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Launcher: Falcon 9 Full Thrust
Spaceport: KSC LC-40
Landing: KSC Landing Zone 1
Launch: NET March 1, 2016
Window: TBD
Pressurized: logistics
Unpressurized: Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM)
Webcasts:
YouTube SpaceXChannel (Live Event appears day of launch)
Livestream SpaceX
BEAM is a space worthiness test for Bigelow Aerospace's expandable space habitat technology. Their habs can be as small as BEAM or as large as the 2,200 m^3 Olympus which has over 2 times the internal volume of the International Space Station. This tech can also be used for interplanetary spaceship habitation modules and for surface habitats on the Moon, Mars, Ceres or ?? They are both highly impact and radiation resistant
BEAM
Bigelow Olympus
Spaceport: KSC LC-40
Landing: KSC Landing Zone 1
Launch: NET March 1, 2016
Window: TBD
Pressurized: logistics
Unpressurized: Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM)
Webcasts:
YouTube SpaceXChannel (Live Event appears day of launch)
Livestream SpaceX
BEAM is a space worthiness test for Bigelow Aerospace's expandable space habitat technology. Their habs can be as small as BEAM or as large as the 2,200 m^3 Olympus which has over 2 times the internal volume of the International Space Station. This tech can also be used for interplanetary spaceship habitation modules and for surface habitats on the Moon, Mars, Ceres or ?? They are both highly impact and radiation resistant
BEAM
Bigelow Olympus