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American company Tethers Unlimited plans to launch in space arachnid robots that can literally weave, like a web, space designs. SpiderFab Program will allow to build objects in near Earth orbit that will be in several times exceed in size the structures that are going to on the ground. Create similar infrastructure directly on orbit is not only more convenient and efficient, but also less costly.
Robert Hoyt, CEO, said at a presentation at NASA SpiderFab project, which is the first two years to come a mechanical spider will be launched into Earth orbit, where it will become deploy antenna arrays and solar panels. Robots by According to Hoyt, separate parts will be “weaved” from carbon fiber designs, connecting them then into one. While moving space infrastructure builders will be like spiders do in nature – according to the web woven by him himself.
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The company’s specialists have already managed to present an experimental a sample of a spider-like robot that weaves easily from the lungs carbon fiber elements of various designs.
Robert Hoyt is convinced that his project will create using Earth materials, high-tech infrastructure in space, which will give a huge impetus to the development of the first solar systems, and then other outer space.
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