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  "id": 18339633,
  "title": "Caltech Robotic Space Demo Successfully Builds in Space",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/caltech-robotic-space-demo-successfully-builds-in-space",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-05T17:06:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Caltech News",
    "slug": "caltech-news",
    "url": "https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-robotic-space-demo-successfully-builds-in-space"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A robotic truss builder that was conceived, designed, and built by Caltech researchers and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has successfully built a structure in space—without the help of astronauts—for the first time. The truss builder, part of DARPA's Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass-efficient Design (NOM4D) program, consists of an…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}