Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has announced plans to launch a commercial space station by the end of the decade.
Blue Origin, his space tourism company, said in promotional material that the station called Orbital Reef will be a “mixed-use business park” in space and will host up to ten people.
“Orbital Reef will be the premier mixed-use space station in low Earth orbit for commerce, research, and tourism by the end of this decade,” according to the company’s website.
Blue Origin will join forces with Sierra Space and Boeing in the endeavour, which is one of several efforts to capitalise on the decommissioning of the International Space Station (ISS) later this decade. Another is the Tiangong project, China’s programme to build a
