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Raumfahrt - Sierra Nevada, prepping for Florida launch and landing, unveils space station concept

3.04.2021

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Sierra Nevada, the company aiming to launch and land its Dream Chaser spaceplane on the Space Coast, unveiled its take on an Earth-orbiting space station this week, joining a series of others aiming to find alternatives to the aging International Space Station.

Renderings released by the Colorado-based company show a low-orbit station comprised of several inflatable modules, each 27 feet in length, flanked by Dream Chaser mini-shuttles. Inflatable fabric habitats are generally more compact and lighter than traditional space structures and can fly on many different vehicles.

Sierra Nevada on Wednesday said the proposed space station uses the company's products from top to bottom, including Dream Chaser, the disposable Shooting Star cargo module, and its in-development inflatable habitats.

"The next phase is to create a completely holistic space infrastructure," said Janet Kavandi, an executive vice president at Sierra Nevada and former space shuttle astronaut. "We plan to launch our vehicles to our platform with inflatable modules, service it with our own Dream Chaser vehicles both crewed and uncrewed, take people back and forth from the station, and then return them safely to Earth."

 

 

 

 

 
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