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Vast Space, based in California have big ambitions. The company aims to launch Haven-2, a commercial space station, into low-Earth orbit by 2028 that will allow astronauts to remain in space after liftoff. International Space Station (ISS) in 2030. By doing this, he tries to strengthen his muscles of NASA plans to develop commercial low-orbit space stations with partner organizations, but the most ambitious is what Vast Space will eventually launch into space: a station with its own artificial gravity.
“We know that we can live in weightlessness for a year or more, and in difficult conditions. Perhaps, the gravitational force of the Moon or Mars is enough to live comfortably for a lifetime. The only way to find out is to build stations with artificial gravity, which is our long-term goal,” says Max Haot, CEO of Vast.
Vast Space was founded in 2021 by Jed McCaleb, a 49-year-old programmer and businessman who is the founder of eDonkey and Overnet peer-to-peer networks. now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gosh. Vast Space announced the partnership in mid-December SpaceX Carrying out two missions to the ISS will be an important milestone in the company’s launch plan the first space station, Haven-1, later in 2025. The missions, which do not yet have official launch dates, will be part of NASA’s private astronaut missions program, through which the space agency wants to promote the development of the space economy in low Earth orbit.
For Vast, this is part of a long-term business strategy. “It would take 10 to 20 years to build an outpost that artificially mimics gravity, as well as an amount of money that we don’t have right now,” admits Haot. “However, we will launch four people on the (SpaceX) Dragon in 2025 to win the most important contract in the space station market, the replacement of the ISS, with our founder’s resources. The two of them will stay at Haven-1. weeks, then return safely to NASA, demonstrating our prowess against any challenger.”
Room for One More?
What Wide Space is trying to do by showing off its capabilities is to interfere with NASA Commercial Spaces in Low Earth Orbit (CLD) program is a project the space agency launched in 2021 with a $415 million grant to support the development of private low Earth orbit stations.
It was money initially divided into three different projects: an aerospace and defense company from Northrop Grumman, which has since exited the program; a joint venture called Starlab; and Jeff Bezos’ Orbital Reef from Blue Origin. Vast does not have a contract with the US space agency, but it aims to outdo its rivals by showing NASA that it can put a space station in space. The agency will choose which project to support the station in the second half of 2026.
In doing so, Vast is borrowing from SpaceX’s playbook. Vast Space involved not only some of its employees and the design of equipment and vehicles Elon Musk’s company, it also seeks to replicate its approach to the market: to be ready before everyone else by having already qualified and proven technologies and processes in orbit. “We’re behind,” says Haot. “What can we do to win? Our answer will be the launch of Haven-1 in the second half of 2025.”
Haven-1 will have a habitable volume of 45 cubic meters, a docking port, a corridor with expendable resources for the crew’s private living quarters, a laboratory, and a deployable utility table set next to a nearly one-meter-high domed window. On board, about 425 kilometers above Earth’s surface, the station will use Starlink laser links to communicate with satellites in low Earth orbit. Polaris dawn mission in the fall of 2024.
