Every Space Station Comparison: 50 Years of Evolution (3D Animation)
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This 3D animation is a size comparison of all space stations including the future planned ones. All 3D models are built by me.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Early Salyuts
00:36 Skylab
00:46 Salyut 3&4
01:01 Apollo-Soyuz
01:15 Salyut 5-7
01:40 Mir
01:58 International Space Station (ISS)
02:20 Tiangong Program
02:47 Comparison of Current Space Stations
03:10 Axiom Station
03:22 Lunar Gateway
03:34 ROSS
03:44 Pioneer Station
03:55 Starlab
04:07 Orbital Reef
04:23 Voyager Station
#nasa #spacex #starsihp #mir #skylab #salyut #gateway #axiomspace #dreamchaser #compilation #spacecraft
Updates on the future space stations: ● The Voyager Station and Pioneer Station look fantastic but they are not likely to happen in the near future, their pages are even removed from the company's website. ● The following space station's launch date has been adjusted: Axiom Station is postponed to 2026; Lunar Gateway is postponed to Nov 2025; ROSS is postponed to 2027; Starlab is postponed to 2028. ● Here are the new planned space stations: Commercial space station Haven-1 is planned to launch atop a Falcon 9 in 2025; India's Bharatiya Antariksha Station is planned to launch in 2028. If you know more new updates on future space stations, please tell us in the comments! And I may make an updated version in the future!
ay its good that gateway isnt fully delayed
The voyager station with the starship docking and the same music, it feels like something out of 2001 a Space Odyssey
It reminds me of elite dangerous
It is obviously a homage to 2001.
@@4i4oGosho07 It was originally done in the 2001: A Space Odyssey movie from Stanly Kubric, from 1965. Long, long before even the original Elite games, which it probably inspired. Look into it, it was the inspiration for many movies, TV series and games.
yeah its so sad that voyager will never exist cause that company is a massive scam.. hopefully someday we can see a similar design become a reality though, edit: and by similar design i mean one that actually makes sense, especially the docking part
@@rogerwilco2 Kind of, not really. 2001 was filmed that way because a rotating ring is the only practical way to produce artificial gravity in space. Which, of course, means any real space station with gravity is going to look basically the same.
I'm disappointed that the Axiom Station isn't called the Axiom SPACE Station. If astronauts cannot joke about going to Uranus, they can at least joke about going to the A.S.S. Great video!!!
I like the way you think
Best comment :D
Yess
ROFL 🤣
You know Noone is stopping them calling it that
You forgot to dock a space shuttle onto Mir/ISS, it was a regular visitor to both and unmissable for the completion of the latter. It would have been a great indicator of how big it was. Other than that, great video.
If you can find it, and have the money, Revell did a very nice 1/144 scale model of the ISS 20 years ago. There are even mods to add a docked 1/144 shuttle.
I would have liked to see a time lapse of the modular stations (Mir and ISS) being assembled. The shuttle could have docked to the final version of Mir, while only being present during the assembling of the ISS, with Dragon/Soyuz only remaining for the final frame (thats when the iROSA arrays and Nauka are added, etc) Not complain, this was absolutely amazing, but I missed the shuttle aswell. Also, have the axiom station start attached to the ISS.
We can probably consider the space shuttle as a "station" since Apollo-Soyuz is Included in the Video.. The Shuttle carried Spacelab in it's payload bay which essentially is a pocket space station
@@stahlhelm5755 Everyone misses that! The Shuttle was it's own space station when it wasn't building them.
Тогда логичнее использовать Буран. Для него на станции Мир был предусмотрен стыковочный узел. И он был частью всей концепции.
None of those "planned" stations will be realized, except the expansion of the Tiangong space station. Will check back in 2030.
