The eight inch plane is the result of an unlikely collaboration between a Japanese professor of aerospace engineering and origami masters to design a novel kind of spacecraft.
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Given its rounded nose and that it is made of folded silicon treated heat resistant paper, tests suggest that it could survive the descent to Earth, which would not be fiery.
When released from the International Space Station, which orbits at around 250 miles, it would be travelling at Mach 20, that is 20 times the speed of sound, but should slow considerably to Mach 7, as it falls through the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere.
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2 comentarios:
¿Sabías que me gusta mucho hacer origami? Pero lo más complicado que sé hacer es una pegaso, una rata o una rosa de kawasaki :)
Creo haber visto alguna de esas figuras de ratas en tu otro blog :)
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