Aurora Space Station

Short description: Design concept for a commercial space station

Aurora Space StationStation statistics

Crew| Crew: 2
Tourists: 4
Launch| 2021 (conceptual)
Carrier rocket| TBD
Mission status| Cancelled
Length| 13.3 m (44 ft)
Width| 4.3 m (14 ft)
Pressurised volume| 160 m3 (5,700 cu ft)
Typical orbit altitude| 320 km (200 mi)
Orbital period| 90 minutes

The Aurora Space Station was a technology concept for a private commercial space station in low Earth orbit that was announced on 5 March 2018 by Orion Span, a startup aerospace company in California , United States funded by Pear Venture and Berkeley SkyDeck. The concept envisions a capacity of six people: two crew and four tourists.[1][2]

No launch contract has been signed for deployment of the modules nor crewed vehicles,[1][3] and its construction has not started,[3] but its representatives claimed it would be launched in 2021.[1] In March 2021[4] the website announced that they had shut down operations and refunded all deposits.[5]

## Contents

* 1 Overview
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Overview

Frank Bunger, the founder and CEO of Orion Span, stated that the Aurora Station would offer to space tourists a 12-day stay for US$9.5 million.[1][2] He said that the design concept is such that the station would not require extravehicular activities (spacewalks) for assembly and operation. Orion Span plans to design, test and build the station in Houston, Texas .[1] The company has yet to sign a launch contract, but stated that this commercial station would be deployed in low Earth orbit in 2021,[1] and start to receive passengers in 2022.[2] Bunger said that travelers will be required to complete a three-month training program before launch.[2] Guests would be able to free-float, look out windows, practice hydroponics, and play in a 'hologram deck'.[6]

## See also

* Mir
* NewSpace
* Space tourism
* Bigelow Commercial Space Station

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Luxury Space Hotel to Launch in 2021 Mike Wall, Space.com 6 April 2018
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 First luxury hotel in space announced Maureen O'Hare, CNN News 5 April 2018
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Startup announces plans for low-cost commercial space station Jeff Foust, SpaceNews 5 April 2018
4. ↑ "Orion Span Aurora Station". Internet Archive. https://www.orionspan.com/.
5. ↑ "Orion Span". Orion Span. https://www.orionspan.com/. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
6. ↑ This luxury space hotel could be up and running in four years NBC News 5 April 2018

## External links

* Orion Span home web site
* Станция Аврора станет первым космическим отелем класса люкс.

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Space stations and habitats

Current|

* International Space Station (ISS)

Past|

| Soviet Union
and Russia|

* Salyut
* Salyut 1
* DOS-2†
* Salyut 2† ‡
* Cosmos 557†
* Salyut 3‡
* Salyut 4
* Salyut 5‡
* Salyut 6
* Salyut 7
* Mir

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United States|

* OPS 0855°
* Skylab
* Genesis I° and II° (private, Bigelow Aerospace)

China|

* Tiangong program
* Tiangong-1
* Tiangong-2

Canceled|

| Individual projects|

* Manned Orbiting Laboratory
* Skylab B
* Galaxy
* Sundancer
* Almaz commercial
* Tiangong-3
* OPSEK

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Incorporated into ISS|

* Space Station Freedom
* USOS
* Columbus MTFF
* Mir-2
* ROS

In development|

| China|

* Chinese large modular space station

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Private|

* Bigelow Commercial Space Station

International|

* Lunar Gateway

Concepts|

* Aurora Station
* Bernal sphere
* Bishop Ring
* Deep Space Habitat
* Exploration Gateway Platform
* Industrial Space Facility
* McKendree cylinder
* Nautilus-X
* O'Neill cylinder
* Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station
* Rotating wheel
* Wet workshop
* Space habitat
* Stanford torus
* Skylab II (FlexCraft)
* Lunar Orbital Station

Related|

* List of space stations
* List of films featuring space stations
* Space stations and habitats in fiction
* Space Station 3D (2002 documentary)
* A Beautiful Planet (2016 documentary)

Notes: † Never inhabited due to launch or on-orbit failure, ‡ Part of the Almaz military program, ° Never inhabited, lacks docking mechanism.

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Space tourism

Companies|

| Active|

* Bigelow Aerospace
* Blue Origin
* Airbus D&S
* Mojave Aerospace Ventures
* Orbital Technologies
* Orion Span
* PDAS
* Sierra Nevada Corporation
* Space Adventures
* The Spaceship Company
* SpaceX
* #dearMoon project
* Virgin Galactic

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Defunct|

* Armadillo Aerospace
* Golden Spike Company
* RocketShip Tours
* Space Island Group (Space Island Project)
* XCOR Aerospace

Organizations|

* ARCA
* Association of Autonomous Astronauts
* Astronaute Club Européen
* Commercial Spaceflight Federation
* Copenhagen Suborbitals
* Space Frontier Foundation
* Space Tourism Society

Spacecraft|

* Current
* Soyuz
* Future
* Boeing CST-100 Starliner
* Dragon 2
* New Glenn
* New Shepard
* SpaceShipTwo
* Starship

Living in space|

* Commercialization of space
* Space colonization
* Space habitat
* Space medicine
* Space station
* Suborbital spaceplane

Space competitions|

* America's Space Prize
* Ansari X Prize
* Google Lunar X Prize
* Space elevator competitions

Space tourists|

* Dennis Tito
* Mark Shuttleworth
* Gregory Olsen
* Anousheh Ansari
* Charles Simonyi
* Richard Garriott
* Guy Laliberté
* Yusaku Maezawa (planned)

* Tourism on the Moon

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