Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

To get started, all you need is a standard A4 sheet of paper and the folding skills of a 4-year-old.

Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit - WorldNL Magazine

Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper into a plane and letting aerodynamics do the rest. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo simulated the release of a paper airplane from the International Space Station (ISS) to see if would survive atmospheric reentry. In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s growing trash p…