Nasa Origami Solar Panels

They are light foldable and easily deployable.

Nasa origami solar panels.

Brian trease at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory has been thinking about how it could be used in spacecraft. 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 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. Solar power origami style nasa.

These panels are light foldable. 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. 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. 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.

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