Gateway is definitely happening, can't speak to the rest
Axiom and Orbital Reef probably, but Voyager is a total stretch
@@ParanormalCacti the gateway will happen, just not the date they are proposing now, realistically it would be around 2030
The Soviets were really amazing in actually imagining a space station and building it when noone else had
The US was working on space stations as well, but initially they were only for military use. The U2 and the ICBM made the program obsolete before the first station was completed and launched.
The US made a prototype of a space station during the apollo era in the 60s, but it was uninhabited
В то же время у населения не было туалетной бумаги
@@ullllll Зато сейчас в туалетную бумагу можно заматываться.
The Russians were also the first ones to launch a human into space. (Yuri Gargarin)
Nice animations and intriguing content, but I'd be a little more skeptical with the Planned section. A concept is not a "plan." The Tiangong expansion, Axiom, and Gateway are (as far as I know) the only ones with major programmatic commitments, and while Orbital Reef has big names attached, it's still somewhat hazy and some of its partners are unreliable.
the only one of the "planned" that I look at and expect to see in the future is Starlab. Especially when I look at the timeframes. Voyager in particular makes me laugh, they aren't going to be able to finish something that large and complicated in 5 years. Not when the first piece isn't even in orbit yet
@@KMCA779 Spinning Space Stations are a joke as well. They've been tested and were found to be an awful way to handle artificial gravity. They are also way too difficult and expensive to be worth it. Anything space related needs to not only be reliable and capable of being built, but also not cost absurd amounts (its expensive enough as is)
@@KMCA779 Voyager is a joke. The other are a little more Serious.
Yea I lol'ed at the last one. It'll never happen, at least not by 2027.
@@KMCA779 First module for ROSS already in metal (not finished yet of course, btw).
I love how the ISS is in the configuration of during the making of this video
No shit why would it not be 🙄
@@mariasirona1622 I came across many ISS videos with the configuration 10 years ago
@@SusEngineSFS oke
hi sus wait what😐
Mind blown
The TKS spacecraft docking to Salyut 7 earned you MEGA respect for even knowing that existed and caring to design a model and animate it. AWESOME!!!!!!
After orbital reef I was like "wait theres more?" and was fascinated by voyager station
It's a shame more people don't know about orbital assembly Corporation and their Voyager and Von Braun class stations
@@deltoid77-nick well since OAC is a scam organisation the less attention the better IMO.
It's just a shame that Orbital Assembly is a scam and all their "projects" are hopeless dreams.
No surprise. It’s a scam. Good CGI visualizations is all it is and will ever be.
@@hubertley939 The only thing they can do is inventing cool names. Nobody would do buissiness with them.
I like that nearly all space stations from the past and current in operation, built to dock Soyuz capsule or a relative of it ( Chinese ).
Well, they proved to be reliable.
@@molybdaen11 Surprisingly, and unlike most of the other stuff made in USSR/Russia
@@jymmykill1611 Oh they had a lot of failed starts. But they choosed a series and figured out its bugs over the jears. They simply already paid they prize.
@@jymmykill1611 Russians/USSR are renowned for reliability. Just because they have failures does not mean they also can't be reliable, their tanks, rifles, aircraft, etc are all designed to take a kicking and keep on ticking. Or have you never heard of an AK47 before?
@@jymmykill1611 Большинства?.. Почти вся военная, промышленная и особенно хозяйственная сфера СССР едва ли не лучше, чем современные аналоги. Не говоря уже о сталилитейной продукции. Ключи, ножи, ложки, мясорубки - всё это в СССР было примерно такого же качества, каким сейчас гордятся лучшие компании США и Германии. Вот только стоило копейки и выпускалось десятками миллионов ежегодно. Не надо судить о всей продукции настолько огромной страны, по паре наиболее неудачных автомобилей (которыми Россия никогда и не славилась).
4:36 Okay, these year-timelines are starting to sound *very* optimistic!
this is pretty amazing!
Hello Jesus! Fancy seeing you here!👏
Yeah so was that thing you did to make more fish and bread….tell me Jesus can you do that with tacos?
