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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Jed McCaleb, Vast founder and first investor, participated in the $500 million financing round.
Vast has been funded privately to date.
Vast is preparing the full-scale Haven-1 flight article for environmental testing.
Vast uses a vertically integrated manufacturing model that reduced primary structure manufacturing costs by 10x compared to traditional aerospace programs.
Haven-1 is in its final phases of integration at Vast Space’s Long Beach headquarters.
Vast raised $500 million in new funding to advance its space station and habitation roadmap.
Vast raised $500 million to help advance its commercial space stations.
The Qatar Investment Authority, IQT, Mitsui & Co., MUFG, and Nikon Corporation participated in Vast Space’s financing round.
Vast machines its own flight panels, welds its pressure hulls, and develops its own life support systems in-house.
The new funding positions Vast Space to meet the timeline for replacing the International Space Station after its planned retirement in 2030.
Vast aims to support continuous crew operations by 2030.
Vast Space has an open call for research proposals for experiments to fly on its private astronaut mission to the ISS.
The crew on Vast Space’s ISS mission will spend up to 14 days aboard the station.
The Vast Space mission to the ISS is targeting no earlier than summer 2027 and will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying a Dragon spacecraft.
Vast Space is developing the Haven-2 commercial space station as a successor to the ISS.
NASA selected Vast Space for the sixth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
Vast secured $300 million in Series A equity financing and $200 million in debt financing.
Vast successfully launched Haven Demo, a pathfinder for Haven-1, into orbit last November.
Vast won its first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station in February 2026.
Vast signed an agreement with NASA to hold a private astronaut mission on the International Space Station in the current month.