Sundancer

Mission Profile

Sundancer was a proposed Bigelow Aerospace inflatable commercial space station module, conceived as the next step after the Genesis I and II technology demonstrators and larger than any previously launched station module. Planned as a three-person orbital habitat approximately 180 cubic meters in volume when inflated, Sundancer would have used the same TransHab-derived soft goods construction as Genesis, tested in the crewed environment for the first time. The module was intended to serve as an independent commercial station or assemble with other modules and a hard docking node into Bigelow's BA 330 station concept. Sundancer was not built as Bigelow Aerospace shifted focus directly to the BA 330 design before the company suspended operations in 2020.