Space station (Earth-7149)

A space station is a platform or facility built for multiple roles, including habitation, defense, and research, either in geosynchronous orbit of a planet or in deep space.

Description
The first human space stations were constructed across the Sol system during the breakthrough of space exploration in the 21st century and later started to be employed en masse for the next centuries in the intrasolar and extrasolar colonization. By the 26th century, space stations under the USCMC and the Weyland-Yutani Corporation came to fill numerous roles, including the construction and docking of starships, colonial habitats, defensive outposts, and scientific facilities.

Trivia

 * Space station on Wikipedia.