Rendezvous Robotics plans to commercialize a technology called TESSERAE for self-assembling structures that could be used for large arrays or antennas in space. Credit: Rendezvous Robotics WASHINGTON ...

In the vast vacuum of space, Earth-bound limitations no longer apply. And that’s exactly where UF engineering associate professor Victoria Miller, Ph.D., and her students are pushing the boundaries of ...

On Orbit Demonstration to be Launched on SpaceX Transporter Mission in 2026 Momentus recently completed several contract milestones, including the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) phase, of the DARPA ...

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is embarking on a groundbreaking initiative to develop living structures in space that can self-assemble and adapt to environmental conditions.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An aerospace startup that aims to provide a method to build living and industrial structures in space, communications systems and solar arrays to beam energy ...

Aerospace undergrad Alex Kuehnle observes PhD student Ivan Wu in the composites laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Because it’s costly and cumbersome to transport large ...

There has been much discussion in the space community recently about building large data centers in orbit to avoid the environmental consequences of sprawling computing facilities on Earth. These ...

Starshade-based methods, both for in-space observatories like the Habitable Worlds Observer or ground-based observatories, have the potential to increase our observational capability without launching ...