WASHINGTON — NASA is challenging college students to design concepts for inflatable habitat lofts for the next generation of space explorers. The winning concepts may be applied to the exploration ...

When developing new technology, rarely is having it explode a good thing. Unless you’re demonstrating that an inflatable habitat is capable of surviving environments beyond the extremes of space. As ...

Sierra Space has completed a key test of its inflatable space habitat, as the company progresses toward launching and operating a private space station with Blue Origin before the end of the decade.

Sierra Space has conducted a burst test of a full-scale inflatable space habitat. Watch the results in slo-mo! Credit: Sierra ...

Witnessing an explosion involving a carefully constructed piece of space kit doesn’t seem like a good thing, but engineers at Sierra Space was entirely happy to see the LIFE (Large Integrated Flexible ...

With the aging International Space Station (ISS) facing a fiery end about seven years from now, attention has been turning to new designs to replace the orbital outpost. One such company exploring ...

Inflatable space habitats are reportedly the next biggest venture by startup Max Space, hoping to make the Moon and Mars habitable for humanity. Max Space's habitats are reportedly the largest modules ...

Inflatable space habitats are a relatively new concept in space exploration. Although people started thinking about such things ever since the 1960s, when the original space race was at its peak, it ...

Bengaluru-based Akashlabdhi is nearing the launch of India's first inflatable space habitat, AntarikshHAB, after successful ...

Sierra Space will soon launch the Dream Chaser, a reusable lifting-body spaceplane and inflatable space stations. The cargo Dream Chaser is designed to resupply the International Space Station with ...

Sierra Space has completed a key test of its inflatable space habitat, as the company progresses toward launching and operating a private space station with Blue Origin before the end of the decade.