Army-funded smart fabric collects space dust on International Space Station (IMAGE)

U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Army-funded smart fabric collects space dust on International Space Station

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Researchers at the Army's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology develop an acoustic fabric being tested on the International Space Station could be used to develop space dust telescopes and allow astronauts to feel through their pressurized suits .

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Space BD / JAXA - image composite by Juliana Cherston, MIT

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