Jesus aproves
Even Jesus agrees!
Can you teach me how to walk on water?
I like how the more years we look out into the future, the crazier the space stations become; my best estimate is that we wouldn't have something like the voyager space station untille around 2030-2040 cause even things planned next year got deylead all the way out till 2025-2026
Well, in 1969 they planned the Lunar Gateway and we don't have it yet. Maybe we need more 4 or 6 generations to see Voyager Space Station be more than a dream.
I'm more pessimistic that we would be lucky to see more than one of those planned stations in this decade. I expect delays almost certain for every single one of them and everything except lunar gate have a considerable chance (for some very high chance) of cancellation.
Building the ISS went on for decades. And in comparison to the other planned space stations, it is pretty small. So I think, even the Lunar Gateway won't be finished until the end of the 2030s. Everything beyond the Lunar Gateway is just dreaming. The german word „Luftschlösser“ fits for those future stations.
@@diariodefoto if they started construction on voyager station now they wouldnt be done for 40 years, and thats assuming nothing goes wrong. its on such an insane scale that by the time it is done it would be outdated.
It depends on the efforts AND resources put into it. If a cold war breaks out between China and the US, something probable considering that China will overcome the US economy by 2030, this things can be achieved in the span of a decade ..
Great choice of music; the docking scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of, if not my favorite moment in film history. Amazing job!
About damn time we get that bicycle wheel station.
Man this is spectacular to watch! I like how its organized and the spacecraft docking, keep up your work! Goodluck😄😁
Wonderful work! This is as informative as it is entertaining.
really loving the camera animations and the timing of the music!
Thanks for this video! Everything in this video is perfect: both the music and the visuals!
Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content 🤙🏾
It's pretty crazy to see the size difference between the Lunar Gateway station, and the Starship HLS that's going to be used as the lander..
Starship is a totally different breed of spaceships from the usual NASA/Roscosmos stuff
@@HenryLiu7 and yet they can't get one into orbit without the booster or starship blowing up..
Your video is cool! I like the 3D models of stations.
Spectacular and the perfect music choice, very well done
Fun Fact: Most of the future space stations planned will be cancelled.
Hope not
Chinese space agency always stick to the plans
@@derekwampum8861 dictatorship doing her work
@@derekwampum8861 they try but Peoples Liberation Army Navy has PLAN as its name
Those Russian stations will probably be scrapped, thanks to the war.
That's hilarious. I like how you take's OAC's announcements so seriously. Still, I was curious to see what they've been up to, so I visited their website. There one can read the following amazing assertions: "Orbital Assembly Corporation develops and operates gravity-capable space stations on-orbit, in cislunar space, and throughout the solar system; enabling humanity to work, play, and thrive in the space ecosystem. We leverage space flight heritage commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products and our own innovative proprietary technology to build hybrid space stations with artificial gravity." So, how many "gravity-capable space stations' does OAC operate right now? None. And how many "space flight heritage" COTS products has OAC leveraged (love that term!) to put one of their aspirational space stations into Earth orbit, cislunar space, or elsewhere in the solar system? Well... The CEO is a marketing hack and former consultant who took over in 2021 after serving as a member of the exec advisory board. No engineering or finance background, as far as I can tell. One of the founders, now COO, is an architect who ran an architecture firm. Expect this firm to vanish before they operate anything above the Karman line. It's expertise lies mainly in flooding the zone with aspirational fluff until they have burned through their investors' money.
Yeah just my thoughts. Anything depicting itself with a Space X Starship is to be taken with a massive grain of salt. Its kinda sad how much money and hence forth potential is wasted by such Investor Scams
You're seeing things. The only one taking something "so seriously" (I imagine you saying that in Al Gore's voice) is you, with this video.
@@JuteTwine I'm out, you win. That's some next level edgelording, and the funniest shit I've read in weeks.
