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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VAST-1 will fly to Haven-1 in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched by a Falcon 9 rocket.
Vast will explore conducting the world’s first spinning artificial gravity experiment on a commercial space station with Haven-1.
Vast plans to develop the 100-meter spinning-stick space station in the 2030s.
Vast-1 is the first human spaceflight mission to Haven-1 and will use a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
Vast had not built any hardware for Haven-1 at the time of the announcement.
Vast is developing prototypes of Haven-1’s structure at its Long Beach, California headquarters.
Vast’s Long Beach headquarters includes an 11,100-square-meter manufacturing facility.
Vast plans to launch a free-flying commercial space station module called Haven-1 as soon as 2025.
Haven-1 is a precursor for larger space stations Vast proposes to develop that would be launched on SpaceX’s Starship.
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’s long-term product roadmap includes a 100-meter-long spinning-stick space station made of modules seven meters in diameter that would host 40 people.
Vast signed a contract with SpaceX on 2023-05-10 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Haven-1 module.
As President of Vast, Max Haot will oversee the Orbiter, E-2, and space station programs as well as engineering, manufacturing, marketing, finance, and facilities teams.
The combined Vast and Launcher team will jointly occupy a 115,000-square-foot Vast headquarters in Long Beach later 2023.
Vast plans to use Launcher’s Orbiter space tug and hosted payload platform to reach orbit 2023 to develop and test on-orbit space station components and subsystems.
As President of Vast, Max Haot will oversee the Orbiter, E-2, and space station programs as well as the company’s engineering, manufacturing, marketing, finance, and facilities teams.
Vast acquired launch services company Launcher on 2023-02-21 for an undisclosed amount.
Jed McCaleb is self-funding Vast through its initial phases of development and intends to keep it self-funded until the company has a station in space and a clear path to revenue.
Vast will use Launcher’s Orbiter space tug and hosted payload platform to reach orbit 2023 to develop and test on-orbit space station components and subsystems.
Vast will continue Launcher’s Orbiter space tug and hosted payload products as well as Launcher’s staged combustion rocket engine, E-2.