Blue Origin and Sierra Space unveil plans for commercial space station
The privately-funded outpost will provide a destination in orbit after the International Space Station is retired.
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So it seems to be squarely aimed at the commercial space station element of NASA's NextSTEP program.
Orbital Reef passes design review
by Jeff Foust — April 5, 2022
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Orbital Reef, a commercial space station being developed by a consortium of companies, has completed an initial design review as part of a NASA award.
Blue Origin and Sierra Space, the lead partners in the project, announced April 5 that Orbital Reef completed a system requirements review. The review was one of the first milestones in a $130 million funded Space Act Agreement NASA awarded the companies as part of its Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations, or CLD, program.
The review examined the design of Orbital Reef as well as its technical specifications, planned operations and feasibility of development plans. Sierra Space said the review led to no changes in the station’s design.
WASHINGTON — A proposed commercial space station has passed a key early NASA review, allowing it to move into the next phase of its design.
Blue Origin and Sierra Space, the lead partners on the Orbital Reef station, said Aug. 22 that the station passed a system definition review (SDR) with NASA. The review is part of a Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations, or CLD, award they received from the agency last December to mature the design of Orbital Reef.
The review, conducted between mid-June and mid-July, was intended to confirm that the Orbital Reef concept met various functional and performance requirements. Passing the review allows the companies to further develop the overall design of the space station.
I don't know. I just found them in my digital scrapbook. Judging by the fact that there is a computational fluid dynamics simulation and a wind tunnel model, they were at some stage what Blue Origin was working on seriously before it got put aside for a decade.Frassanito and Associates had art of a longer craft...who commissioned that?