This description sounds like a description for some corporation from the fantasy universe of the Cyberpunk 2077 sample or something like that. I think it's fair to count on these time frame :)
Nicely done! Simple, straightforward, educational, and entertaining 👍👍
This is wonderful! Certainly puts things into perspective.
Fantastic video. Thank you!
This is the definition of quallity
Спасибочки.это было 5минут чистого удовольствия.
Absulutely wonderful. Thank you for the preview to our future.
Delightful to watch! Well done. Good luck Dream Chaser 👍🚀
Happy 24 years of ISS. May we all continue to collaborate in peace for space exploration forever.
What excellent animation and 3D modeling!
this is so nicely done
Good video. Well by the end that certainly explains the choice of music. Is that really in the works ? Amazing.
I cannot describe the satisfaction I derived from this video. I only wish the Shuttle had been present somewhere, and maybe some more animations of Mir, ISS assembly and then have the Axiom station start out on the ISS and separate. The Voyager station with Starship was awesome, the Lunar Gateway with HLS and Orion was awesome. Aside from the Shuttleas mentioned, the amount of attention given to representing the visiting vehicles of each station was REALLY appreciated (especially the different versions of Soyuz, and most of all the TKS on Salyut 7. THAT was awesome!) Thank you so much you earned a sub
Really nice video with exact and up-to-date models. The dates for the planned space stations are bit optimistic, but you took them as given so I don't blame you ;-) The Tiangong expansion, the Gateway and the Axiom Station are the only one with a real commitment behind though, but their dates might slip in the next years as always with space stuff.
The music was a beautiful touch. Just watched 2001 about a month ago and this is something to behold
WOW, amazing! Thank you!
Hey, great that you made a video like this! The 3D modelling is totally fine for this kind of video, but IMO the animation could improve by a bit. There is too much back and forth, too much zooming in and out, left and right. I think it would have been much better to move the camera from left to right at an almost fixed angle, then move the camera a bit further away, each time the stations need a bit more space for the camera to catch them.
The ISS is the single most expensive structure ever built by humans. An absolute marvel
Shows what can happen when nations work together.
@@brodriguez11000 When civilised nations work together
Very nicely done :)
Amazing work
This deserves more views at least
Very nice, thank you! I was waiting for the Space Shuttle to dock with Mir or ISS though ;)
Wow your video is great thank you so much!!!!
Great Video Good Job!
Wow, you improved so fast. Did you learn blender in school?
Thanks a lot! I learned Maya at school, but I switched to blender recently.
@@REAL_SPACE Hope some day your channel will become huge, good luck
@@REAL_SPACE the voyager space station kinda reminded me of the ark from the 100, lets hope the world doesnt get destroyed by icbms launched from all over by rogue ai, the ark started with 400, and the voyager station is gonna hold 400 passengers, lets hope the world doesnt get destroyed
I love seeing China rise as a leader in space in recent years. It excites me to think about all of the science that'll come out of having another superpower sending missions out into the cosmos.
Be interesting to see if India does anything.
@@brodriguez11000 they gotta give toilets for the masses before that for sure.
@@xogeneral1512yes mate we became the first country to reach South Pole of moon 😊thanks for ur support
Excellent video!!!
Honestly my favorite video on KZhead
They should also have shown the original planned wheel-shaped space station that was designed by von Braun. He believed that with enough funding, he could have had it ready by the late 1950s.
No doubt, unfortunately it wasn't given to him
Almost everything we want to do in space could have been done by the late 1950s had the money been provided. BuT nO!
@@MDE_never_dies The good guys?
@@MDE_never_dies Those guys?
@@MDE_never_dies Hmm...
Hard to actual fathom the scale if we can't see the progression. All I see is that one station is about 20% larger than the last. Keep the view more open, so we can compare all the way back.
The video uses either Salyut docking vehicles or Apollo command modules from start to finish, they give you the scale.
