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https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/could-spacex-turn-starship-into-a-space-station/

> "Adding increased confidence is the company’s plan to self-fund Starship development from its launch and satellite enterprises," McAlister wrote in a section discussing SpaceX's business approach for the Starship space station effort. "The only weaknesses in the proposal were the lack of a schedule to field its new capabilities and involving NASA in its ... milestones. Overall, strengths outbalance weaknesses."

> On technical grounds, NASA said SpaceX's plan has strengths in its use of existing systems, demonstrated technical competence, and low dependence on other companies or organizations. But McAlister wrote that SpaceX's proposal was short on details about the concept and lacked information on technical risks or the schedule for how Starship could be used for crew transportation to low-Earth orbit or as an orbiting space station within the next five to seven years, one of NASA's goals guiding the collaborative commercial space agreements.

>A Houston-based company named Nanoracks is also working on technology that could eventually be applied to converting spent rocket stages into an orbiting space station. Nanoracks has partnered with Maxar and United Launch Alliance on some early-stage technology development in this area. One of the recent milestones was a small-scale demonstration in space last year to prove a robot could cut metal in microgravity, using a sample of material several inches in size that was representative of the tanks of a Centaur upper stage that flies on ULA's Atlas V rocket.

no new info but if you want a rundown of the The Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities (CCSC) program, there it is
also there is a section at the end about using parts of rockets as space stations like the space shuttles external tank