 Concept art of the Sundancer module | |
| Station statistics | |
|---|---|
| Crew | 3 (1) |
| Launch | never launched(2,3) |
| Mission status | Cancelled |
| Mass | 8,618.4 kg (19,000 lb) (1) |
| Length | 8.7 m (28.5 ft) (4) |
| Diameter | 6.3 m (20.7 ft) (4) |
| Pressurised volume | 180 m3 (6,357 cu ft) (1) |
| Orbital inclination | 40.0 degrees (1) |
| Typical orbit altitude | 463 km (288 mi) (1) |
| References:1,[1] 2,[2] 3,[3] 4[4] | |
Sundancer was the proposed third prototype space habitat intended to be launched by Bigelow Aerospace—and the first human-rated expandable module based on TransHab technology acquired from NASA. It was to have been used to test and confirm systems used in the company's commercial space station efforts during the early 2010s, and if successful, would have formed the first piece of the proposed commercial space station.
While Sundancer had been under construction at the Bigelow plant in North Las Vegas, Nevada,[5] the company announced in July 2011 that Sundancer had been removed from their station evolution path, and that the B330 would become the first production module.[6]
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