{"id":26735,"date":"2016-06-10T01:46:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T08:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/nasa-funds-aerospace-corporation-for-superlight-debris-removing-minisats"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:35:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:35:28","slug":"nasa-funds-aerospace-corporation-for-superlight-debris-removing-minisats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/nasa-funds-aerospace-corporation-for-superlight-debris-removing-minisats","title":{"rendered":"NASA Funds Aerospace Corporation for Superlight Debris Removing MiniSats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-funds-aerospace-corporation-for-superlight-debris-removing-minisats.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 06\u2013009-2016] <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<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/technology\/2016\/06\/09\/nasa-funds-aerospace-corporation-superlight-debris-removing-minisats\/\">http:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/technology\/2016\/06\/09\/nasa-fun...-minisats\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 06\u2013009\u20112016] 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50286,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26735\/revisions\/50286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}