How about moving it further up, but making the station completely unmanned, run by robots. They don't even have to be autonomuous, due to the low distance they

How about moving it further up, but making the station completely unmanned, run by robots. They don't even have to be autonomuous, due to the low distance they can be remote-controlled -- fewer resources needed to keep in orbit, fewer resources needed because there aren't any humans. Plus the main inhabitants don't have issues with the vacuum of space, so many experiments could be parked 'outside', maybe on those lattice structures.