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NASA's solar sail phones home before attempting revolutionary sunlight propulsion
TweakTown· 6 days agoNASA's tiny CubeSat, which contains next-generation solar sail technology, has successfully phoned...
NASA's Solar Sail Makes First Contact From Space Before Stretching Its Enormous Wings
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 days agoNearly a week after launching to space, a microwave-sized cubesat phoned home for the first time as...
Florida Atlantic University selected for NASA nanosatellite project
WPEC CBS12 West Palm Beach· 6 days agoFlorida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Baton has been selected to partner with NASA and the U.S....
Two small NASA satellites will measure soil moisture, volcanic gases
Phys.org· 6 days agoThe Signals of Opportunity P-Band Investigation (SNoOPI), a low-noise radio receiver, tests a new...
NASA selects Rocket Lab for back-to-back climate change research launches
SPACE.com· 6 days agoAboard each rocket will be a cubesat that will circle the globe at an altitude between 292 and 403...
China Launches Mission to Return First Samples From Moon's Elusive Far Side
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA Chinese probe is on its way to the far side of the Moon to collect samples and drop them off at...
Harnessing Sunbeams for Space Travel: NASA’s Solar Sail Mission Successfully Phones Home
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoNASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has successfully established communication with ground...
Satellite Rediscovered in Space After Being Lost for 25 Years
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIn our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie describes the rediscovery of a satellite lost...
Rocket Lab pushes back Neutron debut to 2025
SpaceNews· 18 hours agoAs Rocket Lab prepares to begin tests of the first Archimedes engine for its Neutron launch vehicle, the company says that the rocket won’t be ready for...
NASA solar sail boom demonstrator reaches orbit
The Register· 6 days agoEngineers established two-way communication with the spacecraft a few days after launch as the microwave oven-sized CubeSat passed over the ground hub...