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Solar Sail Spacecraft Could Explore Beyond Solar System
Space.com
In May, the Japanese Space Exploration Agency successfully launched IKAROS, the first-ever spacecraft to use a solar sail for propulsion in space. ...
Exploring Outside the Solar System Possible with Solar Sails Softpedia
Space ribbon deployed to surf Earth's magnetic field New Scientist

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Sakku.Traveler is a Stylish Solar Bag Made from Recycled Sails!
Inhabitat (blog)
We've brought you news about the IKAROS solar sail spacecraft before, and now the time has finally come for it to take flight! That's right, Please keep ...

msnbc.com

Solar sail spacecraft steers with sunlight for first time
msnbc.com
Japan's Ikaros spacecraft is the vanguard of solar sail propulsion. It launched in May 2010 and is shown here in June in photos snapped by a small camera ...
International Solar Sail Experts Meet at City Tech to Discuss Advances in ... Newswise (press release)
A milestone for solar sailing The Space Review

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Will Solar Sails Lead Us to Space Sea Monsters?
Gearlog (blog)
That's why NASA engineers are all set to test their version of a "solar sail" called the NanoSail-D this fall. The concept of a solar sail has been around ...
Sailing Among The Stars Space Daily
NASA Set to Launch Solar NanoSail into Space Inhabitat (blog)
What Is This? Gizmodo Australia

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Solar sails could allow new orbits for satellites
Tehran Times
Solar sails could be used on satellites to levitate them above the crowd of objects circling Earth and into orbital paths that have never been used, ...

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Hoop sails: an interstellar possibility?
io9
When engineer Carl Wiley brought solar sails to a wide audience in 1951, he envisioned a particular kind of sail. Wiley, who wrote under the byline Russell ...

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NASA... Star Sailing
SatNews Publishers
[SatNews] Making the stuff of science fiction into reality, NASA engineers are testing solar sails â€” a unique propulsion technology that one day could ...

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Japan in first public presentation on sailing in space
Sail World
The Second International Symposium on Solar Sailing has been treated to the first public presentation of details of the flight of this first-ever solar sail ...

Next giant leaps for NASA tech
msnbc.com (blog)
Heck, you could even talk about solar sails or ion drives. "We need an in-space propulsion system, and you could imagine a number of advanced technologies, ...

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Star Wars? Not at NASA
io9
This is not to say that potential near-term technologies like solar sails may not be revived within the agency - the NASA solar sail is up to a ...