Clockwork Starfish (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

Clockwork Starfish

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SwRI has designed a new technology to magnetically attach to metallic asteroids and sample their surfaces. Two Clockwork Starfish devices were tested in low gravity aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.

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SwRI

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