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Launch Date
2/29/1976
Launch Site
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Launch Vehicle
N-1 (Thor Family)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Nexus’s proprietary wallet hardware as an ISS resupply Mission-22 payload launched from Kennedy Space Center LC-39A on 3 June 2021 at 1:29 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Axiom Space previously has a deal with SpaceX for the Ax-1 mission to the ISS launching in early 2022.
On May 20, 2021, GITAI and Nanoracks succeeded in passing the final safety review (Phase 3) and received official authorization by NASA to launch to the ISS.
Airbus’ ISS Bartolomeo platform provides broad-scale payload hosting capability with end-to-end payload services, transportation, astronaut crew time, and other ISS resources.
The consortium declined to provide a total cost for Orbital Reef, though the project’s estimated cost was characterized as at least an order of magnitude less than the ISS’s estimated $100,000,000,000 price tag.
NASA aims to have at least one commercial space station in service by 2028 to enable a two-year transition before retiring the ISS.
NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX completed a flight readiness review for the Ax-1 mission to the ISS on 2022-03-25.
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science, prefers previously used SpaceX boosters over totally new ones for most science applications following the 2022-04-08 Ax-1 mission to the ISS.
SpaceX launched Dragon and the Ax-1 crew to the ISS on Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A on Friday, 2022-04-08.
GITAI is actively developing space robotics by applying technologies obtained from its successful technical demonstration in the ISS and planning an extra-vehicular technical demonstration outside the ISS in 2023.
On 2022-07-12 Dmitry Rogozin planned to instruct cosmonauts on the ISS to stop using the European robotic arm on the Nauka module in retaliation for the European Space Agency terminating cooperation with Roscosmos on the ExoMars mission.
Joel Montalbano is the NASA ISS program manager and affirmed that NASA plans to operate the ISS through 2030.
Roscosmos has previously discussed establishing a national space station and has been reluctant to commit to an ISS extension beyond 2024 while not taking formal steps to end its participation in the ISS partnership.
Redwire sold its first space-optimized product, a space-grown optical crystal manufactured on the company’s Industrial Crystallization Facility that launched to the ISS in 2021.
Axiom Station is currently being constructed with its first section planned for launch in late 2024 ahead of the ISS decommissioning in 2031.
Axiom Space plans to launch its first commercial module to be installed on the ISS in late 2025 following a rebaseline of its schedule.
The omnibus provides $4,250,000,000 for space operations, including $224,300,000 for NASA's Commercial LEO Development effort and $10,000,000 for technical activities for a future ISS deorbiting vehicle competition.
NASA planned to spend less than $10,000,000 on CERISS in 2023 and expected CERISS funding to grow to about $25,000,000 by 2028, enabling scientist flights to the ISS as soon as 2026.
A Dragon capsule launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 transported DanteSat to the ISS in November 2022.
SpaceX-28 is a cargo Dragon mission currently scheduled to launch on 2024-06-03 and remain at the ISS for about a month.