VAST

Vast in developing artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system.

Created: 2022-02-06

Updated: 2024-07-10

Company - VAST

Founded
Country: 2021; USA

Funding: Yes, ?

Website: https://www.vast.inc/

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Product/Service

Classification: Space Stations & Habitats

Category: Commercial Space Station
Commercial Astronaut Services
Space Tourism Activities

Fields: Artificial Gravity

Status: Development

First launch: 2025

Vast is developing artificial-gravity space stations to enable scalable solutions for human productivity in space. Prolonged exposure to zero-gravity results in harmful side effects such as muscle atrophy, bone loss, and even brain damage. Today’s astronauts must limit their visits to space to reduce the damaging toll on their bodies. Artificial gravity provides a healthier environment for long-term stays in space. With a large spinning structure, the resulting centrifugal force creates a gravity-like pull.

We kind of want to stay just under the Van Allen belt. We want it high enough where the orbit’s not going to decay, but we want to be protected by the Van Allen belt so it’s not exposed to a lot of radiation.

Successful hot fire of Vast's first development hardware! A 150 Newton Gaseous Methane / Gaseous Ox Thruster. Our team went from concept to 3D printed Inconel thruster in just a few months.

Launch the world’s first commercial space station, called Haven-1. Scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to low-Earth orbit no earlier than August 2025, Haven-1 will initially act as an independent crewed space station prior to being connected as a module to a larger Vast space station currently in development. The mission will be quickly followed by Vast-1, the first human spaceflight mission to Haven-1 on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. The vehicle and its four-person crew will dock with Haven-1 for up to 30 days while orbiting Earth. Vast also secured an option with SpaceX for an additional human spaceflight mission to Haven-1.

"NASA will partner with seven U.S. companies to meet future commercial and government needs, ultimately benefitting human spaceflight and the U.S. commercial low Earth orbit economy. Through unfunded Space Act Agreements, the second Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities-2 initiative (CCSC-2) is designed to advance commercial space-related efforts through NASA contributions of technical expertise, assessments, lessons learned, technologies, and data.

Vast’s Haven-1 to be World’s First Commercial Space Station Connected by SpaceX Starlink, 2024-04-09.

Roadmap as of 2024-07-01

Vast seeks to bid on future ISS private astronaut missions, SpaceNews, 2024-02-22

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News, Research, Projects and Patents

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