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A Robot Builds a Satellite Antenna Truss in Orbit With No Human Hands: DARPA's NOM4D Reaches a First
Riding a Momentus tug launched on Transporter-16, Caltech's DARPA-funded ASTRA robot assembled the first section of an antenna truss in orbit by itself. It is a small structure, but DARPA's NOM4D program wants to scale the method up to structures hundreds of meters to kilometers across.
