By Ashley Young-
A hotel named Voyager Class space station will be the world’s first space hotel and will be able to accommodate 400 people.
The unique hotel will incredibly have its own bars, cinema, restaurants and spa. Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), the company building the Voyager, said construction will begin in 2025 with the intention of it being operational by 2027.
OAC is a company committed on the colonisation of space.
It is developed by the Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), the Voyager Station could be operational as early as 2027, with the infrastructure built in orbit around the Earth.
The space station will be a large circle and rotate to generate artificial gravity that will be set at a similar level to the gravity found on the surface of the Moon.
It will feature a series of pods attached to the outside of the rotating ring and some of these pods could be sold to the likes of NASA and ESA for space research.
The precise cost to build the space station, or the cost of spending a night in the hotel have been revealed, although OAC say build costs are getting cheaper thanks to reusable launch vehicles like the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the future Starship.
However, the average cost of launching material to space has been about $8,000 per kg for a long time, but the reusable nature of the Falcon 9 saw this come down to $2,000/kg and SpaceX predicts Starship will bring it to a few hundred dollars.
Its website says the station is described as ‘a rotating space station designed to produce varying levels of artificial gravity by increasing or decreasing the rate of rotation.’
‘The station will be designed from the start to accommodate both national space agencies conducting low gravity research and space tourists who want to experience life on a large space station with the comfort of low gravity and the feel of a nice hotel’, it further explains.
There will be an inner and outer ring; the inner one will be a docking hub while the outer one will be ‘the backbone of the station and provide mounting for habitable modules, solar panels, radiators, and a rail transport system’ and will be where people will be able to move about the station freely.
There will then be pods attached below the outer ring, each of which will have different purposes. Some may be sold to NASA for research purposes, while others will be used for accommodation, restaurants and bars.
John Blincow founded The Gateway Foundation in 2012. The foundation founded the OAC, and its plans include jumpstarting and sustaining a robust and thriving space construction industry, first with the Voyager Station and The Gateway commercial space station — “important first steps to colonizing space and other
Special series of pods attached to the outside of the rotating ring and some of these pods could be sold to the likes of NASA and ESA for space research
The Gateway Foundation was created to build the first space port. Explaining how it plans on doing this, the website explained, ‘To do that we must first build a few smaller structures. One of the most important projects is the Voyager Class of rotating space stations. This will likely be the first commercial space construction project in history.’