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I know Bigelow Aerospace went out of business, but send up several modules of the type they were designing the big flexible ones with mylar and shit.
Other companies are working on inflatables and the Bigelow owner was a loon, so don't mourn that loss.
NASA's Commercial LEO Destinations program is working on private space stations. Orbital Reef will include an inflatable made by Sierra Space. There's also Starlab, which is a single launch big can, and Axiom, which is like ISS 2.0 and will bud off the ISS.
And there are other companies working in stations. Gravitics and Vast are making cans. Max Space has concepts for inflatables.
Sierra Space is picking up where Bigelow left off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Integrated_Flexible_Environment