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Grendel  ·  3245 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Source of studies for advanced concepts NASA has funded.

I'm reading "Enabling All-Access Mobility for Planetary Exploration Vehicles via Transformative Reconfiguration". If I understand it correctly, it's about building shape-shifting robots for the purpose of "exploration" (the plasma cannon is just for show, really!). Very interesting, thanks for bringing this to our attention!





pluralz  ·  3244 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you :) I like it because many of the concepts go into technical depth, whereas alot of space/tech blogspam sites don't. :) A great one is the use of metallic hydrogen as a rocket propellent.