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Can Chinese scientists bring Nasa’s ‘space spider’ dream to life?

South China Morning Post · · 219 words · By Ling Xin
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“scientists from the Shenyang Institute of Automation in northern China say they have built the key technologies to reach a similar goal.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Striver (Fèndòuzhě; Chinese: 奋斗者) bathyscaphe is a type of deep-submergence vehicle built in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was built by China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). It can a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striver_(bathyscaphe)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; Chinese: 中国科学院) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Professor S. Joe Qin (Chinese: 秦泗釗) currently holds the position of Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science and serves as the President of Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Joe_Qin
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“The team first made the building blocks from a carbon-fibre composite, shaping it into long, hollow tubes using heat and pressure.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Hyperloop pods require materials that combine stiffness and strength and light weight - most of the prototype vehicles have employed carbon fiber composites in some way.
https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/into-the-hyperloop
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web search NEUTRAL — Introduction Composite materials such as carbon fiber reinforced plastics exhibit outstanding mechanical performance at low material densities, thus offering the potential of significant weight reduct…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175558171…
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web search NEUTRAL — To save on fuel and reduce aircraft emissions, engineers are looking to build lighter, stronger airplanes out of advanced composites. These engineered materials are made from high-performance fibers t…
https://news.mit.edu/2024/nanostitches-enable-lighter-and-to…
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“They then added 3D-printed connectors, bonding the tubes to the joints with lasers to create strong, lightweight links without bolts or glue.”
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web search NEUTRAL — It also explains the benefits and limitations of using these methods.
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web search NEUTRAL — How 3D printing aims to recreate ‘a masterpiece of nature’. The technology uses specialised inks from biocompatible materials, such as calcium phosphate, which closely resemble the mineral composition…
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2025/04/04/3d-pr…
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web search NEUTRAL — Next, using co-SWIFT, they printed a biomimetic vessel network into the cardiac tissue.The team even 3D-printed a model of the branching vasculature of a real patient’s left coronary artery into OBBs,…
https://seas.harvard.edu/news/3d-printed-blood-vessels-bring…
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“The researchers built a scaled-down antenna structure in the lab to show that the idea worked, they reported in the journal Space: Science & Technology on April 3.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) is a government-aided institute and deemed university for the study and research of space science in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. IIST was…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ministry of Science and Technology is a government ministry in Israel, headed by the Science and Technology Minister. The portfolio has been renamed several times since its creation, and has previ…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (German: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt; abbreviated BMFTR) is a cabinet-level ministry of Germany. It is headquarter…
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“Today’s spacecraft are built on Earth and launched into orbit, but transporting them by rocket imposes hard limits.”
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web search NEUTRAL — All spacecraft except single-stage-to-orbit vehicles cannot get into space on their own, and require a launch vehicle (carrier rocket). On a sub-orbital spaceflight, a space vehicle enters space and t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft
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web search NEUTRAL — Spacecraft propulsion [note 1] is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites. Orbital launch systems are rockets and other systems capable of placing payloads into or beyond Ea…
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web search NEUTRAL — It provides the extreme acceleration a rocket needs to lift off and release a spacecraft into orbit around Earth or sling it into deeper space. Spacecraft themselves then use their own propulsion syst…
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“Rocket fairings can only hold objects of a certain size, and the intense force of launch restricts the shipment of delicate structures.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Payload fairings have usually been either burned up in the atmosphere or destroyed upon impacting the ocean, but SpaceX began to retrieve them in the 2010s with a fairing recovery program. On March 30…
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web search NEUTRAL — Launch vehicle fairings play a critical role in the success of space missions by protecting the payload during the initial phase of the rocket's ascent through Earth's atmosphere. These aerodynamic st…
https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2024/05/06/launch-vehicle-fairing…
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web search NEUTRAL — Regular viewers of live orbital rocket launches might have seen two objects falling away from the rocket shortly after second-stage ignition. These are known as payload fairings. We take a closer and …
https://headedforspace.com/rocket-payload-fairings/
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“That makes it hard to build systems stretching hundreds of metres or more.”
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web search NEUTRAL — The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, nicknamed Tianyan, is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression, a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou, southwestern China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp…
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web search NEUTRAL — Currently there is a lot of attention paid to space travel, UFOs, and life on other planets or beyond. Unfortunately, we are focused on traveling on the surface of space, rather than though it, as tim…
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web search NEUTRAL — Suppose you’ve got a Golang application that you want to add some kind of rate limiting to. What’s the simplest thing that could possibly work? Your first idea might be to add some kind of persistent …
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