If you want to send a large piece of a spacecraft into orbit that can later be assembled into a larger product in space, it is common practice to build it on Earth and design it to fold up so it can fit into a rocket.For the past …
NASA wants to build huge spacecraft in orbit with robots and 3D printers
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