This startup is building infrastructure for the 1st factory in space
Blue Canyon Technologies will provide the spacecraft vehicle infrastructure supporting a “factory” that will 3D-print solar arrays in space. The mission is called Archinaut One andis Made In Space The mission is funded by a a $73.7 million contract from NASA. The amount given to Blue Canyon, a 100% employee-owned company, has not disclosed.
One thing that would become easier is launching things to space. If a payload is too delicate or too big to go on a rocket, no problem — robots could instead make the thing once the spacecraft reaches orbit. In the further future, robot assembly could reduce the time astronauts spend “outside” their spacecraft spacewalking, since robots would be making things instead of them.
For Blue Canyon, Archinaut One will be a proving mission for its new Saturn-class spacecraft bus, which is larger than what they've sent up in the past. At about the size of a small filing cabinet, the company is hoping this bus will be better able to support scientific data gathering for its customers. Bigger buses mean more space to store things, like cameras and instruments.
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