The Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station is a proposed
orbital space
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station intended for commercial clients. The station was initially proposed in 2010 by Orbital Technologies, a
Russia
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n aerospace firm (not to be confused with
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Orbital Sciences Corporation (commonly referred to as Orbital) was an American company specializing in the design, manufacture, and launch of small- and medium- class space and launch vehicle systems for commercial, military and other governmen ...
), who is collaborating to develop the station with
Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia).
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History
As initially proposed in 2010, the station was to consist of a single module of approximately diameter with a usable volume of about .[
, the company was "looking to launch in the next five years or so," ... "in 2015 or 2016."][
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 s have]tourism
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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.
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Financial sponsors
, the station was receiving support from the Russian Federal Space Agency
The State Space Corporation "Roscosmos" (russian: Государственная корпорация по космической деятельности «Роскосмос»), commonly known simply as Roscosmos (russian: Роскосмос) ...
, who was encouraging private participation. It is hoped the station "will attract private investment for the Russian space industry."[In Race for Private Space Stations, It's U.S. Versus Russia]
''Space.com
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'', 2010-11-12, accessed 2010-11-13.
No private financing has yet been announced.
Servicing
The initial 2010 plan indicated that the station would be "serviced by Russian Soyuz Soyuz is a transliteration of the Cyrillic text Союз ( Russian and Ukrainian, 'Union'). It can refer to any union, such as a trade union (''profsoyuz'') or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Сою́з Сове́тских Социалис ...
and Progress
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spacecraft and potentially other commercially available vehicles."[
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See also
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References
External links
Orbital Technologies website, Commercial Space Station section
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Space program of Russia