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All Hail Robo-Jellyfish!

Written by: Linda 5 years ago Science

Photo: Image via Festo One of our lovely readers brought this amazing video to our attention and we think its so fantastic we just had to ... Festo have designed and created a pneumatic vers ion of the gelatinous creature that moves remarkably ... thing. There have been a number of other vers ions floating about over the past few years but none that have caught our attention quite as much as this mechanical offering. ... hemisphere and eight tentacles used for propuls ion . At the centre of the AquaJelly is a watertight, laser-sintered pressure vessel. This comprises a ... Keep reading >>

IKAROS: Sailing the Solar Wind to the Sun

Written by: merlynne6 3 years ago Science

... pollut ion in space. No longer science fiction , the solar sail has been designed, built and is ... (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiat ion Of the Sun) is the first of two missions from the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) that will evaluate solar sails as propulsion systems for interplanetary spacecraft. The sail membrane of IKAROS utilizes photons from the solar ... Keep reading >>

Exploring Venus's 700°C Inferno

Written by: merlynne6 3 years ago Science

Photo: NSSDC/NASA Venus Surface - Maat Mons / Magellan Mission 1991 On May 20, 2010, JAXA launched an extraordinary mission from the Tanegashima Space Center using the H-IIA ... made headlines because of its method of propuls ion; it is powered by the melding of a power solar sail and ion propulsion engine. As it travels towards the sun, IKAROS has a compan Keep reading >>

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