Thunderbird is a single-module space station that is designed to expand to a volume of 12,360 cubic feet (350 cubic meters) once in orbit. Instead of launching multiple missions to assemble an ...
With this change of plan, Russia intends to separate the existing modules of the Russian Orbital Segment of the ISS—Zarya, ...
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US firm’s reconfigurable space station could fly to orbit in a single Falcon 9 launch
Unlike the Thunderbird Station, most space stations require several launches to fully lift into orbit. Thunderbird can be lifted in a single Falcon 9 launch thanks to its “morphic interior structure”.
With the International Space Station (ISS) set to retire in 2030, several nations and commercial space companies have plans ...
Space Forge is on a mission to manufacture semiconductors in space—no humans required. And on Wednesday the U.K.-based ...
There has been much discussion in the space community recently about building large data centers in orbit to avoid the environmental consequences of sprawling computing facilities on Earth. These ...
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