/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15455386
https://www.vastspace.com/roadmap

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/10/world/spacex-vast-private-space-station-launch-scn/index.html

> “The Dragon team and the team and leadership (at SpaceX) really want to build a Falcon 9-based space station,” said Max Haot, Vast’s president. Haot led the aerospace company Launcher before it was acquired by Vast in February. “So we’re very, very aligned.”

https://www.space.com/vast-space-private-station-spacex-launch-2025

> "Vast is thrilled to embark on this journey of launching the world's first commercial space station, Haven-1, and its first crew, Vast-1," Vast CEO Jed McCaleb said in a press release today. "We are grateful to SpaceX for this exciting partnership that represents the first steps in Vast's long-term vision of launching much larger, artificial gravity space stations in Earth orbit and beyond."

the fact that Vast has a partnership with SpaceX (whatever that means) makes me think people at spacex have at least some confidence in Vast accomplishing something
Vasts roadmap seems pretty good at least at the start, starting with very simple test articles and the first module itself also being very simple