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Massive 'Tycho' Space Station 10X Larger Than the ISS Wins Inaugural Aurelia Prize (thedebrief.org)
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A hard shell that unfolds like oragami will fit in a single Starship payload but expand to over 250k cubic meters of space (which seems impossible, that's like 10 olympic pools) and offers practical solutions for many of the common engineering challenges with building long-term human habitations in orbit.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I was under the impression just a cloth type of thing could be vaguely in the vicinity and the airflow would send it to the hole. Its like strong enough to drag things over but not so strong it will tend to rip up the surface or something.