Key advance toward 'micro-spacecraft'

Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 11:49 in Physics & Chemistry

Fleets of inexpensive, pint-sized spacecraft are one giant leap closer to lift off. Researchers at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society described a new, razor thin temperature-regulating film that brings this sci-fi vision of 'micro-spacecraft' weighing barely 50 pounds and 10-pound 'nano-spacecraft' closer to reality...

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