Space Probe to Sport 'Transforming' Hardware

An upcoming space probe will have transforming hardware? Must resist "more than meets the eye / Michael Bay" jokes.

Dubbed the "flying laptop", the spacecraft is the brainchild of Toshinori Kuwahara of the Institute of Space Systems at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, whose idea will appear in a forthcoming edition of the spaceflight journal Acta Astronautica (DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.04.011). The craft will carry a host of instruments and sensors, such as cameras, multispectral imagers, thermal infrared imagers, star trackers, GPS receivers and sea-surface-height sensing radar.

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