{"id":996,"date":"2010-03-12T18:26:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T18:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2010-03-12T18:26:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T18:26:32","slug":"paper-spaceships-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Paper spaceships anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve started experimenting with a new material, paper honeycomb panels.  It&#8217;s light, very stiff, strong and cheap. We plan on using it as an alternative to foam for a core material in carbon structures. We also going to try it out for balloon interface panels for the next Dark Sky Station and Ascender.<\/p>\n<p>As a first test it&#8217;s being used a the instrument deck on Away 46. That will give us a chance to see how it handles extreme cold and vacuum. The deck ended up the same weight as our existing carbon and foam deck. However it took only a fraction of the time to make and a quarter of the cost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/away46structure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-998\" title=\"away46structure\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/away46structure-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"away46structure\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/away46deck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-999\" title=\"away46deck\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/away46deck-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"away46deck\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/honeycomb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1000\" title=\"honeycomb\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/honeycomb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"honeycomb\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve started experimenting with a new material, paper honeycomb panels. It&#8217;s light, very stiff, strong and cheap. We plan on using it as an alternative to foam for a core material in carbon structures. We also going to try it out for balloon interface panels for the next Dark Sky Station and Ascender. As a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}