No matter what materials one uses to make them, inflatable everything has a tendency to eventually burst. While that may be fun when it comes to party balloons, it's not something to be desired for a ...

Sierra Space, a leading, pureplay commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, announced today that the company’s LIFE™ habitat (Large Integrated ...

Following a successful inflatable habitat burst test in December 2022, Lockheed Martin conducted another subscale burst test on June 14 in Colorado—and like the first time, it went off with a bang!

Witnessing an explosion involving a carefully constructed piece of space kit doesn’t seem like a good thing, but engineers at Sierra Space was entirely happy to see the LIFE (Large Integrated Flexible ...

The few space stations humanity deployed into Earth orbit over the past few decades have all been made from the ground up as full-scale structures. That means their elements have been transported in ...

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NASA will pay Bigelow Aerospace $17.8 million to test this subscale inflatable habitat module at the International Space Station, using instruments and station crewmembers to study whether the ...

Representatives with Bigelow Aerospace plan to build bases on the moon. Representatives with Bigelow Aerospace plan to build bases on the moon. Representatives with Bigelow Aerospace plan to build ...

For its first act, Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser, the world’s first winged commercial space plane, is targeting a September launch to ferry cargo to the ISS as part of the company’s $3 billion contract ...

The notion of humans inhabiting the Moon has long been relegated to science fiction, but recent scientific breakthroughs indicate that it is not far-fetched to think that it will become a reality in ...