Station in a Box

Mission Profile

Station in a Box is a compact modular space station concept proposed by various commercial space companies, designed to fit within a standard rocket fairing and deploy as a fully functional orbital habitation facility. The concept uses inflatable or deployable modules to maximize pressurized volume within a constrained launch envelope, potentially enabling rapid deployment of ISS-successor station capabilities at dramatically lower cost than traditional station architectures. Multiple companies have studied variants of this concept, though none has advanced beyond preliminary design as of 2026.