Axiom: a proposal

h/t Cerno, Axiom Station. It's a commercial station in orbit: nearly double the useable volume of the International Space Station.

My only suggestion is that they run this thing not in LEO but between the Van Allens, like 2.5 R_e. Per Baker 2014 I'd strongly suggest not scraping the inner edge of that second belt at 3 R_e.

Starship allows for freight-transfer direct to a station between the belts, where LEO was somewhat stuck taking whatever it could get. Also: less space junk; and what junk there is, goes slower. And that orbit is closer (delta-V-wise) to everywhere; and you've already cleared the inner belt's rads.

The website is looking at 2 years, 41 days for Hub One [CORRECTION 11/18: the earlier poast had "98 days", that's for the Ax-1 to the ISS]. Seems like it's to beat out Northrup's HALO, which last I looked was selling to Gateway, which ain't gonna happen.