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 ...

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 ...

Launching large, rigid satellite dishes into orbit is an expensive and energy-hungry task. But what if those massive structures could start out flat—and then unfold or “grow” into their curved shapes ...

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