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Haven Demo: The Road to Haven-1

Vast is the only operational commercial space station company to have flown and operated its own spacecraft in orbit, validating key technologies for the world's first commercial station. vastspace.com/haven-demo

Haven-1’s composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs) are being integrated onto the flight vehicle in our Long Beach headquarters clean room. They store our propellant (nitrous oxide, ethane) and life support (oxygen, nitrox) consumables.

Our Space Medicine team takes a systems-level approach to crew health, from vehicle design to training.

It’s how we’re preparing for Vast-PAM-1, NASA’s sixth awarded private astronaut mission, and Haven-1, targeted to be the world’s first commercial space station. vast.news/4yPJLco

Hull 3, a Haven-1 qualification primary structure, is complete. We manufactured, inspected, and proof tested it in-house in Long Beach in five months, four months faster than Hull 2, the flight structure. Hull 4 is next, allowing us to further refine our process.

Haven-1’s 15 composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs) hold thruster propellant, breathing oxygen, and cabin pressure gas. The orange patches on the propellant tanks are Kapton heaters for in-orbit mass gauging and deorbit. Next up: integration on Haven-1.