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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The companies selected for CCSC-2 are Blue Origin of Kent, Washington; Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Dulles, Virginia; Sierra Space Corporation of Broomfield, Colorado; Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California; Special Aerospace Services of Boulder, Colorado; ThinkOrbital Inc. of Lafayette, Colorado; and Vast Space LLC of Long Beach, California.
Development activities for larger space station modules will take place under Vast’s Space Act Agreement with NASA.
Vast is collaborating with NASA on technologies and operations required for microgravity and artificial gravity stations, including the Haven-1 commercial destination and the first crewed mission called Vast-1.
Development activities for larger space station modules by Vast Space will take place under the CCSC-2 Space Act Agreement.
Vast Space LLC of Long Beach, California is collaborating with NASA on technologies and operations required for microgravity and artificial gravity stations, including the Haven-1 commercial destination and the first crewed mission to that platform, Vast-1.
Vast-1 is the first crewed mission to Haven-1 and will dock with Haven-1 for 30 days while orbiting the Earth using a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
Vast selected Impulse Space to provide the Haven-1 space station propulsion system.
Impulse Space will work with Vast to integrate the propulsion system as a key subsystem of Haven-1.
Vast selected Impulse Space to provide the Haven-1 space station propulsion system.
Vast partnered with multiple subsystem suppliers to increase the likelihood of meeting its Haven-1 launch timeline.
Vast received a CCSC-2 agreement to support its plans, announced in May, for the Haven-1 module and crewed missions to that module.
Vast selected Impulse Space to provide the propulsion system for the Haven-1 space station.
Vast’s Haven-1 is a single-module space station designed to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and support visits by four-person crews aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for up to 30 days at a time.
Jed McCaleb has an estimated net worth of $2,400,000,000 and committed in a 2023-05-24 court filing to provide up to $300,000,000 for Vast, and he intends to fund at least the initial phases of Vast’s operations privately.
Vast acquired Launcher, a small launch vehicle company, in February 2023 to use its technology on future Vast space stations.
Vast is a startup funded by cryptocurrency billionaire Jed McCaleb that revealed plans in September 2022 to build large spinning space stations capable of generating artificial gravity.
Launcher discontinued plans to build a launch vehicle after its acquisition by Vast but will continue work on the E-2 rocket engine and plans to offer the engine to other customers.
Launcher, a launch vehicle company acquired by Vast in February, bid $2,700,000 for Virgin Orbit’s lease on a test site in Mojave, California along with machinery, equipment, and inventory there.
Vast’s long-term goal is to develop a 100-meter-long multi-module spinning artificial gravity space station launched by SpaceX’s Starship transportation system.
Vast-1 is the first human spaceflight mission to Haven-1 and will use a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.