Thursday, February 12, 2015

NASA NIAC Spiderfab Status update on the way to making kilometer scale structures

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Robert Hoyt, Tethers Unlimited - SpiderFab: Architecture for On-Orbit Construction of Kilometer-Scale Apertures



Two things are the most exciting for near term transformation of space capability

Spiderfab and Spacex reusable rockets.



Here is the Spiderfab update.



Improving and testing reliability and a lot of engineering would be needed to get to 100 kilometer structures.






















Making 6U cubesat trusselator to put out 50 meter trusses and make truss of trusses from several






They are using Baxter robot to work with trusselators.



























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