Growing the Final Frontier: How DARPA Plans to Bio-Print 500-Meter Structures in Space

Synthetic Biology, Orbital Manufacturing, and the Rise of Living Space Infrastructure Introduction: From Manufacturing in Space to Growing in Space For decades, space infrastructure has been constrained by one unforgiving reality: everything must be launched from Earth. Every kilogram of structural material, every solar array, every antenna boom, and every habitat module must survive launch…

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