NASA Marshall engineers and scientists, along with their collaborators from Ohio State University, monitor laser beam welding in a vacuum chamber during a Boeing 727 parabolic flight. Tasha Dixon ...

Footage shared by NASASpaceflight shows a large robotic arm appearing to weld one of the company's Starship nosecones inside of its "Starfactory," a massive facility at the company's "Starbase ...

Fast, precise, consistent, safe—it’s no wonder automated welding is growing. Here’s a look at current technologies and new ...

WASHINGTON — ThinkOrbital later this year will attempt to demonstrate a robotic arm in space equipped with a ... the momentum of its recent autonomous welding experiment that flew as a payload ...

Welding and metal-cutting is a messy operation on Earth, but all of that dust and debris simply falls to the ground. However, “when you’re in space ... the robotic arm that executed the ...

In-space manufacturing is a big challenge, even with many of the same manufacturing methods being available as on the ground. These methods include rivets, bolts, but also welding, the latter of ...

If entrepreneurs want to bring our society into space, they’ll bring ... A mechanical arm might do all of the cutting and welding, Harris says. “As you can imagine, a robotic arm really ...

China is developing a rapid-response space defence system to intercept suspicious spacecraft and push them away, according to a senior scientist. If an unidentified object approaches China’s ...

This research has the potential to develop more efficient and cheaper methods for constructing space settlements without the need to receive fully assembled components from Earth. For the study, the ...

This new offering in the highly successful ARM laser family features a new higher power level of 20 kW and a unique dual ring beam configuration. Representing a significant advance in welding ...