{"id":150207,"date":"2026-04-23T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150207"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:00:11","slug":"can-chinese-scientists-bring-nasas-space-spider-dream-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150207","title":{"rendered":"Can Chinese scientists bring Nasa\u2019s \u2018space spider\u2019 dream to life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor years, Nasa funded a dream called SpiderFab \u2013 a spider-like robot that would crawl through orbit, weaving solar power stations and giant antennas from spools of carbon fibre \u2013 creating structures too large for any rocket to carry whole.<br \/>\nAlthough SpiderFab never ended up in space, scientists from the Shenyang Institute of Automation in northern China say they have built the key technologies to reach a similar goal.<br \/>\nThe team first made the building blocks from a carbon-fibre composite, shaping&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3351085\/can-chinese-scientists-bring-nasas-space-spider-dream-life?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor years, Nasa funded a dream called SpiderFab \u2013 a spider-like robot that would crawl through orbit, weaving solar power stations and giant antennas&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}