@@krashd Not exactly accurate, I also saw crew dragon and the Sierra Space craft in there...not to mention Starship.
Myr is my favourite. It got an irresistible personnality to itself.
Thanks for choosing the correct music for this video. Any other song would have felt wrong.
Fun fact: Blue Danube (soundtrack used in this video) is also used by the original space game Elite- series when docking at a station
I remember playing that version back in the late 80's and early 90's!
That was probably an homage to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey from 1968. That's where it was first used together with shots of a space station. It's been used many time since. Partly as an homage, but also because the waltz melody goes well with the imagery of objects slowly spinning in space.
And is still being done in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, it's current incarnation.
Stunning quality video - extremely informative.
Why can't I stop watching it, it's a masterpiece!
*_GREAT VIDEO!_*
Amazing. Would have liked a better size comparison between the ISS and the planned future stations like orbital reef but that’s minor…
Nice touch using Blue Danube waltz from 2001 A Space Odyssey. I think the donut torus is the way to go to create spin gravity. The spin doesn't need to be full 1G but approximating 1G for the long term health of all aboard during long duration stays.
Spinning artificial gravity was proven many years ago to just not be a viable way to handle gravity. Not only is it absurdly expensive to bull off, but the benefits dont outweigh the cons. NASA long looked into artificial gravity and came to the conclusion that just making astronauts work out was far better then trying to simulate any sort of gravity, especially considering spinning gravity isn't really anything like gravity on earth.
The Blue Danube is a little bit older than 2001: A Space Odyssey. ;)
@@Rigel_Chiokis Oh I know, the scene was set so nicely with that piece of music.
@@Memeieli If you got to the wikipedia page on artificial gravity you will notice a very interesting paper in reference (4). First we need to differentiate between costs when you build something on Earth and launch it to orbit and building something in space and putting it in orbit. It is widely accepted that if we want to have any reasonable advancement in our endeavors in space we need to set up infrastructure in space. So your claim about it being absurdly expensive ceases to be when we set up infrastructure up there. We don't even need to source 100% of our resources and parts in space. You need to start with the more heavy ones (steel frames , plates ,etc). Then you could also look into shipping in orbit certain more "rare" resources that are needed in smaller quantities and build the parts in space. Generally high tech chips and the like require clean rooms (something easier implemented in space) as well as vacuums. Second we have little actual data whether it is worth having 24/7 7 days a week artificial gravity or just have intermittent artificial gravity paired with exercises. NASA came to the conclusion that building a space station or rocket on Earth that is capable for artificial gravity isn't worth the effort compared to the periods astronauts spend in space. Lastly as the paper highlights we honestly have a way hgher tolerance to higher rpm than previously thought. If you can source the heaviest part of a space station in space then just bulding a longer space station for lower rpm becomes feasible. Not to mention that you probably don't even need a human to experience 24/7 artificial gravity. In that scenario you don't the whole ship or station to have access to artificial gravity. Then working in shifts allows for more room to spare.
this was brilliant
Amazing
❤️ Amo o seu trabalho do Brasil 🇧🇷
4:46 "it's not possible." "No, it's necessary"
Thanks for having a model I can use to make the lunar gateway in Spaceflight Simulator, I’m thanking you because I don’t want it to seem like I’m plaguing
Fantastic job ! ! ! ! ! ! ❤🚀🧑🚀🪐🌠❤
I thought there was more than one Skylab? Either way, absolutely amazing video!
Nope, there was only one Station, but the Crew missions where called Skylab 2 to 4. You probeply remerbered that
If we're going to show future planned stations so far away that they aren't even scheduled for launch date yet, why not add some Starfleet star bases. Sure they're about 3-4 centuries away but they're still technically planned according to Gene Roddenberry and a couple hundred million fans ---- our future scientists and engineers.
Agree Paper project for most.
Great job
i love small youtubers they are just fun
No way we can build The voyager station by 2027
Most of the planned are either never happening or will happen differently at a (much) later date than "planned".
