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Jed McCaleb is an American programmer and entrepreneur best known for his work in cryptocurrency before turning to spaceflight. He created the eDonkey peer-to-peer network, built the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange (which he sold in 2011), co-founded the cryptocurrency company Ripple, and in 2014 co-founded the Stellar Development Foundation, serving as Stellar's CTO. He sold his large XRP holdings between 2014 and 2022 for roughly $3.3 billion, funding his next venture. McCaleb founded the aerospace company Vast in 2021 with a mission to build artificial-gravity commercial space stations, and is personally committing about $1 billion to the effort to develop an ISS successor. He serves as Vast's founder and chairman after stepping back from the CEO role.
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A single-module commercial space station intended to be the world's first, launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and designed to host crews of up to four astronauts for short-duration microgravity missions. Vast pushed Haven-1's target launch from 2026 to the first quarter of 2027 to allow additional system-level environmental testing. Haven-1 serves as a precursor demonstrator for Vast's larger station ambitions, providing crew habitat, life support, and research and manufacturing volume in low-Earth orbit. Vast pairs station launches with dedicated crewed missions flown on SpaceX Dragon, positioning Haven-1 as an early destination for commercial astronaut and research flights.
Vast's proposed successor to the International Space Station, a larger modular outpost pitched for NASA's Commercial LEO Destinations program to ensure continuous US and allied human presence in low-Earth orbit after the ISS is retired. Haven-2 is designed as a scalable multi-module station for government and commercial customers, supporting microgravity research, in-space manufacturing, and national-security missions. It represents Vast's bid to become the primary government-anchored station operator of the post-ISS era.
14 patents on file, but none with both an extractable figure and an abstract on Google Patents yet.
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