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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., March 31, 2022 – The Aerospace Corporation’s (Aerospace) Atomic Planar Power for Lightweight Exploration (APPLE) technology, which can enable missions to the deepest parts of the solar system, was awarded a 2022 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase II grant worth approximately $600,000.

NASA is funding some seriously wild ideas, from spacecraft made of asteroids to shapeshifting robots.

Aerospace wins Nasa grant to develop paper-thin spacecraft concept that clears space debris Share 8 June 2016 US-based technical and scientific research, development, and advisory services provider, Aerospace has secured a Nasa grant to develop Brane Craft, an extremely thin spacecraft concept that would wrap around space debris and remove it from Earth’s orbit. The 1m² Brane Craft spacecraft model weighs around 50g and is less than half the thickness of a human hair. Due to its size, the sp...