NASA NIAC Spiderfab Status update on the way to making kilometer scale structures
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.
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Making 6U cubesat trusselator to put out 50 meter trusses and make truss of trusses from several (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/100201.png) (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/100201.png)
They are using Baxter robot to work with trusselators.
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Babak Saif, NASA GSFC - A Gravitational Wave Detector Based on an Atom Interferometer
видео:
http://new.livestream.com/viewnow/NIAC2015/videos/75183704
взято тут:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/02/nasa-niac-spiderfab-status-update-on.html
Я думаю, без 3Д-принтеров тут не обойтись. 8) Но пусть будет новая тема!