Wednesday, September 7, 2016

NASA NIAC Brane craft that is solar powered with 4000 ISP and weighs about 50 grams

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Brane craft is paper thin electronics that form a space craft with electrochemical muscles.

Two sheets of kapton with propellant in between driving electospray ion thrusters.

Brane craft could be scaled to football field sized for possibly transporting humans to Mars in one month.












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