Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has just announced its plans for a new private space station that is dubbed “Orbital Reef.” The new space business park is set to be constructed later this decade.
The company unveiled its plans earlier this week and stated that the new private space station will be built in partnership with multiple other space companies and is expected to be deployed sometime between the year 2025 and 2030. According to Blue Origin, the new Orbital Reef station will have a space capable of housing up to 10 people as a “mixed use business park” in space and will offer “exotic hospitality” for tourists brave enough to venture into space.
Notably, Orbital Reed is designed to offer a habitable volume which is comparable to the International Space Station. The company also added that its primary partner for the station is Sierra Space and other major names like Boeing, Redwire Space, and Genesis Engineering. Redwire executive VP Mike Gold told CNBC, “We’re just beginning to understand the tremendous implications that microgravity research, development and manufacturing can mean, for not only for exploring the universe and making discoveries but improving life on Earth.”
Sierra Space will be responsible for the LIFE habitat ((Large Integrated Flexible Environment; essentially an inflatable space station module) while Blue Origin will provide the space station’s “utility systems” and “core modules.” Redwire Space, on the other hand, will run the station’s payload operations and build deployable structures as well.
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