The Trusselator is a key element of the NIAC "SpiderFab" architecture for on-orbit fabrication and integration of space systems. This technology will enable order-of-magnitude improvements in performance-per-cost for a wide range of mission, including: - High Power Solar Arrays for SEP Exploration Missions - Multi-Hundred-Meter Solar Sails for Outer Planet Missions - Arecibo-scale Antennas for High-Bandwidth Communications with Mars and Deep-Space Missions - Kilometer-Scale Masts for Long-Baseline Interferometric Astronomy - Kilometer-Scale Sparse Apertures for Exoplanet Imaging The Trusselator will also enable on-orbit fabrication of large apertures and baselines for DoD space systems to enable order-of-magnitude improvements in bandwidth, sensitivity, resolution, and power for a wide range of tactical, strategic, and national security missions, including SATCOM, geolocation, SIGINT, and Earth observation. It will also enable affordable construction of large antennas for GEO commercial communications satellites.
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