Wednesday, April 23, 2008

News: Finnish Electric Solar Sail Nears Implementation

Slashdot has an article mentioning: "... on June 21. Cosmos 1 will be the first non-governmental spaceship that makes use of solar sails as main propulsion mechanism - it is pushed along by light particles from the Sun, instead of bringing its fuel along for the ride - which ..."

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