autoevolution
20 Apr 2021, 15:44 UTC ·
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If there is one thing we can say about space exploration, it is that this field of human enterprise sure is packed with crazy ideas. We’ve explored a bunch of them this April during autoevolution’s Space Month and in part thanks to NASA’s recently-announced Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. And we’re not nearly done.
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Coming today from the NIAC world is something called APPLE. That’s not the Apple you think, but short for Atomic Planar Power for Lightweight Exploration. We know, that doesn’t explain much, but read on.
The concept, created by Joseph Nemanick from the Aerospace Corporation, is described as