10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026
The ISS is aging and is expected to be brought down from orbit into the ocean in 2031. To replace it, NASA has awarded more than $500 million to several companies to develop private space stations, while others have built versions on their own.
On its heels will be Axiom Space’s outpost, the Axiom Station, consisting of five modules (or rooms). It’s designed to look like a boutique hotel and is expected to launch in 2028. Voyager Space aims to launch its version, called Starlab, the same year, and Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef space station plans to follow in 2030.
While the cost of a stay aboard any of these outposts has not been released, expect ticket prices in the tens of millions of dollars at first.
However, if these private space stations are successful and profitable, they could eventually increase access to space for researchers, national space agencies, and maybe even firms that wish to manufacture products in space.
As early electric cars age out, hundreds of thousands of used batteries are flooding the market, fueling a gray recycling economy even as Beijing and big manufacturers scramble to build a more orderly system.
The Cybertruck, sycophantic AI, and humanoid robots all made this year’s list of the biggest technology failures.
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