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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 Solar Sail Spacecraft Damaged, Spinning Through Space
Still Tumbling NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), a dazzling spacecraft that is designed to exclusively make ...
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NASA's solar-sailing spacecraft has a bent boom and is still tumbling in Earth orbit (photo)
NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout cubesat launched as a rideshare on the Artemis 1 moon mission in November 2022. NEA Scout was supposed to sail its way to an asteroid, but mission team members never ...
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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 ...
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NASA Says Bent Solar Sail Should Not Affect Experimental Spacecraft
This vehicle could help NASA learn how to harness the Sun's limitless energy to sail through the vacuum of space—if it works.
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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’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 one of the poles that extends along the spacecraft’s wings ...