NASA has a lot riding on these initiatives.
  • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Well, they ended their own, but now they’re in as a minor partner for Starlab with Voyager/Nanoracks to do cargo delivery. The NG station was a bunch of pimped out Cygnus cargo vehicles anyways, so this just saves them a bunch of development money and risk.

    With them out and Blue Origin/Sierra Space being noncommittal, maybe the next round of ISS replacement study/dev money might include Gravitics or Vast?

    • threelonmusketeersOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, Vast seems like an interesting candidate. Their first module (Haven-1) is scheduled to launch NET August 2025. Looking forward to following the development.