2 Oct 2023

Astronaut visits Aotearoa looking at emerging technology

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm on 2 October 2023
Illustration on the NASA stand at the 73rd International Astronautical Congress, Paris, France,  September 2022.

Photo: AFP

The Southern Hemisphere's only official astronaut is in Aotearoa looking at emerging technology to transfer energy wirelessly, even from space!

This pioneering technology is being developed by Auckland based-company EMROD. Astronaut and Sao Paulo Senator Marcos Pontes is Brazil's former Minister for Science Technology, Innovations and Communications. He is also an engineer and joined NASA in 1998.

He speaks with Jesse.

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