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 ...

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 ...

What do you get when you fold together the ambitions and contributions of four space station-bound astronauts from the United States, Japan and Russia? A zero-g indicator in the form of an origami ...

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 ...

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 ...

What would happen if you threw a paper airplane from the International Space Station? It’s the sort of idea that might emerge from a curious child — or a physicist with a flair for wonder. Maximilien ...

Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth. It is no joke. A prototype passed a durability test in a wind tunnel last ...

A 14-year-old student has won a prestigious STEM award for creating an origami-inspired structure that supports 10,000 times ...

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Have you ever wondered how they get large satellites into small rockets to launch into space? Welcome to the world of Origami. Follow along as Bryan Kitahara, the founder of Down to Fold, as he guides ...

Though not among the most important questions of our existence, a new study answered a puzzle that many often pondered upon. Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki from the University of Tokyo examined ...