That's right: Today, Arx Pax is announcing a new partnership with NASA, which wants to use hover engine technology to capture and manipulate micro-satellites. In other words, NASA and Arx Pax are going to try to create a magnetic tractor beam. A small one.

"NASA realized that this is a fundamental tool," Arx Pax founder and CFO Greg Henderson told Gizmodo over the phone. "What we're providing NASA is a way of manipulating objects in space without touching them." 

But let's back up a quick sec. For those who don't remember, Arx Pax made its debut with the unveiling of the Hendo Hoverboard in 2014. That device—yes, it can indeed hover off the ground—was the first application of the company's patent-pending Magnetic Field Architecture (MFA) technology.