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Thick-panel origami structures showing deployment from folded to expanded states. Credit: Peng et al./ Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59141-2.

The origami space plane will likely not be a good fit for a wide range of missions, but the researchers suggest a version of it could be used as a passive probe to measure atmospheric density or ...