SpaceX prepares to launch the first stainless steel space station! Built by Airbus!!

For the first time, I get a chance to interview Manfred Jaumann, Head of LEO and Suborbital Programmes at Airbus about their amazing new plans for a space station in LEO! And this station will fail without Starship!
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[paulmichaelfreedman]

Nice scoop, Jordan. I am pleasantly surprised by the interview. Congratulations - you're growing as an aerospace reporter.

[philipprovance]

I like this stainless steel model.Because his reasonings were sound and I like the inflatables.They both have great potential and i'm just happy to see them all coming online

[yanis]

Airbus’ dedication to create an ecosystem wherein startups and SMEs can evolve is laudable. Only institutional investors and large corporations will be able to inject the seed capital needed to kickstart a sizeable LEO infrastructure. An exciting time to be alive.

[OldBillOverHill]

Great interview. My family has a long history in spaceflight. My Dad and Granddad worked at Coors Porcelain and they machined high tech ceramics for the Gemini through Space Shuttle programs. My father in law worked at Rocketdyne. Granddad was born in 1902 and lived to see the first shuttle launch. I asked him just before he died what he thought about the space program and his participation in it. He told me he thought it was a waste of money that could have been spent better here on earth but that being said, he was quite candid that his life had spanned going from horse and buggy to Skylab and beyond and he was extremely proud to have participated in it. My mentor in high school was an Electrical Engineer at Martin Marietta and he worked in Waterton canyon but was laid-off after the Saturn Program ended. Me, I'm just a humble retired software test engineer from Lucent Bell Labs.

[Adak]

Starship is the key to all this, and if it could put one of these up, it could put 10 of these up, within a year, daisy chained together. We need to start thinking about much bigger stations that could hold hundreds, maybe thousands of people at a time, and that rotate. It's all about escaping Earth's gravity well. Once you have a station like that, just use Starship to get people & cargo to the station & design transfer ships to take you to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

[friendlyone]

Opening scene: Anyone else first see a Dalik in the opening shot...and only a moment later realized it was a rocket engine?

[philipprovance]

Great show.Great interview.Keep it up thank you

[wesleyclark]

What a phenomenal interview. Thank you immensely for bringing awareness and in depth coverage of what's happening outside of the main headlines

[sohovulture]

On the bleeding edge as ever Mr A. Fascinating stuff and looking forwards to more!

[marvindebot]

This deserves more than 11k views.

To my way of thinking it would be more economical to make Starship itself the station. If it doesn't need to return it can have less tankage and more space inside giving a massive volume to work with. If tiles are fitted the station itself can be deorbited intact (after a refuel in orbit) both in case of problems or simply for a refit. It can even change orbits if required for various missions. The available volume would be many times that of any other proposed station.

[FM-ouwu]

Great interview, I really hope Airbus follow through on this project, there has to be substantial LEO facilities to get the space economy up and running. Inflatable modules are useful in some situations but as Manfred said these are mostly being developed due to limitations in launch vehicles, Airbus must realise that vehicles like Space X's Starship will allow far larger and heavier payloads and they can design Starlab without the constraints that have historically limited orbital stations.

[anguscovoflyer]

by the time 2028 comes around, starship will be a very mature and reliable launch vehicle.

[IllumTheMessage]

Lot of good ideas here. Thanks Angry! Good interview.

[ocker]

Really good episode with Airbus optimism for the Airbus spacestation and their trust in the Starship launch system. It has balls. Recently I toured the ESA ESTEC facility in the Netherlands but I could not see the same enthusiasm there. It seemed very tired. So going with a commercial company like Airbus is the way forward for Europe in my opinion.

[briangriffiths]

Great interview.
You have craved a niche market here as most other space channels just report on the progress of Starship at Boca Chica, with only token additional content.

[ronaldgutman]

Great Interview with Airbus! I love the European coverage along side the U.S Space coverage this is a WIN WIN. Thank you for the Great Content!

[sirachman]

Thanks for covering the Space Symposium!

[clavo]

Most agreeable enthusiasm from this hands on scientist. Wish you would have repeated his name several times. I'm pretty sure you said it once, but it escaped me. Indeed it is "time to get passed pioneer phase and start the industrialization phase", as he said.

[farmergiles]

Another excellent interview! Thanks! You're certainly right that there's much to learn from the folks at the Symposium, and it's great to hear them.

[demowulf]

Great interview ! Thank for being there and doin it ! What a great future we are facing !