Amazon Founder Jeff Bezness Blue Origin together with Sierra Space by 2025-2030 will build their commercial space station at a low near-earth orbit, reported on the project website.
The station will be called “Orbital Reef” (Orbital Reef) and will be a “business park of mixed use in space” for researchers, media, cosmic tourists, businessmen and other people. The new project of the founder Amazon will retain the “Heritage of the ISS”, while adding innovative developments from the sphere of microgravity in it.
“For more than sixty years, NASA and other space agencies have developed orbital space flights and cosmic housing, preparing us for commercial business. It will be launched in this decade,” said the Senior Vice-President of the Blue Origin Brent Sherwood.
It is noted that the station is equipped with the necessary residential, scientific and multifunctional modules, and also supply techniques. Their number will increase as the market increases. On the “orbital reef” will be able to live and work “for the benefit of the land” to ten people.
“as a former astronaut, I waited for a moment when work and life in space will be available to more people all over the world. This moment has come,” the former Astronaut NASA and the President of Sierra Space Janet Cavantei.
July 20 Jeff Bezos made a 10-minute flight into space on the New Shepard ship from Blue Origin. Together with him on board were Brother Mark, 82-year-old former flyer Walle Funk and 18-year-old graduate of School Oliver Denim. The ship rose to a height of 107 kilometers above the ground.