Space stations break down. Satellites get damaged. Repairing them requires launching replacement components on rockets. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now exploring an ...

The US military is brainstorming ways to build large structures in space, from telescope antennas to elevator tethers. By growing these objects in microgravity using biological organisms, they hope to ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — which has been known to fund the development of sci-fi-sounding ideas like flying aircraft carriers or massive streetlights on the Moon — is now ...

The US Military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is attempting to develop and grow large-scale ...

Tech could be used to build "very large space structures." Credit: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign DARPA has awarded two contracts to demonstrate in-space manufacturing technologies capable of ...

Hey so, random question, but do you have any ideas for large-scale, novel biomechanical structures that can be grown in microgravity that you’ve been sitting on? Just asking on behalf of the Defense ...

The “NOM4D” project will undoubtedly be a boon for the nascent private space sector, but it could also have real strategic implications for the U.S. military. If the claims of the Trump administration ...

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 ...

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