SpaceX’s Starship Selected to Launch Starlab Space Station
The free-flying commercial space station will permanently host four crewmembers and is scheduled to launch before the International Space Station's decommissioning.
Starlab planners say the commercial space station will serve a global customer base of space agencies, researchers, and companies, ensuring a continued human presence in low-Earth orbit. [Courtesy: Starlab]
Key Takeaways:
SpaceX's Starship rocket has been selected to launch Starlab, the commercial space station venture by Voyager Space and Airbus.
Starship's immense size and power enable it to launch the entire Starlab station in a single mission, a key factor in its selection.
Starlab is designed to be a continuously crewed, free-flying space station, ensuring a human presence and microgravity research in low-Earth orbit after the ISS decommissioning.
SpaceX’s Starship rocket has been selected to launch Starlab, the commercial space station venture between Voyager Space and Airbus.
Standing nearly 400 feet tall, Starship is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, with two reusable components, the Super Heavy Booster and Starship spacecraft.
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