That’s just one of 16 innovative and experimental sats that launched Sunday Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is ...

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 ...

These configurable bots could launch flat and then be assembled in space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A newly designed ...

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 ...

Space Forge, a Cardiff-based company, is set to test its groundbreaking heat shield, known as Pridwen, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 mission later this year, Space.com reports. The ingenious-looking space ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Pridwen heat shield is shaped like a shuttlecock to slow the spacecraft’s descent. Credit: Space Forge Space Forge has unveiled additional details about its unfolding, “origami” heat shield for ...