Every Space Station Comparison: 50 Years of Evolution (3D Animation)

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This 3D animation is a size comparison of all space stations including the future planned ones. All 3D models are built by me.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Early Salyuts
00:36 Skylab
00:46 Salyut 3&4
01:01 Apollo-Soyuz
01:15 Salyut 5-7
01:40 Mir
01:58 International Space Station (ISS)
02:20 Tiangong Program
02:47 Comparison of Current Space Stations
03:10 Axiom Station
03:22 Lunar Gateway
03:34 ROSS
03:44 Pioneer Station
03:55 Starlab
04:07 Orbital Reef
04:23 Voyager Station

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[REAL_SPACE]

Updates on the future space stations:
● The Voyager Station and Pioneer Station look fantastic but they are not likely to happen in the near future, their pages are even removed from the company's website.

● The following space station's launch date has been adjusted:
Axiom Station is postponed to 2026;
Lunar Gateway is postponed to Nov 2025;
ROSS is postponed to 2027;
Starlab is postponed to 2028.

● Here are the new planned space stations:
Commercial space station Haven-1 is planned to launch atop a Falcon 9 in 2025;
India's Bharatiya Antariksha Station is planned to launch in 2028.

If you know more new updates on future space stations, please tell us in the comments! And I may make an updated version in the future!

[dylangtech]

I'm disappointed that the Axiom Station isn't called the Axiom SPACE Station. If astronauts cannot joke about going to Uranus, they can at least joke about going to the A.S.S.

Great video!!!

[ptolemythespacenerd]

The voyager station with the starship docking and the same music, it feels like something out of 2001 a Space Odyssey

[violenthipshaking]

You forgot to dock a space shuttle onto Mir/ISS, it was a regular visitor to both and unmissable for the completion of the latter. It would have been a great indicator of how big it was. Other than that, great video.

[dudermcdudeface]

Nice animations and intriguing content, but I'd be a little more skeptical with the Planned section. A concept is not a "plan." The Tiangong expansion, Axiom, and Gateway are (as far as I know) the only ones with major programmatic commitments, and while Orbital Reef has big names attached, it's still somewhat hazy and some of its partners are unreliable.

[varoonnone]

The Soviets were really amazing in actually imagining a space station and building it when noone else had

[wilboersma]

The TKS spacecraft docking to Salyut 7 earned you MEGA respect for even knowing that existed and caring to design a model and animate it.

[SusEngineSFS]

I love how the ISS is in the configuration of during the making of this video

[arjundurant]

Man this is spectacular to watch! I like how its organized and the spacecraft docking, keep up your work! Goodluck😄😁

[UnrealBeauti]

None of those "planned" stations will be realized, except the expansion of the Tiangong space station. Will check back in 2030.

[anuradhapriyankara]

I like that nearly all space stations from the past and current in operation, built to dock Soyuz capsule or a relative of it ( Chinese ).

[mr_nate]

I like how the more years we look out into the future, the crazier the space stations become; my best estimate is that we wouldn't have something like the voyager space station untille around 2030-2040 cause even things planned next year got deylead all the way out till 2025-2026

[galadato]

After orbital reef I was like "wait theres more?" and was fascinated by voyager station

[peterknutsen]

4:36 Okay, these year-timelines are starting to sound *very* optimistic!

[JuteTwine]

That's hilarious. I like how you take's OAC's announcements so seriously. Still, I was curious to see what they've been up to, so I visited their website. There one can read the following amazing assertions:

"Orbital Assembly Corporation develops and operates gravity-capable space stations on-orbit, in cislunar space, and throughout the solar system; enabling humanity to work, play, and thrive in the space ecosystem.

We leverage space flight heritage commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products and our own innovative proprietary technology to build hybrid space stations with artificial gravity."


So, how many "gravity-capable space stations' does OAC operate right now?

None.

And how many "space flight heritage" COTS products has OAC leveraged (love that term!) to put one of their aspirational space stations into Earth orbit, cislunar space, or elsewhere in the solar system?


Well...

The CEO is a marketing hack and former consultant who took over in 2021 after serving as a member of the exec advisory board. No engineering or finance background, as far as I can tell. One of the founders, now COO, is an architect who ran an architecture firm.

Expect this firm to vanish before they operate anything above the Karman line. It's expertise lies mainly in flooding the zone with aspirational fluff until they have burned through their investors' money.

[NextToToddliness]

Great choice of music; the docking scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of, if not my favorite moment in film history. Amazing job!

[TheCaptainSplatter]

About damn time we get that bicycle wheel station.

[outofthebox]

Fun Fact: Most of the future space stations planned will be cancelled.

[allentowns]

No way we can build The voyager station by 2027

[NorninTGK]

It's pretty crazy to see the size difference between the Lunar Gateway station, and the Starship HLS that's going to be used as the lander..