Future Space Station
Nasa estimates that somewhere between 53 500 and 173 250 pounds of space station will dropping into the ocean.
Future space station. Several companies have drawn up plans or visions for commercial space stations to take more people into the final frontier than ever. The planned launch date of the core module the tianhe is 2. Nasa hopes the future of the space station is commercial the international space station is getting older and nasa is hoping that commercial businesses will take over so that the space agency can.
It s the end of iss but it has spawned a new generation of stations that even now are. But we are still a long way from the realization of large space stations or colonies as envisioned by science fiction writers. Operations will be controlled from the beijing aerospace command and control center in china.
The future of space stations. Nasa has laid out plans for their future utilization of the international space station iss over the next decade including upgrades scheduled to be conducted on the outpost in the near term its. The international space station will continue to serve as the world s leading laboratory where researchers can conduct cutting edge research and technology development to enable human and robotic exploration of the moon and mars.
The planned chinese space station will be roughly one fifth the mass of the international space station and about the size of the decommissioned russian mir space station. This future science station which will effectively replace the international space station when it reaches retirement age in the 2020s will be a fraction of the size but carry astronauts hundreds. We are just beginning the development of space stations.
There are a number of options some actually being developed some no more than concept images that may represent the future of living in space. The future of the space station may be in private hands. The chinese station is expected to have a mass between 80 and 100 tonnes.
Bigelow aerospace is one of the major companies.