SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures
- Notice Date
- 2/25/2025 11:49:56 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541715
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY ARLINGTON VA 222032114 USA
- ZIP Code
- 222032114
- Solicitation Number
- DARPA-SN-25-51
- Response Due
- 3/27/2025 4:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 03/28/2025
- Point of Contact
- Michael ""Orbit"" Nayak, Ph.D.
- E-Mail Address
-
DARPA-SN-25-51@darpa.mil
(DARPA-SN-25-51@darpa.mil)
- Description
- Given recent advances in metabolic engineering for rapid growth, extremophiles with novel properties, biological self-assembly properties of tunable materials, and emergent mechanical design principles of biological systems, DARPA is interested in exploring the feasibility of �growing� biological structures of unprecedented size in microgravity. Rapid, controlled, directional growth to create very large (500+ meter length) useful space structures would disrupt the current state-of-the-art and position biology as a complimentary component of the in-space assembly infrastructure. Some examples of structures that could be biologically manufactured and assembled, but that may be infeasible to produce traditionally, include tethers for a space elevator, grid-nets for orbital debris remediation, kilometer-scale interferometers for radio science, new self-assembled wings of a commercial space station for hosting additional payloads, or on-demand production of patch materials to adhere and repair micrometeorite damage.
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- Record
- SN07352345-F 20250227/250225230032 (samdaily.us)
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