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Watch NASA unfurl basketball-court-sized solar sail for deep space propulsion (video)
Space via Yahoo News· 3 months agoNASA and Redwire Space successfully deployed a massive solar sail in a test, potentially paving the...
NASA will unfurl a 860-square-foot solar sail from within a microwave-sized cube
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThis artist’s concept shows the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft sailing in space...
Newly Launched Solar Sail Is on Track to Unfurl in Low Earth Orbit
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA new spacecraft could soon be soaring through Earth’s orbit while gently being pushed by photons...
NASA Prepares to Unfurl Large Solar Sail From Spacecraft in Orbit
Futurism via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoCome Sail Away It sounds like something from a science fiction novel: a spacecraft with sails being...
ESA successfully unfurls sail to drag spacecraft out of orbit
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe European Space Agency has successfully unfurled a sail aboard a used cubesat to help drag the...
Rocket Lab to launch NASA's new solar sail technology no earlier than April 24
Space via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA square made of four triangles floats above earth with the sun behind. A NASA solar sail mission...
Unfurl Your Sails! The T&C Guide to Cruising Now
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFrom Odysseus on, there has been no form of travel as steeped in myth as sailing, which is no wonder—us out there, on oceans, seas, and rivers, in big...
NASA Launches Solar Sail to Test Sunlight-Propelled Space Travel
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAn artist’s depiction of the Solar Sail System spacecraft in orbit. - Illustration: NASA/Aero...
NASA's Solar Sail Makes First Contact From Space Before Stretching Its Enormous Wings
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoNearly a week after launching to space, a microwave-sized cubesat phoned home for the first time as...
Christmas road test: we sail a tall ship
Autocar articles via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe Pelican of London costs £3500 a day to run and maxes out at 9mph Pelican of London lead The tall ship Pelican of London looks for all the world like...
