Because it's costly and cumbersome to transport large structures such as satellite dishes into space, aerospace Ph.D. student Ivan Wu and his advisor, Jeff Baur, at The Grainger College of Engineering ...

Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy ...

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 ...

Because the startup behind the spacecraft, the US-based Starcloud, thinks that space might be the next great domain for data ...

Backed by a16z speedrun and a group of leading venture investors, Orbital’s pre-seed round funds its 2027 Pathfinder mission and the development of its Orbital-1 satellite ...

The race to build data centers in space is gaining momentum as AI drives unprecedented demand for computing power. Orbital facilities could tap into abundant solar energy and avoid many of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An aerospace startup that aims to provide a method to build living and industrial structures in space, communications systems and solar arrays to beam energy ...

The rapid advancements in satellite technology have been inextricably bound up with the support provided by sophisticated space folding mechanisms. In addition, with the rapid progression of space ...

Operated by NCC – part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult – the LSIC fills a long-standing gap in the UK’s innovation landscape, providing companies working with large, complex components the ...

Aerospace undergrad Alex Kuehnle observes PhD student Ivan Wu in the composites laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Because it’s costly and cumbersome to transport large ...