Caltech’s ASTRA Robot Builds a Truss in Orbit, Marking a Milestone for Autonomous Space Assembly
In a significant step toward manufacturing large hardware beyond Earth’s atmosphere, a robotic system developed by Caltech with funding from DARPA has autonomously assembled a structural section in low Earth orbit. The experiment, known as ASTRA, is being positioned as the first real demonstration that repeated, piece-by-piece construction can be carried out in space without … Read more