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Montenegro - Zvezdane
5 October 2026
Vote for your favourite team in the Girls Go STEM Audience Choice Awards 2026 by 18 November, 14:00 CET: The team's solution: HOUDINI is a self-folding rocket nozzle that fights space debris at the source. After engine shutdown, Nitinol shape-memory hinges—engineered to activate during passive cooling near −50°C, with no electronics—fold the nozzle along origami lines. This increases drag for faster deorbiting, while predetermined break points enable controlled fragmentation so that minimal debris survives re-entry. Fully passive and fail-safe, HOUDINI c… Video by YouTube channel.