S.A. space firm scores NASA money, ticket to moon

S.A. space firm scores NASA money, ticket to moon

Port San Antonio-based XArc/Astroport received $1.3 million in NASA small-business innovation and tech transfer contracts on the heels of Starship rideshare announcement. Astroport Space Technologies and its parent Exploration Architecture Corp., or XArc, landed...
How Space Companies Plan to Build Roads and Bases on the Moon

How Space Companies Plan to Build Roads and Bases on the Moon

Astroport is working with researchers at the University of Texas, San Antonio, to invent an induction furnace nozzle that heats up lunar regolith so that it can melt, then solidify, into bricks. A number of specialized robots would then assemble the materials into...