Sierra Space Advances its Revolutionary Commercial Space Station Technology
Sierra Space , a leading commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by successfully designing, manufacturing, assembling and testing its first full-scale, expandable space station structure, alongside exclusive softgoods technology partner ILC Dover.
- Sierra Space , a leading commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by successfully designing, manufacturing, assembling and testing its first full-scale, expandable space station structure, alongside exclusive softgoods technology partner ILC Dover.
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The first full-scale structural test milestone for Sierra Space's expandable space station technology occurred at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on Dec. 12. - (Photo: Sierra Space)
Company's first stress test of a full-size, inflatable space station structure
The article was 300 m³ in volume, or 1/3rd the volume of the Intl. - Sierra Space’s inflatable space station technology offers the absolute largest in-space pressured volume, the best unit economics per on-orbit volume and lowest launch and total operating costs,” said Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice.