Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station

[Wanderlust]

I am not sure if there is an existing thread for this, I searched but came up dry. There is not enough threads in this science forum anyway, i plan to change that in the near therm

This thread is about the Proposed commercial space station by a Russian commercial outfit. They are touting a price of 800,000 a ticked but to me, in a soyuz 3x 800,000 dosent add up to the cost of a rocket launch. They are estimating 2016, but i believe Bigelow aerospace will have them beat by at least 2 years and with a better station. Still would not mind visiting it at all if i could get the money.

Here are some pretty graphics though!

Original Article

http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/27876/commercial-space-station/

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Good to see somebody i working on problem #1 in my list:

http://trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=5128749&postcount=31

That's cool, but now it's too small!

I really like the interior design shown here, it's very nice, but I really think that it is a bit too small. Not that it is that cramped, but if I stayed at a space hotel I would want to have some company with me, so if they plan to do this for real they better find the money to attach more modules to it and preferably not too late.

I mean, I don't see why would anyone prefer this than paying to go to the ISS. The ISS is spacious, and even if the design isn't that nice, it offers much more interesting hardware up there to explore.

 

[sojourner]

^So, you've not heard of Bigelow Aerospace?

From the article I read on Orbital, the ticket price does not include the ride to the station.

 

[Brolan]

Unless I am missing something it appears the whole thing is nothing more than a docking ring for multiple Soyuz spacecraft? Hardly worthy of being called a space station. It should be cheap enough to build and launch.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

^So, you've not heard of Bigelow Aerospace?

Yeah, a station of inflatable modules sounds much more interesting. That's how you make space in space.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Looks like a transporter to me.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

You aren't supposed to reveal that, it's a secret.

 

[Yminale]

Unless I am missing something it appears the whole thing is nothing more than a docking ring for multiple Soyuz spacecraft? Hardly worthy of being called a space station. It should be cheap enough to build and launch.

Yeah it is a little small. It took only one Proton rocket to put Mir into space.

I guess they are trying to save money by using a smaller launch vehicle.