Brian trease at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory has been thinking about how it could be used in spacecraft.
Nasa solar panel origami.
The working tabletop prototype of the.
Imagine an orbiting power plant that wirelessly beams power down to earth using microwaves.
Trease and the team created an origami like fold that can transform an 82 foot 25 meter solar panel into a much more manageable 8 9 foot 2 7 m diameter.
Nasa invents a folding solar panel inspired by origami a prototype of a new solar panel inspired by origami.
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May 12th 2015 by glenn meyers jet propulsion laboratory researchers have engineered nasa solar panels that are based on the japanese paper folding art origami.
Researchers at brigham young university byu and nasa s jet propulsion laboratory have figured out how to one day create.
Origami has been a hot topic in technology recently.
Sending the solar arrays up to space would be easy trease said because they could all be folded and packed into a single rocket launch with no astronaut assembly required.
Researchers say origami could be useful one day in utilizing space solar power for earth based purposes.
Make them foldable using the ancient art of japanese origami.
Solar power origami style nasa.
This is what new technology from nasa is trying to do capture the first images of planets outside our solar system and you can make your own model of the spacecraft using origami.