The Bigelow
Aerospace Genesis II inflatable space habitat
prototype was launched on June 28th via a Russian
Dnepre rocket. Genesis
II succesfully reached orbit, where it joined
the sister ship Genesis
I launched in the summer of 2006. The privately
financed and developed spacecraft are providing
essential experience in the development of the
technologies that will lead to a crew capable
habitat in orbit by 2011.
This chart
shows the sequence of inflatable habitats that
the company plans to fly. The next habitat to
fly will be the Galaxy,
which will launch in late 2008.
The tracking charts for the Genesis I & II
below are courtesy of the website opefs.com.
They will update with a new view when this page
is reloaded.
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