ORBITAL ASSEMBLY HOTEL

California-based Orbital Assembly has announced it will begin building the first-ever space hotel in 2025, which is expected to welcome its first guests in 2027.The company’s Voyager Station is a rotating space station that will produce artificial gravity by increasing and decreasing its rate of rotation.

With its 200-metre diameter hub and spoke design, Voyager Station’s Outer Ring Truss (ORT) is the backbone of the space hotel. It will provide a provide mount for the hotel’s habitation modules, solar panels, radiators, and a rail transport system, and has an access tube set inside which people will use to move around. Below the ORT are a series of connected pressurised modules that make up the Habitation Ring. Each 1,809.5 sqm module is 12 metres in diameter and 20 metres long, with two or three internal levels, depending on the facilities they house.