{"id":33147,"date":"2017-01-04T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T17:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-new-space-firm-plans-a-commercial-station-to-take-over-for-the-iss"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:26:21","slug":"a-new-space-firm-plans-a-commercial-station-to-take-over-for-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-new-space-firm-plans-a-commercial-station-to-take-over-for-the-iss","title":{"rendered":"A new space firm plans a commercial station to take over for the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The International Space Station<\/a> is getting on in years, and at some point in the next decade we\u2019re going to learn the date of its shutdown. But what comes next? A new company called Axiom Space has a plan to launch a commercial space station in the next few years, which would get its start as a module attached to the ISS.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to shrug off a plan from a company you\u2019ve never heard of, but Axiom has some big names on board. For example, it\u2019s led by one Mike Suffredini, who managed NASA\u2019s ISS program for 10 years. The time is fast approaching that we need to come up with a successor to the ISS, and Axiom\u2019s commercial station could be it.<\/p>\n

The plan calls for the core module to be launched around 2020<\/a>. There are two versions of this phase of construction; one in which the 9\u00d75 meter module (known as Module 1) is launched in one piece, and another where it\u2019s sent up in pieces and assembled in orbit. Assembling in space would take longer, but sending it up as a single payload would be expensive and risky. The completed Module 1 will have its own propulsion, so it will fly to the ISS after reaching orbit.<\/p>\n

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The International Space Station is getting on in years, and at some point in the next decade we\u2019re going to learn the date of its shutdown. But what comes next? A new company called Axiom Space has a plan to launch a commercial space station in the next few years, which would get its start [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59276,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33147\/revisions\/59276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}