2013/11/07

Space Station Live: SPHERES-RINGS

Ray Sedwick, Principal Investigator for the SPHERES-RINGS experiment aboard the International Space Station talks via phone with Public Affairs Officer Kelly Humphries.

For this investigation, a set of soccer-ball-sized, free-flying satellites known as Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES, are equipped with ring-shaped hardware known as the Resonant Inductive Near-field Generation System, or RINGS, to demonstrate how power can be transferred between satellites without physical contact.


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