Nasa Origami Solar Panels

Origami has been a hot topic in technology recently.

Nasa origami solar panels.

Nasa s jet propulsion laboratory researchers engineered solar panels inspired by the japanese paper folding art origami. 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. The working tabletop prototype of the. Brian trease at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory has been thinking about how it could be used in spacecraft.

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. They are light foldable and easily deployable. Here s a look at two technologies that block starlight to give telescopes a better view of distant earth like planets. Solar power origami style nasa.

These panels are light foldable. Researchers at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory jpl are working on ways to fold up components like solar panels into neat little packages like origami that can then be deployed easily when the. Both the thumbnail and the footage seen at 1 05 used in this video are from the compliant mechanisms research group cmr at brigham young university.