News: Japan Set to Send "Solar Sail" into Space

CBS News has an article mentioning: "... Next month, Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to send a craft - actually it's more of a solar sail - into space with name of Ikaros. ("Ikaros"is an acronym for "Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun.) The Ikaros, which will ..."

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