I’m no engineer, but I’ve tended to think this particular station design concept looks a lot more likely to work out than the other commercial station proposals out there. Intuitively, having a single habitation section done up just as one big cylinder on the end of a section for power and launched in one big piece is one of the simplest designs a space station could have, and given that private entities have not previously launched and operated their own stations, let alone found a way to do so profitably, going for a less ambitious design feels like a good move to get something started with. But maybe I’m underestimating the complexity of this design or overestimating the difficultly of the other proposals based on modular construction.
I’m no engineer, but I’ve tended to think this particular station design concept looks a lot more likely to work out than the other commercial station proposals out there. Intuitively, having a single habitation section done up just as one big cylinder on the end of a section for power and launched in one big piece is one of the simplest designs a space station could have, and given that private entities have not previously launched and operated their own stations, let alone found a way to do so profitably, going for a less ambitious design feels like a good move to get something started with. But maybe I’m underestimating the complexity of this design or overestimating the difficultly of the other proposals based on modular construction.