Building Spacecraft Out of Nothing

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Building Spacecraft Out of Nothing

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Jan 10, 2012

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NASA' Innovative Advanced Concepts program and researchers at MIT are looking at using electromagnetic fields to make parts that can unfold and become lightweight, rigid structural objects in space

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Jan 10, 2012

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