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Japan’s space agency earmarked the equivalent of $900,000 U.S. Dollars this week to fund an experiment that would focus on flying paper airplanes in space for the next three years. I am not making this up.

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The project, which is attempting to learn more about flight characteristics in support of building spacecraft in the future, has already proven some of its early ambition
– the prototype planes have been through wind tunnel tests up to Mach 7, and 200 degrees Celsius.

Obviously, this is no ordinary paper– it’s been heat-treated– but Japanese officials believe that the conditions they’ve produced will approximate what the planes might face during re-entry to the earth’s atmosphere. The single biggest challenge to the project so far? finding the things after they land– officials are skeptical about attaching a transmitter because of how they might damage the flight characteristics.

Sources: Yahoo, Physorg

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