost artificial gravity crewed stations so people can live and work in space for long periods of time without the adverse effects of zero-gravity.

Jed McCaleb is cryptocurrency billionaire behind Vast Space. Jed has a net worth of about $2.9 billion. Vast has a staff of over 120 people.

Beyond its Haven-1 space station, Vast has additional plans in the future to expand it by connecting it to a larger station that is also currently in development by Vast. There is different AI company called Vast Data. Vast Data has more funding and is a bigger company than Vast Space.

There are plans for a Starship-oriented variant of Haven-1, called the Starship-Class Module, that could be operational by as soon as 2028. In addition, Vast also has plans for a 110-meter spinning stick station by the 2030s and a fully-fledged proliferated station fleet by the 2040s.

The Starship class module would have 500 cubic meters of volume. This would be half the volume of the International Space Station.

The Artificial gravity (spinning) station would be over three times the volume of the ISS. This is seven of the Starship class modules connected end to end.

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