Keep creating #SpaceJunk, #Elon! Maybe it's time to send up the #SpaceJanitors, eh?

The #KesslerSyndrome: Crisis in Space Intensifies as Thousands of Satellites Crowd Earth Orbit

by Micah Hanks, May 8, 2025

Excerpt: "Welcome to this week’s installment of The Intelligence Brief… as #SpaceX’s Starlink constellation continues to raise the number of operational satellites in orbit, scientists are raising alarms about the growing threat of #SpaceDebris. In our analysis this week, we’ll be looking at 1) the potential onset of the Kessler Syndrome, 2) how a cascading chain reaction of orbital collisions could jeopardize #satellites, #SpaceStations, and critical infrastructure in space, and 3) what space agencies like NASA and the ESA are doing to mitigate risks through debris removal missions and stricter deorbiting guidelines, amid concerns over whether current efforts will be enough to prevent orbital chaos."

https://thedebrief.org/the-kessler-syndrome-crisis-in-space-intensifies-as-thousands-of-satellites-crowd-earth-orbit/

Exhibit celebrates space station dreams and realities
The dream of having people live and work in space didn’t start with billionaire Jeff Bezos, or even with rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun. Instead, you’d have to look back at least as far as 1869 — a full century before humans walked on the moon.

That’s just one of the fu
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/06/08/exhibit-celebrates-space-station-dreams-and-realities/
#GeekWire #InternationalSpaceStation #MuseumOfFlight #Space #SpaceStations

#Starlab will be launched to orbit in a single flight by #Starship.

#NASA spent more than $100 billion constructing the #ISS and has a $3 billion annual budget for operations and transportation of people and supplies to the station. The agency is likely to fund commercial #SpaceStations at a level of about $1 billion a year https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/by-launching-on-starship-the-starlab-station-can-get-to-orbit-in-one-piece/

Sierra Space is blowing up stuff to prove inflatable habitats are safe - Enlarge / Sierra Space's 300 cubic meter inflatable habitat burst at 77... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1998174 #inflatablemodule #commercialspace #spacestations #sierraspace #space

With budget cuts and an aging station, can NASA learn to love a gap in orbit? - Humans have lived aboard the International Space Station for more than ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1985836 #spacestations #science #space #clds

2023/02/16 Four private #SpaceStations planned

• #AxiomSpace
• #NorthropGrumman
• #VoyagerSpace / #Nanoracks
• #SierraSpace / #BlueOrigin

"It's going to be a small percentage that #NASA is going to be funding these #SpaceStations" so each project needs "to go out and raise #capital to do this." https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/investing-in-space-the-space-station-kingmaker.html

Several other #SpaceNews in this article : #FAA #SpaceX #IntuitiveMachines #CASC #Roscosmos #AerojetRocketdyne #Maxar #VirginOrbit #VirginGalactic #SpaceRyde #Inmarsat #Astranis #SidusSpace #RocketLab #RelativitySpace #AllSpace #Iridium #AerojetRockdyne #JAXA #SpaceCom

Pictures : "Langley engineers check out the interior of the #inflatable 24-foot #SpaceStation in 1962.", #Bigelow #SpaceStation, #CrewDragon approaches #ISS Kibo laboratory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langley_engineers_inside_inflatable_a_24-foot_spacestation_mock-up.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bigelow_Aerospace_facilities.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crew-2_dragon_approach.jpg

#CNN May 2022 #OrbitalAssembly is aiming to launch two #SpaceStations with #tourist accommodation: #VoyagerStation is now scheduled to accommodate 400 people and to open in 2027, while new concept Pioneer Station, housing 28 people, could be operational in 2025. There will be "comforts" of artificial #gravity, like showers , the ability to eat and drink sitting down https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/space-hotel-orbital-assembly-scn/index.html

#SpaceStations in #LowEarthOrbit
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230107.html