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"WASHINGTON — Commercial space station developer Vast Space says it plans to bid on two future NASA private astronaut missions to the International Space Station, providing competition to Axiom Space.
During a panel discussion at the Federal Aviation Administration Commercial Space Transportation Conference Feb. 21, Max Haot, chief executive of Vast, said his company would bid on the fifth and sixth private astronaut missions, or PAMs, that NASA offers to companies seeking to flying commercial missions to the ISS.
“From our point of view, it will make us a better space station builder, a better partner of NASA, and it will help us practice a lot of the disciplines we are building” for its future commercial stations, he said of Vast’s plan to bid on the missions.
Axiom has been the only company selected by NASA for private missions to the station under a policy the agency rolled out in 2019. The company flew its Ax-1 mission to the station in April 2022, Ax-2 in May 2023 and the Ax-3 mission that concluded Feb. 9. NASA selected Axiom for a fourth PAM, Ax-4, scheduled for this fall. The company has previously expressed interest in bidding on future PAM opportunities.
Axiom has been selected for most of those PAM opportunities with little or no competition. In a January 2023 source selection statement, NASA stated that it received proposals only from Axiom for the third and fourth PAM opportunities, which became Ax-3 and Ax-4. Axiom was previously identified as the sole bidder for the second PAM, Ax-2.
Axiom says those missions have helped the company prepare for its commercial space station, beginning with modules it will install on the ISS starting in 2026. “The private astronaut missions are really this incredible learning opportunity both for the federal government and for Axiom,” said Jared Stout, vice president and chief of staff for government and external relations at Axiom, on the panel. “We learn how to operate these missions alongside NASA. We’re able to develop our customer pipelines on science and research.”
During an earlier session of the panel, Michael Lopez-Alegria, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the Ax-1 and Ax-3 missions for Axiom, said the company had “learned a ton” since Ax-1 to Ax-3, working with NASA to tailor the training needed for the missions. “Ax-2 was much better and I think Ax-3 was even better.”
Haot says Vast wants to reap similar benefits as it prepares for its station. “To be able to leverage the ISS and learn, and work closely with NASA, is really a key part of the transition” from the ISS to commercial stations."
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VAST is excited to announce that we will compete to offer NASA private astronaut missions to the ISS. Diversity of providers will enhance competition and give customers more options. It will also help transfer critical ISS expertise from NASA to more potential commercial LEO destination providers. For Vast, it will leverage the team and capability we are building for Haven-1 and give us an opportunity to perform a crewed mission with NASA — proving capabilities such as customer sales, crew training, medical, mission ops and management, payload integration, IT security and control room infrastructure.
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So come for the "I hate men. At least most men. I am looking for the man who can change my opinion" and stay for a dive into NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's winding down of its #TDRS constellation and how #SATCOM providers are going to fill in any communications gaps.
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First implementation of new rules developed by WRC-23 under Agenda Item 1.17
The hours spent as chairman of this group trying to find a compromise were not in vain ;-)
📰 #SESNews: Together with Planet Labs, SES Space & Defense has demonstrated the first multi-orbit, multi-band commercial low-latency LEO Relay in support of the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Communications Services Project (CSP).
Leveraging #O3bmPOWER and Planet’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) flight-representative terminal, the demonstration successfully showcased a complete data flow through the LEO Relay System (LRS) service, marking an important milestone and setting the stage for further demonstrations and the launch of the operational service offering in the future.
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“In 2025, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is scheduled to once again bring man and machine to the lunar surface, this time under the name of the Greek goddess Artemis. However, the means to the ends have changed. The new Artemis missions lean more heavily on the aid of private space companies than their predecessor Apollo missions1, with private enterprises developing the systems, stations, and vehicles to make the ten proposed Artemis missions a reality.
Not only is NASA using private companies, but the United States Air Force (USAF) and United States Space Force (USSF) also rely on private space innovation to varying degrees. Programs such as AFWERX and SpaceWERX have allowed the United States military to accelerate the development of cutting-edge technology and collaborate with dual-use space tech startups. In fact, the private space industry is projected to increase to more than US$1 trillion by 2040, attracting both private and public investment.2
With these rapid increases in funding and activity, private space companies can look to patents to protect their technologies. The United States patent system, in particular, anticipates some of the challenges that arise with inventions that are used in outer space”.
According to SpaceNews, the agencies signed an agreement last where NASA will provide throttable braking engines that will be used on a new descent stage being developed by ESA and radioisotope heating units (RHUs), which use heat from the decay of plutonium-238 to keep the spacecraft warm. The RHUs also require a launch from the United States on a vehicle NASA will procure.
The NASA contributions replace components previously provided by Roscosmos before ESA halted cooperation when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
NASA's fiscal year 2025 budget proposal projected spending $339 million on the Rosalind Franklin mission through fiscal year 2029.
The landing system for the rover is now being developed by ESA which awarded a contract worth 522 million euros ($566 million) to Thales Alenia Space to restart work on the mission.
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Utah Space Port Committee effort o1 1971
A Failed Dream
BY ERIC G. SWEDIN
In 1971, as the Apollo program was still putting astronauts on the moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) envisioned space travel and exploration in the future. Though many space enthusiasts hoped for a large space station or moon base, a reusable spacecraft called the space shuttle was projected as the next obvious step, because putting people and cargo into orbit with single-use booster rockets was very expensive. When budget cutters in the Nixon Administration cancelled the final three planned Apollo moon flights, NASA decided to build a winged booster vehicle and winged orbiter that could each be able to fly back to the ground for reuse, dramatically lowering launch costs. NASA wanted a “space truck” that could carry into orbit astronauts, satellites, sections of a space station, or sections of vehicles to be assembled in space in order to later take astronauts to Mars. 1
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