{"id":70777,"date":"2016-06-09T21:03:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-funds-aerospace-corporation-for-superlight-debris-removing-minisats-2\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T21:03:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:03:42","slug":"nasa-funds-aerospace-corporation-for-superlight-debris-removing-minisats-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-funds-aerospace-corporation-for-superlight-debris-removing-minisats-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Funds Aerospace Corporation for Superlight Debris Removing MiniSats"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 06-009-2016] <strong>NASA<\/strong> has awarded <strong>The Aerospace Corporation <\/strong>a grant to investigate the possibility of developing an extremely thin spacecraft that would wrap around debris and remove it from Earth\u2019s orbit. The concept, called Brane Craft, is a 1-square meter spacecraft that is less than half the thickness of a human hair. The Brane Craft would only weigh about 50 grams, significantly less than even a standard CubeSat weight of about 1 kg. The 30-micron-thick spacecraft would have a very high thrust-to-weight ratio, and would be capable of travelling long distances, which opens up other possibilities beyond just the removal of space debris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Brane Craft concept is based on the one-dimensional compression of a complete spacecraft and upper stage into an essentially two-dimensional object in order to maximize power-to-weight and aperture-to-weight ratios,\u201d said Siegfried Janson, Aerospace Corporation\u2019s senior scientist of the microsatellite systems department and the lead investigator on the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 06-009-2016] NASA has awarded The Aerospace Corporation a grant to investigate the possibility of developing an extremely thin spacecraft that would wrap around debris and remove it from Earth\u2019s orbit. The concept, called Brane Craft, is a 1-square meter spacecraft that is less than half the thickness of a human hair. The Brane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}