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Inflatable Space Habitat

Expandable structures that deploy in orbit to create living and working space for astronauts
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Inflatable space habitats expand after launch to provide larger interior volumes than rigid structures. Development; prototypes built and tested (BEAM on ISS). Applications: space habitats, stations, deep-space missions. Bigelow Aerospace and others developing systems.

TRL
7/9Operational
Impact
5/5
Investment
5/5
Category
Hardware

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