NASA Wants Your Help Designing a Starshade to Observe Exoplanets universetoday storybywill
For the Ultralight Starshade Structural Design Challenge, NASA is looking for ideas for a lightweight starshade that could accomplish that very task. According to NASA, the goal of this challenge is to develop an “innovative low-mass starshade structure that could meet the mass, shape, strength, and stiffness requirements.” Participants are free to choose from four suggested designs , which include:3.
“It must also have the lowest possible mass so that chemical thrusters can keep it aligned during observations and solar electric propulsion system can change its orbit to observe many targets. NASA seeks breakthrough mechanical/structural concepts for a deployable, low mass, high stability, and high stiffness starshade structure.”
In order to be eligible for this challenge, participants must either be U.S. citizens or from an eligible country (specified
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