I would like to cheer on Tulane Univ as they are now finalists for innovative concepts for in-space assembly of spacecraft – particularly tugs – propelled by solar electric propulsion that transfer payloads from low-Earth orbit, to an orbit around the moon, or to a lunar distant retrograde orbit.
No, it is not MIT, Cal-Tech or Columbia univ and no this is not fake news, etc but Tulane Univ. I hope Tulane Team will win it…
here is the news from NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/big-idea-challenge-finalists-devise-crafty-concepts-for-in-space-spacecraft-assembly