In 2016, Elon Musk’s SpaceX sent Bigelow’s BEAM to the space station, where it is filled with sensors, but Mr. Bigelow said he had a “fantastic” new commercial purpose to reveal soon.

While Bigelow Aerospace’s expandable module, BEAM, continues to perform above all expectations while attached to the International Space Station (ISS), the company has larger ambitions for its ...

Robert Bigelow is working to make sure the pathway to Mars runs through North Las Vegas. Bigelow and his Bigelow Aerospace manufacturing facility played host to eight NASA astronauts and 60 ...

Beyond the current capsule, called the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, now loaded with Space Station gear, Bigelow said the company will launch two new capsules into space in 2021.

Bigelow plans to spend millions of dollars this year to investigate the potential market for this, in light of the fact that China, with its own space station plan, is already courting and ...

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) was only supposed to stay attached to the ISS for two years. It's been performing well enough in its technological demonstration, however, that NASA ...

NASA is exploring options with Bigelow Aerospace to extend the life of the privately owned Bigelow Expandable Activity Module. Known as BEAM, the module is attached to the International Space […] ...

Bigelow Aerospace is in discussions with NASA about extended use of an experimental module added to the ISS, although no agreement has been reached yet.

It's been almost six months since the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) was attached to the ISS, and NASA now has some early data to share. According to BEAM Manager Steve Munday, it's ...

A half-year has passed since astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully inflated a new habitat, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM. On Tuesday, the space agency ...

The BEAM module, developed by Bigelow Aerospace, is designed to test the viability of expandable habitats in space. Over the next two years, astronauts will periodically enter BEAM to collect data ...

Astronauts entered the bedroom-sized BEAM expandable module for the first time today and started hooking up the utilities.