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Flower-like origami patterns could inspire folding spacecraft

A new family of origami shapes that unfold like flower petals could be used to design more effective structures in space, like telescopes or solar panels. Origami structures, based on the Japanese ...
Daily Mail

Origami 'space flowers' to beam energy down to Earth: Huge orbiting power plant could unfurl like folded paper, says Nasa

Getting large equipment into space is no easy feat. At nearly £14,000 ($23,400) to send a kilogram into orbit, it's expensive, and room is always limited. To deal with the problem, Nasa has turned to ...
Publishers Weekly

Origami Ikebana: Create Lifelike Paper Flower Arrangements

Coleman, who was initially inspired in papercraft by an origami book his father brought home at Christmas in 1974, got serious in 1996 when he quit his teaching job and made origami ikebana a new way ...
ExtremeTech

Origami might change the way NASA builds solar panels

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