To get started, all you need is a standard A4 sheet of paper and the folding skills of a 4-year-old. Reading time 3 minutes Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper ...

Scientists and engineers at NASA are using origami techniques to help solve a fundamental dilemma facing spacecraft designers: How do you take a big object, pack it into a small container for rocket ...

What do you get when you fold together the ambitions and contributions of four space station-bound astronauts from the United States, Japan and Russia? A zero-g indicator in the form of an origami ...

WSU researchers have used the ancient Japanese art of paper folding to possibly solve a key challenge for outer space travel – how to store and move fuel to rocket engines. The researchers have ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Background: Spacecraft How do you make a spacecraft? Whether you need a satellite to study what’s happening here on Earth, to make images of ...

KASHIWA, Japan — Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth. It's no joke. A prototype passed a durability test in a wind ...

Have you ever wondered how they get large satellites into small rockets to launch into space? Welcome to the world of Origami. Follow along as Bryan Kitahara, the founder of Down to Fold, as he guides ...

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Transformer bots can form more than 1,000 shapes. (Jie Yin, NC State University via SWNS) By Stephen Beech via SWNS New shape-shifting ‘Transformer bots’ have been inspired by origami. The versatile ...

Though not among the most important questions of our existence, a new study answered a puzzle that many often pondered upon. Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki from the University of Tokyo examined ...