Nasa Solar Panels Origami

Origami has been a hot topic in technology recently.

Nasa solar panels origami.

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. 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. 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.

Last year zirbel and trease collaborated with origami expert robert lang and byu professor larry howell to develop a solar array that folds up to be 8 9 feet 2 7 meters in diameter. 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. Unfold it and you ve got a structure 82 feet 25 meters across. Brian trease a mechanical engineer at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena.

The working tabletop prototype of the. 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. 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.

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. Nasa developed origami style solar panels to be used in space images courtesy of byu nasa and jpl caltech.