In the future, space ships will be moved by huge, very thin sheets of special sailcloth. The consortium including the Toruń ABM Space, the Lodz Amepox company and engineers from the Warsaw University of Technology has developed a method of producing cheap and durable material for such sails called the Golden Fleece.
Golden Fleece is the concept of an intelligent solar sail. Its active structure provides increased control and performance and allows the partial integration of spacecraft electronics with the sail. It will be covered with a very thin metallic coating. Raw materials for its production may be mined in space – on asteroids. Technologies used by designers from ABM Space can also be used on Earth, for example for the production of flexible electronic circuits.
The company ABM Space deals with modern technologies related to the space sector and with the transfer of solutions to non-space sectors. Key areas include: mobile and orbital robotics, remote control systems, positioning algorithms without GPS application, design and prototyping of electronic devices and mechanical systems.
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