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Deep Dive: Autonomous triangular modules could build tomorrow's mega-observatories

Ran in the Late edition of LivePulse, Thursday, October 22, 2026
Original reporting: Phys.org Space, 2026-10-23

Private companies are getting better at launching more mass into space with larger rockets. But there is still a major constraint on the size of objects we can get into orbit—fairing size. This places physical constraints on the overall shape of what we can launch and severely limits the sizes of, say, a communications array or a power satellite.

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