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NASA’s Solar Sail Mission Successfully Deployed after Initial Glitch
NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has successfully deployed its solar sail, marking a significant achievement in ...
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These Space Sails, Built in 24 Hours, Could Enable Fast Interplanetary Missions!
A recent breakthrough in nanotechnology could drastically accelerate the timeline of future space missions. Scientists from ...
Science News5d
‘Star Wars’ holds clues to making speedier spacecraft in the real world
A spacecraft traveling at one-tenth of the speed of light could shave the trip down to a quick 40 years. Future engineers could use nuclear power to achieve that, says Scott Bailey, an engineer at ...
The Debrief8d
Lightsails That Can Travel 20% of The Speed of Light Move Closer to Reality
A new method for manufacturing lightsails that can reach up 20% of the speed of light is making the technology look more ...
Improved lightsails to take spaceships to other stars
Lightsails should enable space missions to other stars. Researchers from the USA and the Netherlands have significantly ...
Hackaday5y
Tacking Against The Sun: Flying A Batteryless Solar RC Plane Is Almost Like Sailing
Since the thrust of the motor is directly proportional ... into the Hackaday prize as well as an actual seafaring solar powered unmanned sail boat that crossed the North Atlantic.
Korea1mon
New solar sail can propel spacecraft without power source
on Feb. 13 said it developed and demonstrated the prototype of a solar sail deployment device. Since June last year, KARI has studied technology for solar diffraction propulsion for navigating ...