Vast in developing artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system.
Created: 2022-02-06
Updated: 2025-09-07
Company - Vast
Product/Service
- Classification
- Space Stations & Habitats
- Category
- Commercial Space Station
Commercial Astronaut Services
Space Tourism Activities
- Fields
- Artificial Gravity
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2026
- Vast is collaborating with NASA on technologies and operations required for its microgravity and artificial gravity stations.
- This includes the Haven-1 commercial destination, which will provide a microgravity environment for crew, research, and in-space manufacturing, and the first crewed mission, called Vast-1, to the platform.
- Development activities for larger space station modules will also take place under the Space Act Agreement.
Roadmap as of 2024-07-01
- The Haven-1 Lab, set to launch no earlier than the second half of 2025 on Haven-1, will be a hub for companies, governments, and other entities to collaborate on science, research, and in-space manufacturing.
- In tandem with Vast’s announcement of its Haven-1 Lab, the company also announced Redwire and Yuri as its inaugural partners, representing some of the foremost experts in the development of microgravity payloads.
Vast Unveils Its Final Haven-1 Space Station Design, 2024-10-10.
Vast begins Haven-1 testing and reschedules its launch, 2025-02-06.
- Announced that Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation (JAMSS), Interstellar Lab, and Exobiosphere as the latest payload partners for its Haven-1 Lab.
- The new partners will leverage the microgravity environment of the Haven-1 Lab by installing payloads focused in the areas of advanced materials development, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical development.
- JAMSS will develop a multi-purpose payload facility that accommodates microgravity experiments and small payload modules. These sub-payloads include devices for colloidal photonic crystallization (a process for developing advanced optical materials), interfaces for commercial merchandise items, and many other applications.
- Interstellar Lab’s Eden 1.0 is a next-generation BioCapsule engineered for advanced life science research on orbital stations. A direct spin-off from Interstellar Lab’s food production system NuCLEUS, which won the NASA Deep Space Food Challenge, Eden 1.0 is a fully automated controlled-environment greenhouse with autonomous climate and light and fertigation control. Equipped with several sensors and cameras, Eden 1.0 captures real-time data, allowing Interstellar Lab to perform comparable experiments on the ground. The goal is to measure and understand the impact of microgravity on plant growth, including nutrient dynamics, phenotyping, and genetic adaptation.
- Exobiosphere will install its Orbital High Throughput Drug Screening Device (OHTS) to conduct microgravity experiments that can accelerate cell growth and uncover cellular behaviors that are not observable under Earth’s gravity. Results from OHTS will provide pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare companies with insights to create therapeutics to improve human life on Earth and in space.
Private Astronaut Missions
Vast seeks to bid on future ISS private astronaut missions, SpaceNews, 2024-02-22
- Would bid on the fifth and sixth private astronaut missions, or PAMs, that NASA offers to companies seeking to flying commercial missions to the ISS.
- Haot says Vast wants to reap similar benefits as it prepares for its station. “To be able to leverage the ISS and learn, and work closely with NASA, is really a key part of the transition” from the ISS to commercial stations.
Vast signs agreement with SpaceX for private astronaut missions to the ISS, 2024-12-19.
- Signed a deal with SpaceX for two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station, pending NASA approval.
- “Enabling payload and crewed missions to the ISS is a key part of Vast’s strategy, allowing us to further our collaboration with NASA and global space agencies,” Max Haot, chief executive of Vast, said in a statement. “These missions not only strengthen our expertise in human spaceflight operations and collaboration with NASA but also position Vast as a leading contender to deliver the next-generation successor to the ISS.”
Notes
- The first Haven-1 solar wing has completed its qualification campaign, June 2024.
- Free-Flying Stations, with Jed McCaleb & Max Haot (Vast), 2024-06-04.
- Commercial space stations go international, 2024-07-03.
- Accelerating the LEO Economy via Commercial Space Stations, 2024-07-31.
- Vast signs agreement to test Haven-1 at NASA facility, 2025-04-03.
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