Aryabhata Mission

Voyager will support on-orbit execution and data return for ISS missions.

Under the earlier Johnson Space Center services contract, Voyager conducted waste deployment operations using the Bishop Airlock on the ISS.

Voyager will manage interfaces between payload providers and NASA and ensure that hardware and experiments meet safety and certification requirements for ISS missions.

The multi-year contract framework gives Voyager a predictable channel for recurring mission management work while giving NASA flexibility to align task orders with evolving ISS needs.

The deorbit vehicle built by SpaceX is intended to enable a precise re-entry of the ISS over the Pacific Ocean far from land and people.

NASA's ISS program manager, Kirk Shireman, warned that the transition to commercial crew vehicles may disrupt International Space Station operations.

NASA commercial LEO program management and ISS program management considered integrating Ax-1 activities into the station schedule to be a complex task involving over 1,000 items.

The report indicates there may not explicitly be a national laboratory in LEO once the ISS is retired and that the National Laboratory nomenclature may be removed from legislation or the intent of a National Laboratory may transition to a new model lacking a government-owned platform.

The agreements with Axiom Space, Blue Origin, and Voyager Space are part of NASA’s strategy to support development of commercial space stations intended to be in operation by late this decade to support a transition from the ISS.

Equipment for experiments is sent to the ISS on resupply flights, and operations are monitored from CADMOS's control centre.

Starlab’s AI-enabled commercial space station aims for a seamless transition of microgravity science and research with the retirement of the International Space Station (ISS).

Space Entry plans to develop robotics operation utilization services for a private space station after the International Space Station (ISS) retires.

NASA's chief health and medical officer, J.D. Polk, stated that minor medical issues have occurred on the ISS in the past, such as toothaches and earaches.

Voyager Technologies anticipates adding three payload missions during the next quarter to support short-term demand and ongoing ISS operations.

NASA Inspector General Paul Martin expressed skepticism about the business case for commercialization of the ISS.

CASIS estimated it would use 92 percent of the commercial facilities it has access to on the ISS, such as experiment platforms, in the first half of 2019.

NASA intends to use greater commercialization of the ISS to help support development of commercial LEO facilities and eventually transition away from the ISS.

NASA is soliciting proposals for additional studies of concepts intended to lead to sustainable demand for LEO facilities, including specific research areas or research facilities that could be added to the ISS.

Bigelow Space Operations paid substantial sums as deposits and reservation fees to SpaceX in September 2018 for four Crew Dragon missions to the ISS.

CASIS has operated the portion of ISS facilities designated a national laboratory since 2011.