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.

An illustration of Vast’s Haven-1 space station docked with a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft in low Earth orbit. (Courtesy of Vast).

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.