The working tabletop prototype of the.
Nasa origami solar panels.
Origami has been a hot topic in technology recently.
Solar power origami style nasa.
Origami expert nasa researchers fold solar arrays for space nasa has joined forces with an origami expert to meld art and technology in the creation of foldable solar structures that could one day.
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.
As far as i remember a paper girl made out of a chocolate wrapper was my first origami artwork though i came to know of the name origami only in my late teens.
These panels are light foldable.
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.
Brian trease at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory has been thinking about how it could be used in spacecraft.
Nasa s jet propulsion laboratory researchers engineered solar panels inspired by the japanese paper folding art origami.
Here s a look at two technologies that block starlight to give telescopes a better view of distant earth like planets.
They are light foldable and easily deployable.