Blue Origin's private Orbital Reef space station passes key design review

A private space station that Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and other partners plan to build just cleared a hurdle on its path to orbit. Orbital Reef — a project involving Blue Origin, Sierra Space, Boeing and a number of other companies and institutions — has passed its system definition review (SDR) with NASA, team members announced on Monday (Aug. 22). The milestone shows that Orbital Reef's envisioned architecture is sound and clears the project to proceed further into the design phase. More

(Source: Space.com - Aug 25)