Zero Gravity at NASA's Space Camp

A  group of aerospace engineering students from the University of Michigan needed to gather data at zero gravity. Their experiment, the extendable solar array system (XSAS), is designed to increase the power of small satellites. Because of the complexity of the contraption, which is an accordion-like structure that starts at 10 cm by 10 cm and unfolds to two meters, the young engineers needed to gather data to support the full-scale model. This data was collected in Houston through NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. Have a peek -

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