How will the Bigelow Lunar Station be transported to LEO & on to EML-1?

[docmordrid]

Seen the multi-rotor UAV's they've been testing (ex: Draganfly)?  Same basic control modulation required just scaled up, and they'll be appearing on airships and other aircraft sooner than you think.

[Orbital Debris]

Will the propusion/power buss be sent into orbit with the module or will they be sent separately?

MSNBC reported in 2007 that the propulsion bus & node would be launched separately
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This is no longer true. In current concepts, the node will be integrated with the prop bus.

[docmordrid]

I didn't say the bus and node would be launched separately from each other, just from Sundancer. 

[ChefPat]

Does the recent announcement by SpaceX concerning the F9H make it anymore likely that Bigelow will use SpaceX for their transport? If so, where at CCAFS could SpaceX launch BA-330 modules?
Would it be better to launch a BA-330 to EML-1 from Vandenburg?

[Jason1701]

Does the recent announcement by SpaceX concerning the F9H make it anymore likely that Bigelow will use SpaceX for their transport? If so, where at CCAFS could SpaceX launch BA-330 modules?
Would it be better to launch a BA-330 to EML-1 from Vandenburg?

Bigelow will make use of the cheapest and most reliable transportation no matter who offers it.

SpaceX currently does not have a place at Canaveral to launch F9H. As has been discussed in the other board, SLC-40 would need extensive renovation, probably including a new HIF, to support it. To launch a BA-300 straight to EML-1 would require something far larger than the F9H.

[docmordrid]

F9H is estimated to loft about 32 MT to LEO and 19.5 MT to GTO. A BA-330 is said to weigh 23 MT. Not enough, but that's without Raptor or Bigelow's own hypergolic propulsion bus which is clearly shown in their EML-1 images and from all recent imagery rather large.

One question; is the propulsion bus the same as the refuelable Aft Propulsion System Aerojet & Andrews are developing for Bigelow?