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The Bigelow Next-Generation Commercial Space Station is a private orbital space station currently under development by Bigelow Aerospace. The space station will be constructed of two BA 330 expandable spacecraft modules as well as a central docking node, propulsion, solar arrays, and attached crew capsules. NASA will be testing a Bigelow inflatable module on the ISS for two years - it is to be launched in 2016. Any independent Bigelow Commercial space station will have to await the development of commercially available human rated orbital spacecraft. The first of these is expected to be the Space X Dragon V2 in 2017.〔http://www.space.com/30277-bigelow-aerospace-private-space-station.html〕 ==History== Early work at Bigelow Aerospace on expandable space habitats, with plans to eventually assemble them into on-orbit space stations, began in the early years after the company was formed in 1999. By 2004, plans made public included assembly of multiple modules "into a manned space facility in low Earth orbit for both and funded research and for space tourism."〔 (Inflatable privately owned orbital facilities ), ''The Space Review'', 2004-07-19, accessed 2010-07-16.〕 Two more formal concepts have since been put forward and made public. By 2005, Bigelow space station plans had been further conceptualized into ''Commercial Space Station Skywalker'', or CSS Skywalker.〔 In mid-2010, Bigelow announced their ''Next-Generation Commercial Space Station''—later named "Space Complex Alpha"〔—with projected launch dates beginning in 2014 and availability for commercial leasing beginning in 2015.〔 , a second Bigelow Commercial Space Station—Space Complex Bravo—was scheduled to begin launches in 2016.〔 (Balloons in Space: A History ), ''Space.com'', 2010-11-12, accessed 2010-11-14.〕 In the event, the initial dates for the Alpha complex were not achieved. In January 2013, the Alpha complex was specified to be an in-space assemblage of exactly two BA-330 modules, with the first module to be launched no earlier than 2016. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bigelow Commercial Space Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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