Solar sails in Lisboa
Geocaching origami, Etienne Cliquet, april 2006
Photographs of origamis and Lisboa was made possible with the help of Sonia Marques.
PDF crease patterns are designed under Oripa software with the help of the mentionned scientific documents.
During a stay in Lisbon, i have hidden five bottles of portuguese wine (vinho verde) containing each one an origami in five secret places. Four of them are different prototypes of solar sails or solar panels used for space exploration (Planetory society, U3P, NASA, Jaxa and more organizations). The fifth one is another deployable structure of my own derived from the kite base origami. The GPS coordinates of each cache are collected for possible further explorations.
ship in bottle by Artem Popov - Copyright © Artem Popov
coordinates : N 38°42.964' W 009°08.758'
crease pattern of a folding derived from a tree leave analyzed
as engineering structure by De Focatiis and Guest for solar panel
credit: NASA / MSFC Illustration
the geometry of unfolding tree leaves - B.Kresling, H.Kobayashi, J. F. V. Vincent
biomimetics and the leaf fold patterns - Davide De Focatiis
coordinates : N 38°42.818' W 009°08.026'
another crease pattern derived from a tree leave analyzed
as engineering structure by De Focatiis and Guest for solar panel design
NASA, Industry Partner Test 20-Meter Solar Sail System - Image credits : Copyright © NASA/MSFC
coordinates : N 38°41.395' - W 009°25.611'
crease pattern of the Miura-ori folding (PDF made with Oripa software)
SFU (Space Flyer Unit) - Copyright(C) 1996 H.Kuninaka/ISAS All rights reserved
passage of a sail into a bottle - © Copyright Michel Bardet
Coordinates : N 38°41.785' W 009°12.411'
crease pattern of the Guest-Pellegrino folding (PDF made by Etienne Cliquet with oripa software)
engineers watch a zero-gravity simulation of the sail deployment and test its mechanical configuration.
This photo was taken in January 2001 at NPO Lavochkin, the world's largest manufacturer of robotic spacecraft.
Credit: Louis Friedman, The Planetary Society (c).
Coordinates : N 38°42.985' W 009°07.097'
crease pattern derived of the Kite base by Etienne Cliquet (PDF file)
Cosmos I - the launch of the First Solar Sail - Copyright 1994-2005 The Planetary Society.
