The habitation deck
Airbus is framing LOOP as the next-generation ISS, which is due to end its 30-year reign in low Earth orbit. After the ISS retires in seven years, NASA is looking to collaborate with private companies on other space stations in orbit. NASA has called on its commercial partners Blue Origin, Axiom Space, NanoRacks, and Northrop Grumman to develop concepts for a space station under the space agency’s Commercial Low-Earth Orbit Development Program.
