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It brings SpaceX’s ambition of developing a fully reusable and rapidly deployable rocket a big step closer.

Since Diaz took over, his tenure has been defined by declining numbers of deployable officers in the department.

"In this paper, we also give directions on how we should develop these robots to make them actually deployable in the real world," says Hochul Hwang, first author on the paper and a doctoral candidate in Kim's robotics lab.

At the same time, applications to become an officer have declined as well, shrinking the deployable force from around 1,300 to just over 900 today.

The spaceborne testbed demonstrated the ability to beam power wirelessly in space; it measured the efficiency, durability, and function of a variety of different types of solar cells in space; and gave a real-world trial of the design of a lightweight deployable structure to deliver and hold the aforementioned solar cells and power transmitters.