But whatever, if no one's imagination has been fired up, then tomorrow's engineers are fewer in number and the future takes longer to arrive.
Well played with the song selection and timing. 2001 is still one of my faves.
Great presentation. It helps to see everything side by side. I once used minetest (minecraft clone) to model every spaceship and space station to scale. It was very revealing. Then i even built (to scale) the 2001 Space Odyssey ring station too. Keep up the good work.
Love how you use "Blue Danube" here. Gave me same feeling as "2001 a space odyssey"
Everything after the Tiangong Space Station is not planned, but imagined
ROSS - it is planned, funded, second module (dock) launched for tests to ISS year ago, while first module almost ready.
Great vide- hol up, this music is nostalgic
Nice job
the voyager space station kinda reminded me of the ark from the 100, lets hope the world doesnt get destroyed by icbms launched from all over by rogue ai, the ark started with 400, and the voyager station is gonna hold 400 passengers, lets hope the world doesnt get destroyed
Well only humans are only stupid enough to do it first not even the evie bot cannot thought of doing like this stupid before humans
Skylab is a really underrated station. It had as much volume as the much later Mir, and was so spacious an astronaut could jog within its inner circumference. It was even possible to become stranded in the very middle, requiring either another astronaut to help or using the stations air flows to slowly escape.
*That sounds terrifying.* T__T
Yeah it did exist, it was just purposely deorbited after it was decommissioned by NASA
Even more impressive, it was put in orbit with a single Saturn V launch, whereas Mir was modular
Good to see progress in space exploration
having the blue danube playing in the background is amazing
The Starship docking into the Voyager Station gave me Interstellar vibes
And is just as fictional
By 2200 we'll have built Elysium. 😂 All joking aside, excellent work on this.
I cant stop watching this video
Perfect choice of music.
Should’ve shown Mir and/or ISS with Shuttle attached.
When are you going to be doing more sfs content, animations improved!
i love classic songs with futuristic ships/space stations lol
Very cool animations
The ROS space Station has an incorrect configuration. Today, the space station project consists of a node module, a gateway module, a scientific and energy, basic, target modules and a production module, as well as a spacecraft maintenance platform
Скорее всего проект ещё сильно поменяется, если вообще состояться.
@@maks8751 не сильно, состоится. МКС будет жить до 2028-го года, потом начнут программу затопления станции.
4:35. Voyager Station. So, we may finally get what was promised to be up and being finished in 2005 Thirty years from now. (Add another Twenty years minimum to build it.) Fifty years late. So, if we ever get there. Starfleet will be what, 150 years late? 200 years late? And the illustration was done better in the beginning of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Looking forward to seeing all the new commercial space stations in the next decade.
I thought this was a metalballstudios video at first. Nicely done!
Wonderfully made! It especially shows how ridiculous the Gateway is with the Starship docked
That's quite optimistic with the Voyager space station, I would add 10 more years to that...
10 additional years and maybe SpaceX could do it. But the Voyager Station people are just some guys who have exactly nothing. Like, not even a place to do any work.
@@MareTranquil more like 110years....SpaceX is busy right now with their own SNAFUS, sorta buying Twitter and not running down motorcycles on highways with their sister company.
Voyager is a scam. Literally just one guy looking for people to make free animations for him while he lives off of patreon money while doing not even the slightest bit of work towards any of his promises. Considering for how long he has been doing this I have trouble feeling bad for people who still fall for his BS. It's like they just refuse to see it.
@@STho205 maybe 110 for that company lol. But a ring station is definitely practical within the next few decades. But eeeh, not as big as the Voyager.
Once Orbital Assembly Corporation hires an engineer, they will have made a massive step forward to realizing this concept. I mean realizing that the concept is nonsense. But we have to admit, the company has excellent CGI experts, and all that’s needed is a change of physics and it can be done.
Perfect the music !