News: Japan Space Agency and th Planetary Society have Two Solar Sail Missions for 2010

Next Big Future has an article mentioning: "... Software Lightsail, a project of The Planetary Society, will merge the ultra-light technology of nanosats with the ultra-large technology of solar sails setting a course to the stars. IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) is a solar sail which gathers sunlight as ..."

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