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World’s First Commercial Space Station Eyes 2027 Launch

The California-based company Vast successfully flew an unmanned demo spacecraft in orbit at the end of 2025.
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World’s First Commercial Space Station Eyes 2027 Launch
An illustration of Vast’s Haven-1 space station docked with a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft in low Earth orbit. (Courtesy of Vast).
T.J. Muscaro
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The world could have its first commercial space station operating in low Earth orbit as early as 2027.

Vast, a commercial space station company based in Long Beach, California—one of several private spacefaring companies working to provide NASA with a replacement to the aging International Space Station—released an update on the construction of its Haven-1 module on Jan. 20.

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T.J. Muscaro
T.J. Muscaro
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T.J. Muscaro is an award-winning reporter and NASA Correspondent for The Epoch Times, covering the Artemis program, Space Force, and other public and private ambitions within the growing space industry. Based in Tampa, Florida, he also covers stories of extreme weather and disaster relief, as well as various matters of national and international politics.