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04.03.2018
Billionaire Robert Bigelow, founder of Bigelow Aerospace and owner of the Budget Suites hotel chain, has announced that reservations can already be made at his inflatable hotel, which, according to the architects, will revolve around the Earth's orbit from 2021.
The price of this issue was not disclosed, however, Bigelow himself claims that this is a modest "seven-digit" or "eight-digit" number, that is, about tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. The armor will be handled by the billionaire's new subsidiary, Space Operations, set up as the operations center of parent Bigelow Aerospace.
Autonomous space stations will be ready for launch as early as 2021. Two 17-meter modules will create a private space station in orbit, which will be twice the size of the ISS. Each module will be able to function both in low Earth orbit, and in outer space or in orbit of the Moon.
It is also planned to lease the space of the station for NASA scientific space laboratories.
Note that the billionaire founded his private space agency Bigelow Aerospace back in 1999 as a research laboratory. In 2016, the company built the first experimental inflatable module, which was successfully attached to the ISS, and is currently undergoing two years of testing in Earth orbit.
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