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Origami from orbit
mchan
post Mar 28 2008, 01:58 AM
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It's UM and it's SF on the light side --

Origami from orbit

It would be way cool if they can pull it off.
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djellison
post Mar 28 2008, 07:51 PM
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If you made, say, a thousand - stacked them up in some sort of release mechanism, parked it on the Kibo external platform and released them, at speed, downward - you could distribute along the ISS orbit, in such a way whereby one or two might make it down. Have each primary school make one to the fixed design and then send them all up. I love paper planes - infact I'd love to fold this design if I could find it, it looks fantastic.

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- mchan   Origami from orbit   Mar 28 2008, 01:58 AM
- - Shaka   But IMHO it's carrying "faster, cheaper, ...   Mar 28 2008, 06:10 AM
|- - MahFL   It's a paper shuttle but coated in heat resist...   Mar 28 2008, 04:22 PM
- - nprev   It's an interesting experiment in material hea...   Mar 28 2008, 04:35 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (nprev @ Mar 28 2008, 08:35 AM) How...   Mar 28 2008, 08:42 PM
- - djellison   If you made, say, a thousand - stacked them up in ...   Mar 28 2008, 07:51 PM

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