Details of the StarLab Commercial Space Station offered in Marbella
Ulrich Kuebler, Sales Director Space Exploration of Airbus, participated today in the international summit SUTUS 2023 (Space & Underwater Tourism Universal Summit), where he offered for the first time all the details of the Commercial Space Station 'StarLab', which will be developed together with the American Voyager Space.Kuebler explained that this was the time for Airbus to consider this great challenge for humanity, "since the current ISS will become obobsoleteete very soon and we will have to turn the page."
StarLab will be a safe, strategic and sustainable habitation point, so that we can go to the Moon or reach Mars, in a more efficient way.
"NASA is currently looking for a new model to develop space technology, with the collaboration - financed - of the private sector," he said. And StarLab is a good example of this.
"This is a new concept of space station: it is an autonomous platform, eight meters in diameter and three floors. They are two-thirds of the volume of the current ISS," Kuebler detailed.
"The idea is that there could be an entire fleet of space stations" in the future and that they "be mass-produced."
The 'Space Station' of the Oceans
Gary Rosewell, Director of Partnerships and future 'aquanaut' - or deep-sea astronaut - of Proteus Ocean Group, has presented the latest advances in PROTEUS™.
A large next-generation global collaborative science platform, which will feature a data center, private suites, laboratories, an underwater greenhouse and a video production facility for live broadcasts of scientific research, similar to that of the space station of the POT.
It is a project that will begin to become a reality by 2027.
"We only know 5% of the oceans and it's incredible that we haven't explored it more," laments Rossewell.
In SUTUS by Les Roches, space and oceans come together, and that is precisely what Proteus Ocean Group has highlighted, assuming both concepts.
"Underwater training is currently used to prepare people who are going to travel to space, as well as to develop new technologies."
"We are thinking of housing 10 aquanauts - or underwater astronauts - in PROTEUS™ and being able to reach a depth of 150 meters" to carry out research, according to Gary Rossewell.
Regarding the fatal outcome of the Titan minisubmarine, Roswell also had words: "Luckily, from an investment point of view, our company has not suffered negative consequences."
PROTEUS™, named after the Sea King from Greek mythology, will be submerged in the Caribbean waters of Curacao at 20-25 meters deep, where scientists and tourists will be able to begin visiting it in 2027.
It has been designed by the eldest grandson of the famous commander Cousteau, Fabien Cousteau, who will be one of the virtual speakers on the third day of SUTUS 23, next Thursday, September 28.
Other major space projects
Bernard Foing, Leader of ILEWG-EuroMonMars, and former chief scientist of the European Space Agency (ESA), was also a speaker at the opening day of SUTUS by Les Roches.
Foing is one of the brains behind a fascinating space project: "25 years ago we had a vision from the different space agencies, scientists and the educational community, to create the 'Moon Village' project. It is the first human settlement in the Moon".
On the other hand, José María Ortega-Hernández, from Green Moon Project, has stated that his project is designed to "create encapsulated greenhouses that produce oxygen on the Moon and in space stations."
Likewise, he assures that they are working with fast-growing and protein-rich foods, such as lettuce or potatoes, to be able to grow crops beyond the Earth.
Posted on September 29, 2023