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Galactic Suite
Galactic Suite is a concept of space hotel designed for outer space.
The 'space resort' is designed to orbit the earth at a distance of 450 km, and at a speed of 30,000km, and will accommodate a maximum of four guests and two astronaut-pilots. The first Galactic Suite is due for completion in 2015. The project will establish an integrated space-based tourism concept. It will consist of three pillars; spaceport, spaceship and the space hotel.
Galactic Suite Group
Galactic Suite Group is a Barcelona based company, Spain, which creates oportunities around technology and people to promote a private access to Space. Founded in 2007, the company creates and promotes cutting-edge concepts to foster alliances and help creating relationships among companies and research centres.
Galactic Suite Group is actively involved in the development of a change of paradigm in the space business, where public actors and traditional large contractors will share scenario with smaller private entrepreneurial initiatives, including
- (1) private suborbital flights with reusable spacecrafts able to fly up to 100km and reenter in controlled gliding flights, and staying some minutes in microgravity;
- (2) private spaceports developed by private owners as first stones for complex real state and commercial operations;
- (3) private manned orbital stations to be used as space hotels or scientific private platforms;
- (4) private communications, global positioning systems, remote sensing satellites, provided with reduced sized satellites;
- (5) private access to the Moon or other bodies for mining, responsible exploitation of planetary resources, etc.