News: Welsom Space Consortium: Solar Space Power From Megawatts to Gigawatts

Next Big Future has an article mentioning: "... with a slow, controllable speed of about 1 meter per minute. This deployment technology has been demonstrated by deploying a 400 m**2 (20 m square) solar sail in a vacuum environment at the NASA Plum Brook Facility. The technology is envisioned to provide a highly reliable rigidization structure ..."

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