Axiom's Timeline For The First Commercial Space Station

As we get closer to the scheduled launch of Axiom's first station segment in 2025, we are learning more about the exact plan for this commercial LEO destination. While Axiom gets the significant benefit of attaching to the International Space Station initially, they still have to leave before its retired. This puts somewhat of a deadline on the modules that are sent up and the order they attach to the station.
As of right now, the plan is still to send at least four segments up to the station before 2030. These segments for the most part are all similar with the exception of interior outfitting and operational capabilities. With only so many segments, Axiom is working to ensure the station can be properly powered and support multiple astronauts for long periods of time.
This is much easier said than done and when combined with the ISS connection, requires Axiom to stay on track in the coming years. Here I will go more in-depth into the design of this station and its initial segments, the significance of the ISS connection, what to expect in the coming months, and more.
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Credit:
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NASA - / @nasa
Axiom Space - / @axiomspace
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Axiom Station Layout
3:54 - ISS Connection

[@zmblion]

I wish Bigalow didnt go bust in just a few launches could have been a huge space station

[@nisenobody8273]

Well... we still have the LIFE modules of Sierra Space

[@ARWest-bp4yb]

This is exciting stuff, the commercial sector can take over for ISS and do it more efficiently and for far less cost.👍👍

[@regolith1350]

Somewhere inside Axiom, there must be at least a draft design for an 8-meter diameter space station module for when Starship becomes operational. After half a century, we could finally get back to a Skylab-sized volume.

[@Jayc5001]

Really good update

[@MAM80233]

Thank You! Good Content!

[@Nturner822]

Great update! Can’t help but feel these endeavours will be blow away by starship. The speed of construction, price/reliability, and sheer capacity will allow for insanely big space habitats

[@dissaid]

Thanks Man...😎

[@ChrisNZ2]

Seems like a good opportunity to keep some of the 'useful' bits from the ISS when it is decommissioned. I'm thinking of the newest solar panels, the canadarm and whatever could be used for extra storage space, even if the sections original function is already replaced by a new section?

[@99721]

I learned to say it "ee-cliss" at space camp in like 1998. Environmental Control Life Support Systems

[@Dcassimatis]

The truss segment and other hardware are still very much in working order,... ISS should not be deorbited adding to the trans oceanic junkpile but salvaged and repurposed in orbit.

[@FizzleFX]

"A huge window". You know why they don't have windows in space, right? biggest you got are atm on the ISS and hidden underneath steel covers

[@kspkreations3342]

Correct! They don’t have them yet. That doesn’t mean they can’t happen - New Shepherd reaches about equivalent pressures during flight with larger windows than Axiom is planning to have (I think.) Just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it can’t happen.

[@GreenCappuccino]

2:31 just realized that the solar panel design on the station are ROSAs

[@anjanchakraborty9939]

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[@MrEd2291]

What is the launch vehicle? That might prove to be a bottleneck no matter who they choose.

[@aldunlop4622]

Falcon Heavy maybe?

[@kspkreations3342]

It’s going to be Falcon 9. I can’t imagine that any of these modules are greater than 22 tons, or that these modules will be too wide for Falcon 9. The Power Tower will probably be a Falcon Heavy 3R with the extended fairing.