Ventures racing to replace the International Space Station are forging new partnerships that echo the cooperation of the ISS era

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Max Space has unveiled plans to develop inflatable modules that the company believes can be made larger and less expensive than alternatives

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NASA has added milestones and funding to agreements with two companies working on commercial space station concepts using money from a third agreement that ended last year.

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The International Space Station is in the wrong orbit for commercial space stations. Selecting the right orbit is key to building a cost-efficient commercial zone in zero gravity.

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Northrop Grumman will drop plans to develop its own commercial space station and instead assist a competing effort led by Voyager Space, the companies announced Oct. 4.

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WASHINGTON — As Sierra Space continues to prepare for the first flight of its Dream Chaser vehicle, it is outlining long-term ambitions for both that vehicle and space station modules. […]

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For most of NASA’s history, it dealt with only one space station at a time: the space station. A half-century ago, that space station was Skylab, giving the agency its […]

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Orbital Outpost X, a Silicon Valley space technology startup formerly called Space Villages, received a $5 million convertible note from Space Infrastructures Ventures of the Netherlands.

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It is a familiar refrain for the industry: too many companies pursuing too few customers, making it difficult for any company to close its business case and make money. That […]

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ThinkOrbital, a space infrastructure startup, is designing an orbital platform aimed at commercial businesses, military and government agencies that want to manufacture products in orbit or recycle debris.

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Arkisys is inviting U.S. companies with Small Business Innovation Research or Small Business Technology Transfer funding to test payloads or subsystems in low Earth orbit.

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For all the optimism about the development of commercial space stations, the International Astronautical Congress also showed the lingering concern about the business case for such stations, be it for research, tourism or other space agencies.

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Vast Space, a Southern California startup founded by cryptocurrency billionaire Jed McCaleb, plans to establish an artificial-gravity space station in low Earth orbit.

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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.

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