Max Haot
personMax Haot is the CEO of Vast, focusing on developing artificial gravity space stations.
Max Haot is a Belgian-American technology entrepreneur and the CEO of Vast, a company dedicated to creating artificial gravity space stations for commercial and research purposes. He has previously served as CEO of Launcher and has founded and sold several companies, including Mevo and Livestream. Under his leadership, Vast aims to revolutionize space habitation and enable long-term living in space.
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The space station startups: NASA’s new space station plan is mistaken
NASA's new space station plan faces strong opposition from Axiom Space, Vast, and Starlab Space executives. They argue that the market can sustain independent stations by 2030, countering NASA's belief of insufficient demand. Max Haot of Vast emphasized their readiness, while Jonathan Cirtain of Axiom highlighted revenue from private missions. Axiom has raised $450M in funding, while Vast has secured over $1B.
Commercial station builders counter NASA’s assessment of LEO market
Vast's CEO Max Haot and executives from Axiom Space and Starlab Space countered NASA's claim of an undeveloped commercial LEO market, asserting profitability by 2030. They highlighted revenue from private astronaut missions and payloads, with Axiom planning to operate its station by 2028. Their responses to NASA's feedback request included 390 pages of analysis supporting their position.