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NASA Searches for Big Idea for In-Space Assembly of Spacecraft

Joe Atkinson

Preprint 2016/Jan 1, 2016

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OpenAlexSpacecraft Design and Technology · Space exploration and regulation · Space Satellite Systems and Control

In the 2017 Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge, NASA is engaging university-level students in its quest to reduce the cost of deep space exploration.

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