Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station

The Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station is a proposed

As initially proposed in 2010, the station was to consist of a single module of approximately 3 metres (9.8 ft) diameter with a usable volume of about 20 m³ (710 cu ft).[1]

As of November 2010^[update], the company was "looking to launch in the next five years or so," ... "in 2015 or 2016."^{[1][needs update]}

At that time, several customers were "under contract from the commercial space industry and the scientific community interested in areas such as medical research, protein crystallization, and materials processing, as well as from the geographic imaging and remote-sensing industry. Media projects have also been proposed [as have] tourism."^[1]

As of April 2013, Orbital Technologies appointed Stiphan Beher as Chief Operating Officer, taking the firm in a global direction, joining CEO Sergey Kostenko, a former Cosmonaut; and Sergey Chernikov, former Deputy Head of Manned Space Missions for the Russian Space Agency. Orbital Technologies was co-founded by Eric Anderson, Chairman of Space Adventures.

Financial sponsors

As of 2010^[update], the station was receiving support from the

Servicing

The initial 2010 plan indicated that the station would be "serviced by Russian

• Bigelow Commercial Space Station – Private space station designed by Bigelow Aerospace
• International Space Station – Inhabitated space station in low Earth orbit
• Mir – Soviet/Russian space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001
• Salyut programme – Soviet space station programme

References

External links

• Orbital Technologies website, Commercial Space Station section