Orbital Reef is one of NASA's in-development successors for the ISS.
Sierra Space, the company developing a new space station called Orbital Reef alongside Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, just blew up a small prototype for an inflatable astronaut habitat, a recentWorry not, space habitat enthusiasts, as the explosion was intentional and it was carried out to make Orbital Reef as safe as possible.
The inflatable habitat prototype, called Large Integrated Flexible Environment, or LIFE, stood in for a specific module of the Orbital Reef station during the explosive test.The recent test constitutes the second time Sierra Space has purposefully blown up a habitat module prototype, having carried out a similar test in July.
"This second successful UBP test proves we can demonstrate design, manufacturing, and assembly repeatability, all of which are key areas for certification," Shawn Buckley, Sierra Space's LIFE chief engineer and senior director of engineering, said in the company's statement. Sierra Space's UBP test took place on Nov. 15. in the flame trench of a Saturn 1 and 1B test stand at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In other words, the Orbital Reef station tests took place in the same area where NASA tested rockets for the Apollo moon program in the 1960s.
Sierra Space has successfully completed its second sub-scale Ultimate Burst Pressure test and is the only active commercial space company to successfully meet multiple UBP trials.
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