Image: Wake shield facility

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Description: The NASA gallery provided the following description of the image: "The Wake Shield Facility (WSF) is a free-flying research and development facility that is designed to use the pure vacuum of space to conduct scientific research in the development of new materials. The thin film materials technology developed by the WSF could some day lead to applications such as faster electronics components for computers.
Title: Wake shield facility
Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceflightporn/comments/7uaumi/the_ram_side_of_the_wake_shield_facility_wsf_in/ (direct link) https://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=191 (direct link)
Author: NASA
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