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Using Metamaterials to Build A Starshade in Space [NIAC 2025]

Fraser Cain 18,095 2 months ago
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👉 Watch our videos with no ads: https://www.patreon.com/c/universetoday We all want to see potentially habitable exoplanets around Sun-like stars. But to do that you need a starshade. Something to cover the star and reveal the faint planets around it. What can we build these structures from to make them rigid and strong enough? Finding out in this interview. 🟣 Guest: Christine Gregg Dynamically Stable Large Space Structures via Architected Metamaterials https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/dynamically-stable-large-space-structures-via-architected-metamaterials/ 🚀 NIAC 2025 playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmllrKLZ9d6STqkKc3Pj4S7M 🚀 NIAC 2024 playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmn__xOxSjc9zn8AEeaL831- 🚀 NIAC 2023 playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJ42wpShvmmM_Ft5DzAbrwzXHB8ED0rf 00:00 Intro 02:05 Meta-materials 06:12 NIAC award 14:11 In-space assembly 27:04 More interviews 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

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