New deployable structures could help astronauts maintain muscle mass in space

Lipton and his colleagues have created a new class of deployable structures that could one day be used to create artificial ...
Ars Technica

Is a space elevator (or mass driver) worth investing in?

As for what's affordable... that's all in the eye of the beholder. The world has spent trillions of dollars on space launches already, with very little to show for it mass-wise. A low-g mass driver ...
Aviation Week

Magna Petra To Use NASA Mass Spectrometer On Moon

MSOLO was designed to look for water ice on the Moon, but will be adapted to look for low-molecular-weight gases Credit: NASA Magna Petra has signed an agreement with NASA to repurpose one of the ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

China tests inflatable ‘space factory’ module for in-orbit mass production

A team of scientists in China has completed ground tests of an inflatable, reconfigurable space station module that could ...