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The concept arts highly indicate that Starlab is going to be launched in one piece, i.e. its propulsion and habitat modules are bolted together permanently

Yes, the Starlab is designed to fit inside the Starship's cargo bay in mind after all

Starliner's never going to fly with crew aboard for long if technical problems keep popping up every time a scheduled launch date is near

Have this been tested on how it performs on a Starship?

Reminds me of how wide Skylab was back in the day

Starlab's main habitat is a rotating centrifuge?

Except for Axiom, which will co-orbit the ISS until the latter is decomissioned, we know virtually nothing about the specific orbital parameters for either Orbital Reef, Haven-1, or Starlab. All we know is that they are going to be placed in LEO

@Max-Q

I'd understood why Gateway is planned to be placed in high lunar orbit than a low one. Less time for communication blackouts by simply going behind the Moon on Earth's perspective, and (pure speculation here) they also want to have crewed landings on the Far Side sometime in the future

Apollo had 5 test flights (2 suborbital, 2 HEO, 1 LEO) dedicated in testing its heat shield performance before Apollo 8, while Orion had only EFT-1 doing it before Artemis 1. I think even if Apollo engineers had less experience in terms of actual spaceflight time, they understood more of how...

A Challenger/Columbia waiting to happen

So, Orion needs a major redesign of its heat shield before they allow Artemis 2 to fly?

It's either located somewhere in the truss section or it is fully controlled by gyroscopes

According to Ars Technica, unofficial reports reveal that due to development delays, NASA plans to repurpose Artemis 3 as a low Earth orbit test flight of both Orion and Starship HLS instead of an actual lunar landing, nor a Gateway-only mission If this happens, the revised mission would see...

This site has many screenshots depicting the interior of the new redesign for Starlab as of January 2024 https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/01/2028-airbus-voyager-space-starlab-space-station-cutaway-and-interior-plans.html