S8 Ep324: PREVIEW FOR LATER SPACE STATION DELAYS AND SHIFTING LAUNCH CONTRACTS Colleague Bob Zimmerman. Axiom Space faces concerning delays in launching modules for its private space station, now pushed to 2028, leaving little margin before the ISS deorbits. Mean
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman about Axiom, building a space station for low-earth orbit, along with several other companies building space stations for low-earth orbit. |
| 0:12.3 | Question is, will it be ready in time for the de-orbiting, planned de-orbiting, of the ISS? |
| 0:21.2 | And Bob is dubious. |
| 0:24.0 | Here's Bob to explain. |
| 0:26.1 | More of this tonight. |
| 0:27.3 | Axiom, private space station at the request of ISS |
| 0:32.6 | to take up some of the slack when ISS goes missing. |
| 0:37.2 | More ahead. |
| 0:39.7 | This is, this is, this is, this is, this speaks volumes of the United Launch Alliance, the rocket company with the Vulcan rocket. |
| 0:49.1 | It has, it is one of the approved contractors, launch contractors |
| 0:54.5 | that the military |
| 0:56.1 | can use and issue contracts |
| 0:58.3 | to. Just last week, |
| 1:01.4 | the military issued contracts for |
| 1:04.0 | nine different launches, gave them all to |
| 1:06.0 | SpaceX. Did not give any of the |
| 1:07.9 | ULA or to Blue Origin. I noted |
| 1:10.1 | that. Well, here's another story on this same subject. |
| 1:14.1 | The Space Force this week switched rocket companies for its next GPS satellite launch. |
| 1:21.7 | It took the launch away from ULA and its Vulcan rocket and gave it to SpaceX. |
| 1:27.1 | Now, it said it swapped that launch. It took a SpaceX launch and gave it to SpaceX. Now, it said it swapped that launch. |
| 1:29.7 | It took a SpaceX launch and gave it to UL, ULA down the road. |
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