Nasa Origami Solar Panels

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.

Nasa origami solar panels.

The working tabletop prototype of the. They are light foldable and easily deployable. 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. Origami has been a hot topic in technology recently.

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

Nasa s jet propulsion laboratory researchers engineered solar panels inspired by the japanese paper folding art origami. These panels are light foldable. Solar power origami style nasa.