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LIFE Habitat Passes first Milestone for 2023

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Tom Patton
Mar 28, 2023
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The LIFE habitat under development by Sierra Space has passed its first milestone for 2023.

“Our testing campaign has demonstrated that our LIFE habitat pressure shell design has a predicted life of far greater than 60 years – or 525,600 hours – based on Sierra Space’s 15-year on-orbit life requirement and the applied 4x safety factor.”

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