Because it's costly and cumbersome to transport large structures such as satellite dishes into space, aerospace Ph.D. student Ivan Wu and his advisor, Jeff Baur, at The Grainger College of Engineering ...

Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy ...

LOS ANGELES, June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Orbital, a space infrastructure company building AI data centers in Low Earth Orbit, today announced a $5 million pre-seed round to accelerate ...

There has been much discussion in the space community recently about building large data centers in orbit to avoid the environmental consequences of sprawling computing facilities on Earth. These ...

Voyager Technologies has contracted Vivace Corp. to manufacture the primary structure of the Starlab commercial space station. Starlab is one of several NASA-funded Commercial LEO Destination ...

The race to build data centers in space is gaining momentum as AI drives unprecedented demand for computing power. Orbital facilities could tap into abundant solar energy and avoid many of the ...

The rapid advancements in satellite technology have been inextricably bound up with the support provided by sophisticated space folding mechanisms. In addition, with the rapid progression of space ...

Operated by NCC – part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult – the LSIC fills a long-standing gap in the UK’s innovation landscape, providing companies working with large, complex components the ...

Aerospace undergrad Alex Kuehnle observes PhD student Ivan Wu in the composites laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Because it’s costly and cumbersome to transport large ...