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The Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station is a proposed orbital facility first announced in 2010 by Orbital Technologies, a Russian aerospace firm collaborating with Rocket and Space Corporation Energia. It was designed as a single module approximately 3 meters in diameter with about 20 cubic meters of usable volume, intended for commercial and scientific clients.
Orbital Technologies was co-founded by Eric Anderson, Chairman of Space Adventures. The company was led by CEO Sergey Kostenko, a former cosmonaut, and Sergey Chernikov, former Deputy Head of Manned Space Missions for the Russian Space Agency. Stiphan Beher joined as Chief Operating Officer in April 2013.
The station targeted clients from the scientific community and commercial industry, including those interested in medical research, protein crystallization, materials processing, geographic imaging, and remote sensing. Media projects and space tourism were also proposed as potential uses.
The original 2010 proposal targeted a launch in 2015 or 2016. By August 2011, the planned launch date had been set specifically to 2016. No launch took place within that window.
The initial 2010 plan called for the station to be serviced by Russian Soyuz and Progress spacecraft, with potential use of other commercially available vehicles as well.
No private financing was publicly announced as of the available record. The Russian Federal Space Agency provided encouragement and support for private participation, expressing hope the station would attract private investment into the Russian space industry, but no firm private commitments were disclosed.