The US Space Force first demonstrated this tactically responsive capability with a launch on Firefly's Alpha rocket in 2023. As part of this "Victus Nox" test flight, a satellite was encapsulated into ...

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Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

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They hope for a production-ready Sunbird in the early 2030s. The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered 'tugs' to be permanently based in space, able to dock on to spacecraft and propel them at ...

In a new call for proposals, DARPA envisions living materials that could self-assemble into antennas, nets to capture debris, ...

A Space Elevator on the Moon, made of mundane materials, could be built with modern technology, and allow ultra-cheap freight off the Moon. $15M reward announced for alleged Chinese ringleader ...

Earlier tests on small versions of the concept have been successful ... The other popular idea is to build a space elevator. For this to work, a company would build a loading platform in orbit ...

It envisages uses including vast nets for orbital debris collection, tethers for a space elevator, or self-assembled wings for ... Is there potential for a proof-of-concept experiment? DARPA is ...