NASA’s Pioneering Solar Sail Hits a Snag While Tumbling in Space
After deploying four composite booms on board the experimental solar sail mission, NASA engineers observed a slight bend in ...
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NASA's solar-sailing spacecraft has a bent boom and is still tumbling in Earth orbit (photo)
The technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has a bent boom in Earth orbit, but NASA says it shouldn't ...
NASA's Building A Solar Sail To Propel Space Exploration
NASA's futuristic solar sail technology prototype is getting ready to launch to space this year. Like a sail on the ocean ...
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NASA’s $20,000,000 spaceship has malfunctioned and is out of control hurtling through space
A $20,000,000 spacecraft launched by NASA earlier this year is now tumbling uncontrollably through space after suffering a ...
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NASA Solar Sail Spacecraft Damaged, Spinning Through Space
NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), a dazzling spacecraft designed to make use of the tiny amounts of radiation pressure exerted by sunlight for propulsion, is still spinning through ...
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A Photon-Propelled Spacecraft
NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail experiment, launched in April, aims to fix that. Instead of using chemical engines to maneuver and accelerate, it uses a solar sail—a large metallic film ...
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NASA Says Bent Solar Sail Should Not Affect Experimental Spacecraft
NASA's experimental Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is different, though. This vehicle could help NASA learn how to harness the Sun's limitless energy to sail through the vacuum of ...
Tumbling in Orbit: NASA’s Test of Advanced Solar Sail Technology Encounters Early Challenges
NASA's mission to advance solar sail technology through the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has shown promising signs, despite slight complications. The team is focused on collecting data to ...
NASA Grapples With Unexpected Glitch On Its First Solar Sail Spacecraft; Here's What Happened
While NASA revealed that the data gathered since the sail deployment is proving to highly valuable, it added, "The mission team predicts the slight bend in one of the four booms will not inhibit the ...
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NASA's solar-sailing spacecraft has a bent boom and is still tumbling in Earth orbit (photo)
NASA's technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has a bent boom in Earth orbit, a newly released photo shows. The ACS3 spacecraft launched April 23 to test key aspects ...
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NASA Solar Sail Spacecraft Damaged, Spinning Through Space
NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), a dazzling spacecraft designed to make use of the tiny amounts of radiation pressure exerted by sunlight for propulsion, is still spinning ...