Ability to put origami – valuable skill of the employee of NASAsteemCreated with Sketch.

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In Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA there are many people with the most different hobbies. However at least one of them is most useful also for business and is applicable in operation. This ability to add origami. Certain employees work specifically on the decision of the major task of the modern space engineering – how to place material with a big area in the minimum volume. The origami strongly helps with it. The laboratory develops projects which are already applied in deployment of structures of the big area now and also will be applied in the future. For example, special "umbrellas" and coronographs for the telescopes sensitive to influence of light of the Sun and stars. The technology of origami is studied as well in relation to mirrors, and in relation to solar batteries.

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Everytime I see origami I think of shirt folding trick.

nice article you have here ,, would have to study more on that origami thing

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