Starlab

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Low Earth Orbit Launch Complex 39A Starship Pad Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Private space station developed by a joint venture between Voyager Space and Airbus.

Starship

Family:
Configuration: N/A

Starship (unknown version)

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    124.4 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Launch Mass
    5000.0 T
  • Thrust
    80807.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Starship
  • Family
  • Variant
    N/A
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Starship
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    100000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

SpaceX

SpaceX

(SpX)

CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 715 Failures: 15 Pending: 128

Agency Type:

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

INFO WIKI
SpaceNews

Starlab Space fully books commercial payload space on planned space station

The Starlab commercial space station has fully booked its commercial payload space as the joint venture developing it awaits the next phase of a NASA program. The post Starlab Space fully books commercial payload space on planned space st…

SpaceNews

LambdaVision books space on Starlab commercial space station

LambdaVision, a company that has used microgravity experiments on the International Space Station to develop an artificial retina, has booked space on a planned commercial successor. The post LambdaVision books space on Starlab commercial…

SpaceNews

Starlab partners unveil full-scale mockup of commercial space station

SYDNEY, Australia – Starlab Space unveiled a full-scale mockup of the commercial space station at the International Astronautical Congress here. “We’re showing how large the station is going to be — 100% of the capacity of ISS,” Matt Magañ…

Arstechnica

Starlab—with half the volume of the ISS—will fit inside Starship’s payload bay

"Building and integrating in space is very expensive."

SpaceNews

Starlab commercial space station to launch on Starship

Starlab Space, the joint venture developing the Starlab commercial space station, has selected SpaceX’s Starship to launch the station on a single flight.

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Launch Complex 39A Starship Pad


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