Spacecraft dockings improve car assembly

The next car comes down the conveyor belt ready for the dashboard to be added. Speed and position are controlled as if it were a spacecraft docking automatically with the International Space Station. Invented by entrepreneurs at ESA?s Business Incubation Centre, a new system using similar docking technology precisely fits the dashboard into the car.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM0AKOJH4G_index_0.html

Time: 20. Jan. 2010

Feed: ESA Top News

Topics: car, spacecraft