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It's also interesting we go from an international space station to something that seems to be solely driven by US companies. I wonder what the other agencies will go for, and whether they still will be involved.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada). As the largest space station ever constructed, it primarily serves as a platform for conducting scientific experiments in microgravity and studying the space environment.
From Wikipedia.
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Good question. There's a lot of chatter in the last few years about commercial space ventures. Maybe this is the start.
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I think the idea is both.
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That's interesting. Is it being called a commercial space station because private companies are launching it? Or will it actually be a revenue generating enterprise?