TASS/. Russian cosmonauts are set to carry out the first-ever experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) this year to test a shape memory synthetic plate coated with cellular material ...

AFRL researchers are developing origami antennas deployable in space. The goal of the new Center for Physically Reconfigurable and Deployable Multifunctional Antennas located at Florida ...

Mechanical engineer and materials scientist Andy Lennon had used nitinol—a shape memory alloy of nickel and ... structures that could be deployed in space applications. After extensive ...

A compact, light weight, telescoping space baffle with a novel tape measure deployment mechanism. [video:https://youtu.be/QU1NQ15Be0U] Space baffles are utilized to ...