I'd like to get excited by the announcement but there's no mention of funding.I believe Bigelow are self-funding construction and launch(?) of a BA330, but I can't imagine them sending it to the moon without some external funding/customer?
Robert Bigelow @RobertTBigelow 59s59 seconds agoRe. Lunar Depot: Capital has been flowing from both companies and will continue.
Robert Bigelow @RobertTBigelow 47s47 seconds agoNASA & this country will need to have investment also to pay for the benefits.
Could we get a kilo of whatever ULA/Bigelow are smoking?
LLO isn't stable... right? So er, what?
I would not spend too much time thinking about Bigelow. It is the hobby of a rich guy with no aerospace experience. Employee turnover is very high.
“The B330 would launch to Low Earth Orbit on a Vulcan 562 configuration rocket, the only commercial launch vehicle in development today with sufficient performance and a large enough payload fairing to carry the habitat.”This is just blatantly false.
Here’s how a Las Vegas millionaire plans to build an orbiting space station for the moonBy Christian Davenport October 17 at 2:21 PM
Assuming SpaceX BFR is flying by the the NET 2022 lunch of 2-3 Vulcan rockets (expendable), plus an Orion/SLS (expendable) plus multiple Falcon 9/Dragons (partially reusable) why not do it in two launches of the BFR (fully reusable)?