Vast Space is a private American aerospace company established in 2021, with headquarters in Long Beach, California. It focuses on developing artificial gravity space stations, with the goal of enabling long-term human habitation in space. Vast is currently developing Haven-1, a commercial space station scheduled to launch in 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and Haven-2, a proposed successor to the International Space Station (ISS). Key partners include SpaceX, and they are targeting customers such as NASA, commercial researchers, and private astronauts.
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Haven-1 was announced by Vast in May 2023.
Vast has a goal of launching the single-module Haven-1 station as soon as August 2025.
Vast will use SpaceX’s Starlink constellation to provide broadband connectivity for its Haven-1 station.
Vast grew from about 120 employees at the time it announced Haven-1 to 350 employees.
Vast will use laser terminals supplied by SpaceX on Haven-1.
Vast projects reaching 650 employees by the end of the current year and 800 employees by the time Haven-1 launches.
SpaceX will provide Starlink connectivity to future Vast platforms beyond Haven-1, including Vast’s next space station.
Vast partnered with SpaceX to deploy SpaceX’s first laser connectivity for a space station.
Astrobotic’s CubeRover is designed to traverse multiple kilometers across planetary bodies and accommodate a vast variety of payloads.
Clay Mowry will provide support to Vast Space as it works on its proposed commercial space stations.
Vast Space received an unfunded Space Act Agreement from NASA last year to gain access to agency expertise.
Vast Space plans to launch Haven-1 as soon as the end of next year.
Vast Space plans to use experience from Haven-1 to develop larger space stations for later phases of NASA’s Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development program.
Vast is executing a strategy to build a robust pipeline of international commercial and government customers for Haven-1, the world’s first commercial free-flying space station.
Startical aims to build and launch a satellite platform that will expand surveillance and communication coverage with aircraft, especially over vast oceanic or remote areas without coverage from ground-based air navigation infrastructure systems.
Reticulate Micro streamed live video over a UHF TACSAT radio link on 2024-02-28 with the U.S. Army using Reticulate Micro’s VAST encoder and NanTenna’s UHF TACSAT antenna.
Vast Space will bid on NASA private astronaut missions offered to companies seeking to fly commercial missions to the International Space Station.
Vast Space is developing a human-tended single-module station called Haven-1 that will launch on a Falcon 9.
Vast Space plans to launch Haven-1 at the end of next year.
AnySignal partnered with Vast to develop an advanced space communication system for Vast’s Haven-1 space station.