Orbital Composites, an in-space robotic manufacturing specialist, has won a $1.7m U.S. Space Force contract, to further “the development of In-space Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) of antennas”. Collaborating with Axiom Space, Northrop Grumman, and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Orbital will be working on two applications: Satellite-Based Cellular Broadband (SBCB) and Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP). …
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