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

Universe Today Podcast · Feb 5, 2025 · 28m

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 GreggDynamically Stable Large Space Structures via Architected Metamaterialshttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/dynamically-stable-large-space-structures-via-architected-metamaterials/