Items Tagged with 'manufacturing in space'

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—A new R&D project will study cold welding techniques for in-orbit spacecraft repairs.

Wichita State University is leading a new a three-year project to assist NASA’s manufacturing paradigm shift from “factories on earth” to “factories in space.”

Several start-ups, such as Redwire Space, Space Forge Ltd. and Varda Space Industries, hope to ramp up activity over the next two years.

BREMEN, Germany—Airbus has been selected by the European Commission to study spacecraft manufacturing in space through the Horizon 2020 Programme.

WASHINGTON—The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching the Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials and Mass-efficient Design program, or NOM4D—a program that could enable manufacturing in space and on the moon’s surface.