SPHERES-RINGS on ISS (ISS037-E-025879)

Autor:

NASA

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http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-37/html/iss037e025879.html

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https://www.plwiki.pl/b/a56a7

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Opis:

In the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory, NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, Expedition 37 flight engineer, conducts a session with a pair of bowling-ball-sized free-flying satellites known as Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES. Surrounding the two SPHERES mini-satellites is ring-shaped hardware known as the Resonant Inductive Near-field Generation System, or RINGS. SPHERES-RINGS seeks to demonstrate wireless power transfer between satellites at a distance for enhanced operations.

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Public domain