On its next trip to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX will be carrying an inflatable space habitat built by Bigelow Aerospace.The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will be ...

A 1/3 scale prototype of Sierra Space's LIFE inflatable habitat was run through an Accelerated Systematic Creep Test within a ...

Lockheed Martin recently exploded a sub-scale inflatable space habitat module during a successful burst test at the company's Colorado facility.

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 tested an inflatable habitat prototype fitted with a metallic window sub-structure. Credit: Sierra Space ...

Sierra Space is burst testing its LIFE habitat that aims to create an inflatable live and work campus for scientists faster than the International Space Station was built.

The Large Inflatable Fabric Environment, or LIFE, habitat can start out compact enough to fit inside an 18-foot (5.4 meters) rocket fairing but then expand to 27 feet in diameter and 27 feet long ...

Sierra Space announced on Monday the successful explosion of its inflatable habitat unit, stating that the test exceeded NASA’s requirements. The Colorado-based commercial space company stated ...

NASA has signed a $17.8 million contract with Bigelow Aerospace, a firm based near Las Vegas, to build an inflatable habitat that could be added to the space station by 2015.

Bigelow's design centered on a 330-cubic-meter inflatable habitat, while Sierra Space's design is slightly smaller in volume. Buckley said he couldn't state definitively whether the LIFE burst ...

Just like some of the other test articles before it, LIFE 10 is not a full-blown habitat, but a one-third version of it with an internal volume similar to that of a 10-foot truck.

The company's inflatable habitat concept is being developed as a part of NASA's NextSTEP program, which aims to advance technologies that enable prolonged human spaceflight beyond low Earth orbit ...