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potentially contributing to future space manufacturing capabilities. While a Department of Defense agency, DARPA has taken an interest in lunar technology development, with NOM4D complementing ...
Encouraged by significant progress from research teams during the program's first two phases, DARPA has now greenlit in-space testing – a key milestone toward making orbital manufacturing a reality.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has confirmed two research teams to further investigate in-space manufacturing, in its NOM4D (Nomad”) programme. Both the University of ...
It is maturing the capability at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. DARPA launched NOM4D, which stands for Novel Orbital Moon Manufacturing, Materials and Mass Efficient ...
DARPA's Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass-efficient Design (NOM4D) program kicked off in 2022 with the aim of developing methods to ship raw materials to orbit for ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is taking a significant step toward overcoming the challenges of assembling large-scale structures in orbit by testing new in-space manufacturing ...
Tech could be used to build "very large space structures." Credit: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign DARPA has awarded two contracts to demonstrate in-space manufacturing technologies ...